The class was about happiness and it was mostly about two things, the way to become happy and how happy we are. We were able to learn how we can be more happier than now and how happy we are right now by calculating happiness based on the way scientists have invested. By seeing the result, I realized what we can improve to live a happier life.
In the discussion session, we talked what is the most difficult thing for us to do in our daily life and why these elements raised in the article is important. We concluded that those are the elements we are likely to forget in our daily life and that is why it’s important.
However, after reading the article, I was thinking about this topic and wondering “is this article really true?”
I do agree that there are some elements what we really need in order to live a satisfactory life like enough money and comfortable place to live in. However, I disagree that we can calculate how happy we are and how we can become much happier by following some ways that the other found. I think this way because I believe what make us feel satisfied or happy is different from people to people.
I read an interesting article during the summer vacation. It was about a young Chinese boy. He was raised by a rich family so his father made him live in the countryside for a month to make him realize how good environment that he usually have. However, what he realized after a month made us, including his father surprised. He said he was able to realized how much electricity he used to relay on and he didn’t had enough conversation. Moreover, he mentioned that he was able to realized how poor he were. This was a total opposite thing that his father imagined. From this article, I was able to learn what the adults believe is not always true and what rich people have doesn’t always mean they have more than those who don’t have enough wealth. The content of the article itself was interesting for me and this gave me a great opportunity to really think of what is a happiness to me and how I can de
fine them.
