The Pursuit of Happiness
Happiness, otherwise known as coming home from a long day to freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, or staring at that super popular girl who sits in front of you and wishing you had her life. What if it was more than that? What if it was real? What if you didn’t need those cookies or that girl’s life to be happy? When you think of happiness, you often think of something that fills a void, but does anyone ever stop to ask why there’s a void in the first place? Why is there always something to fix? I think that we create those voids for ourselves and stuff them with everything else to be “happy.” I believe happiness is being able to indeed be happy without anything or anyone pleasing you in any way. I believe that to be one of the most important values. To start off, I find happiness to be the center of life, without it, everything seems meaningless. Everything I am, say, and do is because that is my choice. No one controls it unless I give it to them, but it’s not mine to take from othe...