Perez 1 ‘Andrea Perez “ yet N Professor Ditch ss ‘ English 113B oO (° vy 24 February 2020 5 ne ys f po v \s how you feel emotionally. Happiness can eit from living a lavish life i ‘nean fully changing your life style, by going © y fort and happiness in living in a 420 i balance to. Sonja Lyubomirsky, David Brooks, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, al space-E > ' san ta 6 LES Dalai Lama and Cutler, and Brooks focus more on changing your internal feelings in order to all focus on intemal space while Graham Hill focuses more on: achieve happiness, while Hill focuses more on minimalizing and changing his exomi thee w) in order for him to achieve happiness: (hia og ee J () / Growing up many people fd in eee in life, People who had a tougher \ Atildhood are happier than those who had it easier in life. Many people can go from having the 4 perfect life to all ofa sudden growing up and not feel anymore happiness, but others can go through the hard struggles in life and be happier than ever. Inthe article “How happy are you and Up \' why?” by Sonja Lyubomirsky she talks about why someone who has nothing to complain or ie struggle about in life is more unhappy than someone who had the worst childhood experiences. She gives real life experiences that make her believe happiness is internal; she talks about how { Scanned with CamScannerPerez 2 many people can go through challenges in life they come out being the happiest and most content with their life’s, while others who didn’t go through challenges are now struggling with finding that happiness. This shows that itis all about the mentality and headspace you put yourself in, and it makes you look at the bigger picture. Lyubomirsky says “happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that itis not out there is that it is inside us.” (Lyubomirsky(147) This means our happiness is not something you go look for out in the world, but rather it i$ something that you have to search inside of you. Lyubomirsky suggests that even though people might believe . that their happiness can be found in buying new homes, cars it ultimately is about ~— deep inside of you and finding out what truly makes you happy. Lyubomirsky states “there is me happiness without action” (Lyubomirsky{157), she is saying that if you do not change yo i mentality or your course of emotion “a not be fully happy in your life. In order for you to find happiness you have to take initiative/action and do something to make yourself happier which would be to change your mentality. Most people think that happiness will og come to you, but in reality, you have to search for ieee Sonja yubomisy suggests we g 15 hl prOri “or many people striving for happiness is something they all look for Most of the time search inter happiness. ‘you have to get through the bad things in life, before you experience the good; and overcoming that would make you stronger and happier. In the article “What Suffering Does” by David Brooks he states that “people shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering” (Brooks, 226), what Brooks suggests is many people believe that because they have gone through tough times in their life they will never be happy and they let that take over their mentality which would lead them to think they'll never find happiness. It is normal to have that struggle because, everyone goes through it; but it is how you get through it that will show your growth in finding ie te \Ay, ~ \ vt Vp Prat tet Scanned with CamScannerpees \\\ internal happiness. Brooks states “... trying to redeem something bad by turning it into if something sacred...” (Brooks, 228) meaning the struggle you went through emotionally can be \ tured into something sacred and valuable like knowing you overcame that and have started to find your happiness. Many people feel ashamed that they went through that tough time in their life, but it can always be tumed around and be seen as overcoming it and finding the right ways to become happy inteally. Brooks gives different examples of people who struggled for a long time, but eventually found happiness by it. Showing how parents who lost their child due to things they can not control would start up foundations to support those causes, or how Lincoln sacrificed himself for the Union. All these examples show how although they went through that struggle, they overcame it and found some sort of happiness by changing the way they think and see things. Brooks states “Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people do not come out healed; they come out different.” (Bropks, 228) What Brooks means by Tine heme fiw Onna Qe but i makes them see life in different perspective )bw Om pool L, / When you are living your everyday life, you may think that having, ernie Kamar ~— \aal your craving for happiness, but in reality, that pleasure is only temporary and true ( \ happiness is long term. In the article “The Source of Happiness” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama pl Howard Cutler, they state “happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by Ki yf ( id if you are not emotionally content or happy than all that money would not be worth events.” (The Dalai-Eama-and Cutler, 16) Although you may have all the money in the anything, Being in the right head space is more important than having all the luxurious things in ( the world, The Dalai Lama and Cutler also say that people confuse happiness with pleasure like sex, where that physical pleasure is just temporary, but happiness is forever (The Dalai Lama and Scanned with CamScannerPerez 4 Cutler, 24). What they mean by this is that although you think that pleasure is real happiness, it . ‘wears off and what actually matters is your intemal happiness, The Dalai Lama and Cutler also Rot give an example about a man who has AIDS he says “ I feel happier than I ever have, Ijust sem i to appreciate everyday things more” (The Dalai Lama and Cutler, 16) showing that although this A rman has a disease, he is happier than he was before because, he appreciate things more showing 7 Ba how his happiness is determined by his internal space. The Dalai Lama and Cutler want people : \ \ to see how happiness doesn’t have to be about having pleasure, or all the money in the world but ct more about how you feel on the inside and your way of viewing life in a different way \ ‘When you have so much going on in your busy life and you are very successful, you may y feel like you are happy with all the materialistic items you have. But sometimes all the external - objects you have might not satisfy you mentally or emotionally which can lead you to not feel Y happiness. Inthe article “Living with Less. A lot Less.” by Graham Hill he states “My lifeis ve unnecessarily complicated.” (Hill, 255) Hillis a very suocessful man, but he wasn’t satisfied \ with how he lived his life or how he felt emotionally; he felt as if so many things in his life were f very complicated for no reason, Hill decided he wanted to completely change that. He went from ha / living in a luxurious 3,600 square foot home to living in avery small and minimalistic 420 vy { square foot home. He had a huge home and decided that fhe can change the extemal space of aN his life, he can happier. Hill argues that “my space is small, but my life is big” (Hill, 258) which Uf i when he lived in such a huge home. This shows how even though he is not living in a huge 1 thas helped “ means that although he is living in such a tiny home, he feels much happier than how he felt home, he finds happiness in living in a smaller home. By Hill changifg his exter him find happiness. Hil felt like living such a big life was too much for him ant{knew that itdid\ fe ek k i. tk eA! Scanned with CamScannerPerez 5 not make it happy so he changed his exterior and made it so his life would be simpler and less complicated ‘Happiness can be interpreted in different ways; it can be by extemally moving every unnecessary item in your life like getting a smaller home, or getting rid of your cars. And it can also mean intemally overcoming your struggles in life, or being in the right head space to make you feel happiness. Brooks, The Dalai Lama and Cutler, and Lyubomirsky all focus on the internal space in happiness by showing how you can overcome obstacles intemally and by showing growth, while Hill argues on extemal space in happiness by showing that having too many things can make it very overwhelming and unnecessary, so by cutting that out you'll find happiness. Scanned with CamScannerPerez 6 Works Cited Brooks, David. “What Suffering Does.” Pursing Happiness, edited by Matthew Parfitt, Dawn Skorezewski, 2020, pp.226-229. Hill, Graham. “Living with Less. A lot Less.” Pursing Happiness, edited by Matthew Parfitt, Dawn Skorczewski, 2020, pp.254-258. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler. “The Sources of Happiness.” Pursing Happiness, edited by Matthew Parfitt, Dawn Skorczewski, 2020, pp.15-27. Lyubomirsky, Sonja. “How Happy Are You and Why.” Pursing Happiness, edited by Matthew Skorezewski, 2020, pp.141-158. 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