Portfolio Paper 3

The New American Webster Dictionary defines happiness as a sense of joy, being positive, glad satisfied and pleased. I completely agree with this definition. Happiness is about giving as well as receiving and doing what makes yourself happy. An example of this would be at Christmas, you buy people gifts which makes them feel good which in turn makes yourself feel good. Why? Because like I mentioned happiness is about pleasing. When you do something that gives someone else joy or makes them put a smile on their face, it satisfies you in it’s own strange way. I define happiness as joy, excitement, fun and pleasurable. Happiness is something that I love and something that makes me feel good about myself. Happiness is also about helping others be happy. For example, say you have a person in one of your classes, a friend, a relative or something who always seems to be depressed, when you make that person feel good and smile it makes you feel very relieved and satisfied. It sends such a joyous feeling through your body and makes you feel like you did something right for a change. Giving some sort of happiness is one of the best feelings in the world and is something that is almost impossible to describe. Something simple like giving your old clothes away to charity think about how many people you are helping and how good it makes you feel. It makes you feel good because your doing something for someone else, you are providing for someone else, helping them. Happiness is the best feeling that there is. It can help you out so many ways and is something you can rub off on other people, such as when you have kids. If you stay happy it can help you become more confident about yourself and can help you in your career, school, and making friends. So many people look for happiness in others which is why I believe that happiness is the most important characteristic in someone. Who wants to be around someone who is always negative saying “God this sucks!” or “I HATE coming to school.” Regardless if you think those thoughts or not, by saying them out loud you are making everyone else feel negative or have negative thoughts in their head which is something you really don’t want. You always want to stay as positive as you can and if your happy and look at the good things in life you can do that. I believe that happiness is the key of life.