Happiness. Happiness is an emotion that is like a security blanket. People use it to conceal their other emotions that they want to keep inside or covered. Happiness is a feeling that never remains through and through. Happiness is that temporary rush that can make you smile from ear to ear. Happiness is a multitude of things, each unique person by person, but in all reality, what is happiness? There are things that make me happy, such as playing the piano, spending time with my dogs, and seeing my friends, however they all have one thing in common. They are temporary. One day I won’t be able to play piano, one day my dogs will die, and one day I won’t have the same friends. Happiness is something that comes and goes, without a definitive definition.
Mother Teresa once said, “The material poverty of the East is nothing compared to the spiritual poverty of the West.” Mother Teresa’s quote points out one of the major flaws our society focuses on today. Material things in life do not assure happiness. In the documentary Happy, the rickshaw driver who worked in the heat and rain of monsoon and made just enough money to afford his family constantly kept a smile on his face and was grateful and content with what he had.
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Someone envied by the whole town, smiling, and never suspected of feeling down or depressed can hide secrets. A wealthy, intelligent, dapper man who seems to have life and happiness wrapped around his finger, “one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head.” Loneliness and lack of love cannot be cured with money. Poverty can be solved with money, but spiritual and emotional poverty can’t. Even if people seem to have everything and are envied because of it, they can still suffer from spiritual and emotional