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An Essay On Happiness by: Taylor-James Gilard One essential standard for living is being able to be happy. Happiness can be found in many different forms. It can be found with the purchasing of inanimate objects that better our living styles or it can be found with someone else that you associate with. The latter is the more imperative of the designs of happiness. In order to be truly happy you need to be able to understand that everything is good within your own life and that you are able to be happy with the people that are in your life and the people that influence how you live your daily life. Happiness is all of the good that someone experiences combined into one emotion. This emotion can, and usually does, bring out the best in people. For someone to be happy they need to know that everything that has happened in their past has happened for a reason and that it has happened in order for them to become a better person. Not only does it make them a better person but it also makes them realize how good they have it or can possibly have it. Although things might be hard to deal with at the moment, people need to realize that they will be able to learn from their experiences and that they will learn to take the good from them all. In the end, the hard times will help people strive for happiness. Happiness isn't free. You have to earn it and work to keep it. The price for happiness is having to suffer and having to question events that occur during one's life. People need to be able to adapt to their surroundings so that they can get the best out of them. You can't live your life in fear of what can go wrong. You just need to go out and live your life to the fullest and know that you'll be happy, even if something doesn't go the way that you had planned it to. The best kind of happiness is when you know that you are able to care for someone and that they may care about you. They may just be your friends but you care about them enough that you want what is best for them and in return they want the same for you. This kind of happiness is of the purest form. It is an unspoken agreement between people that says that each of you will do whatever they can to make the other person happy and that in this process you, yourself, will be able to be happy and enjoy the moment. Happiness may come and go like the seasons but in the end, every moment that you have that is filled with happiness will be well worth the sad or unnerving ones that you have had to endure.

Malaysia terkenal dengan keunikannya yang mempunyai penduduk berbilang kaum namun hidup rukun damai sejak kemerdekaannya 52 tahun lalu. Inilah yang menjadi resepi dan pemangkin ke arah pencapaian kejayaan negara. Sebagai rakyat yang prihatin, di bahu kitalah tergalasnya tanggungjawab untuk mengekalkan keharmonian ini. Di antara kepentingan memelihara perpaduan kaum ialah untukmewujudkan suasana kehidupan bermasyarakat yang aman dan harmoni. Semangat saling menghormati dan memahami antara satu sama lain mampu mengelak sebarang perasaan negatif seperti hasad dengki, pentingkan diri sendiri dan lainlain. Hubungan baik yang terjalin erat bukan sahaja menjadi asas kehidupan yang tenteram bahkan juga memakmurkan negara. Sebagai contoh, setelah melewati setengah abad negara Malaysia mencapai kemerdekaan, telah banyak perubahan positif yang berlaku. Malah negara malaysia juga sudah terkenal sebagai sebuah negara membangun. Selain itu, kehidupan yang harmoni juga merupakan jambatan utama menuju kemajuan. Negara yang sejahtera membolehkan rakyatnya mengambil peluang meningkatkan taraf hidup. Semua pihak dapat berganding bahu memikul tugas masing-masing tanpa sebarang perasaan syak wasangka. Hasilnya, negara kita akan membangun dengan stabil merangkumi segenak aspek kehidupan. Pembangunan pesat negara kita setanding dengan negara-negara maju di dunia. Menyedari kepentingan perpaduan kaum maka beberapa langkah yang efisien perlu dijalankan bagi mengekalkannya. Antara lain, kerajaan telah mewujudkan Sekolah Wawasan. Konsep sekolah wawasan ini adalah untuk memelihara perpaduan kaum yang dipupuk sejak awal lagi iaitu dalam kalangan kanakkanak. Institusi pendidikan dengan corak perpaduan kaum ini membantu masyarakat untuk saling mengenali dan menghormati kebudayaan serta adat resam kaum-kaum yang lain. Hal ini secara tuntasnya menjamin kestabilan negara dengan adanya hubungan yang erat di antara kaum. Selain itu, kemakmuran negara yang wujud dengan resepi perpaduan ini juga adalah hasil daripada matlamat misi dan visi negara. Sebagai contoh, kerajaan melancarkan Dasar Ekonomi baru dan Wawasan 2020. Cetusan visi para pemimpin ini menyemarakkan lagi usaha mengekalkan perpaduan kaum. Ini jelas dibuktikan dengan konsep keadilan dari segi memperolehi kekayaan. Semua kaum berpeluang menceburi bidang ekonomi mengikut kemahiran dan usaha masing-masing. Kesannya, kestabilan dari segi ekonomi turut memperkembangkan kemajuan negara sehingga menjadi contoh kepada negara jiran iaitu Indonesia. Kesimpulannya, kemajuan dan kemakmuran sesebuah negara itu amat bergantung pada hubungan baik yang terjalin antara masyarakat. Perumpaan; bersatu teguh, bercerai roboh begitu sinonim dengan usaha mengekalkan perpaduan kaum demi kesejahteraan hidup .