Happiness Definition Essay

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The definition of happiness in the Webster Dictionary “feeling pleasure and enjoyment because of your life, situation, etc.” This is what we think happiness is, its right. We all have felt the feeling of being happy. We love it, most of us want to be happy all the time. Then, there's Unhappiness/sadness, the worst thing ever. Unhappiness is when you see a love one cry, It feels like as if someone took everything inside you and emptiness is left . Unhappiness comes unexpectedly no matter what. In my opinion this article is right. Don’t pursuit happiness, happiness will go to you. In my childhood my father told me that if i go to school and i’ll go to a great college, i will have a great paying job. I will have a happy family. I am now 15 and honestly i hate the phrase “ pursue your own happiness”. It all started around june 2015. My sister is graduating she was in avid hoping she could go to college, then start working and end up going to Seoul, south korea to meet her true love, get married, have kids. she was pursuing her own happiness, worked until 5:00 a.m. to finish homework, very stressed sometimes she wouldn’t eat,she couldn’t go to sleep at night. I remember her running into our room and telling me her dream school that was …show more content…

My sister asked our parents my dad told my her that she could get a loan from the bank, then my dad remembers that my mom is already in debt she can’t sign on it. My mom tells her “i can’t pay for you right now after going to disneyland and the broken windows . My sister starts to cry and tells my mom is a broken voice ”mom how about i don’t go to college?”. my mom breaks into tears as well telling me and my sister ” i’m sorry that you guys were born poor, i’m sorry, i’m sorry, i’m so sorry, i didn’t work hard enough to make you guys happy”. Even now i can remember those words so