How was your day today? Anything good happen? Do those things give happiness to you and was it good enough to describe happiness? According to the factual meaning, happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. As for me, happiness is when I unexpectedly get something that I really craving on, or without I realize I achieve something so big in my life that make my parents smile at me and proud of having me as their daughter.
However, the meaning of happiness can be different with others. Bertrand Russell state in his book “The Conquest of Happiness” that happiness can be categorized to those who are educated and those who are not. In the article it says that, people who have low academic level expect that the smallest things which happen towards them are their happiness. Maybe they think it is the best thing that could happen as long as it could cheer their life. But for others, they might think it is too simple to be describes as happiness.
On the other side, the happiness of any human being and those who can read or write it is totally different. The happiness for highly educated sections is far harder to be expected for example, the artist. The result of their art is far more important to the public compared to them. In fact, if the public could not understand the meaning from the result, it is a bad sign for them as they tend to live their life to satisfy others’ feelings.
As for me I do not agree of what the author has wrote about. First of all, how can we differentiate the happiness between the educated and uneducated people? Do we have our rights to do such things? I honestly think that everyone deserve their own happiness. Even as a human being, we have our own rights to feel every moment of happiness in our life. We simply cannot distinguish between human happiness from the low literacy level to the highest. If it is still happen, the gap of thoughts and life of both these level is high. Secondly, I do not understand why people willing to sacrifice their own happiness for others? Shouldn’t they think their own feelings first? It is nature of our life that they cannot satisfy or make everyone happy whereas we are the one that suffering inside. As what I had stated, I think that everyone deserve their own happiness no matter how they define it since they had their rights towards it. Also, in our life do not simply assume that people willingly to make you happy or satisfy you especially in today’s world where not all things can happen.
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