Monday, March 15, 2010

Happiness

Please answer the following questions in a detailed response. You must answer on your own and also write a comment to another person's response in your own response. Please write well keeping fluency and conventions in mind. You can also post questions to others to possibly answer.

What values are most important in your life? What is true happiness? What do you need to be happy? Is there a correlation between success, money and happiness? (What defines success?)

Please end by answering the following prompts: Ten years from now I will consider myself happy if.... AND True living is...

20 comments:

  1. Yes there is a correlation between success money and happiness. You can definitely still be happy and be considered successful without making the big money, but it will make life easier and most of the time more enjoyable if more money is made. I think anything can be true happiness. There is no specific guideline saying what should make people happy. If someone is satisfied with where they are in life then they are happy!

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  2. The values that are most important in my life are family and friends, God, making sure I pull my own weight and always striving to better myself. I think for one to be truly happy, you must have a purpose, and be satisfied with that purpose. What is the point of a life without purpose? It'd be like playing baseball but refusing to ever take a swing for the fences. You might get walked, but that's no fun. Some people think that they'd be the happiest person in the world if they just got to sit back and eat good food, and fall asleep for years on end. But that would become really monotonous to me, I couldn't handle being so stationary. In the simplest way I can say it, to be successful is to put in work and be happy with the result. Ten years from now I will consider myself happy if I have seen as much as I can see and done as much as I could have done. True living is to live with a purpose.

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  3. Values that are important to me consist of honesty, integrity, spirituality, loving, caring, loyalty, respectfulness, obedience, and hard work. For a human being, true happiness is a state of integrity, where all the parts of you fit together to form a whole and you have no internal conflict. You are not lying, cheating or stealing. You are not doing something you don't want to do, or holding back from doing something you do want to do. If you are in a state of integrity, you will feel joy, and this is what I mean by true happiness. What I need to be happy would be a loving relationship, be in good health, a job I enjoy, a great family, and an active lifestyle. Yes I think there is a correlation between success money and happiness in some people’s eyes. Some people want to make the money and not have to work and that will bring them the ultimate happiness. Others don’t find money to be an item that will bring them true happiness. I think we can all still be happy and be considered successful without making as much money as we would have liked to. Money will make life easier in the long run though. Ten years from now I will consider myself happy if I have a beautiful family, an enjoyable job, and good health.

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  4. Values that are important to me are honesty, trust, loyalty, and integrity. These are important to me because these are the most important values to have; I think this because if all people were to use these values then there would be less conflict. Yes I think success money and happiness has a direct correlation, I think this because people with money seem to be more successful and people who are successful seem to be more and happier. But what is happy? In my opinion I think to be happy you need to enjoy what you are doing and want to do what you do on a daily basis. Ten years from now i will consider myself happy if I am doing what I want and enjoying my life. What is a true living? I think this is to really have what you have earned for example someone who works so hard to get where they are, that’s a true living not someone who scams for money.

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  5. Values that are most important in my life are love, joy, honesty, purity, and of course God! I think true happiness is when you are satisfied with not only what you do in life, but also how you act and treat others. I was always taught to treat others the way I would want to be treated and I think this speaks volumes. I believe that if you truly care for others, make sacrafices for others, satisfied, and have God in your life walking with you, then you will be happy! In order for me to be happy I need people surrounding me that truly love and care about me. I'm not a girl who needs materialistic things I need the kindness from peoples hearts, their love, and God. I agree with Kelsey I think success, money, and happiness has a direct correlation to some people. But to me there are tons of people with a lot of money and are not happy and vise versa. I know that I'm the type that doesn't need a lot of money to be happy!

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  6. I agree with Nick that the most important values in life are trust, loyalty, and integrity. It is so important to be able to trust those close to you with your life, because to me, that is true friendship. Loyalty kind of goes along with trust in that without being loyal, you can never earn someone's trust. Integrity is so important because it is kind of like a self-check. If you practice integrity, you are honest with yourself and others, which helps your conscience.
    True happiness is when you can look at your life and be satisfied. It is when you are living without looking back, with regrets and sadness. I think in order to be happy, you need to be surrounded by those that make you happy. I do not mean materials, I mean someone you have a relationship with, whether it be friendship, family, or love.
    There is definitely a corrolation between success and happiness. The media and society will tell you that if and only if you have a lot of money, you are successful, but to me, the key is happiness. In life, our only purpose is to live and then die eventually. Why would we waste what little time we have being unhappy and worrying about money?

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  7. I believe that some of the most important values in life are: Integrity, self-discipline, and trust. Integrity is a very important value because; it is doing the right thing even when no one is looking. If you have no integrity, you will lose the trust of friends and those close to you. Also, if you have no integrity; you will have a bad conscience and past decisions will be hanging over your head. Self discipline is also very important; because you have to do the work even when on one is supervising you. If you have no self discipline, many people will consider you a slacker. If you are considered a slacker many people will think that you are not very valuable. Trust is also important because people have to believe in you and they have to count on you to do the right thing. True happiness to me is having a state of satisfaction with everything that you do. You have to always do the right thing and look back on the past and have no regrets with what you did. Success money and happiness defiantly have a connection. Many people associate the three together. But, I believe that happiness is the most important out of all three. Because if you are successful and have money coming out of your butt it all means nothing if you are happy. In my opinion, as long as you are happy that is all that counts in life.

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  8. I definitely have to agree with both Nick and Kelly about those important values. Many people should live by those. Trusting people these days can sometimes be hard but if you can be that person that everyone can count and rely on, then that's great. Integrity is very significant as well. Another thing that I think is critical is setting morals and standards for yourself. If you go on through life not having any beliefs or opinions on things, then that probably isn't good.
    Everyone has their own definition of happiness. For some people that could mean earning huge sums of money and buying the latest and greatest electronics. For some, it could be living on a farm or some rural area with a huge family who works 24/7 with little pay. It all depends. There is a direct correlation between success and happiness. Like Kelly said, the media is very influential on our lives. They tell us we need to be rich in order to live a successful life. Of course money is a good thing to have but it shouldn't be what the world revolves around. In ten years from now I will consider myself happy if I have a loving family and a fun job.

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  9. I believe that in life success is measured by the people who remember your name when your gone. I believe that if you have a positive influence on the people around you to the point when people remember your legacy even when your dead and gone, you must have done something right. I believe myselve and as long as i keep setting personal goals and achiving them happiness walks hand in hand with my happiness. like Kelly said i think that the media has made the american dream all about making money off of doing nothing snd partying all day every day and lets be honest that is not how life works. i know to be happy i must work for it, if i want to be successful i have to fight for it.

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  10. I agree with those who've said that true happiness is to live with integrity. I believe that you can not be happy in the world around you if you are not happy within yourself and pleased with the life you have lived. I do think that money and success correlate with happiness but only to a certain extent. In the future I would like to be able to provide for a family and my friends, provide them with good experiences. Some of these will cost money and will require success. In ten years I will consider myself happy if I have lived everyday without being bored of myself. If I continue to find little things that please me or challenge myself I will be happy. Similarly to Ryan, if I live each day doing everything I could have then I will consider myself lucky.

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  11. When living life some of the most valued values for me are trust, happiness and joy. True happiness is in my mind when you are fully satisfied with what your doing in life, it can be a moment when your desires are reached. It can happen at any time in a life and is defiantly a goal for a lot of people in life. To be happy i want to be surrounded with loving friends and family that make me want to wake up every morning with a smile on my face and just living the good life. In today's world there is most defently a drive for happiness with money and success. Some people desire money and being CEO of a fortune 500 company and they believe there true happiness is reached with the goals they set. This is not true for everyone but some people are driven by it. Ten years from now i will consider myself happy if im surrounded by loving people enjoying life doing stuff i love. True living is living life to the fullest enjoying every day like its your last.

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  12. Values in life that are most important to me are being honest, having integrity, loyalty, being loving, faith, and hard work. True happiness is very hard to define and is not the same for any one person. A person I believe can reach true happiness at any point in their life. For me true happiness will happen when I have accomplished all my goals in life, but only if I also have good friends and a loving family. Meeting my goals means nothing to me if it costs me friends and makes me more distant from my family it is not worth it. That is why I don’t agree with people that say that money means success because some people that have money spend all their time and energy trying to get more of it. They forget about things in life that are way more important than their job and family. That is why I don’t want a job that pays well, but takes up all my time. Success to me is not related to money because how will money help me on my death bed? I don’t want to die with regrets, whether it was spending too much time on my job, or losing friendships because of my job. Success to me is being happy with what I have achieved and not being so insecure that I think I have to achieve more to succeed. Ten years from now I will consider myself happy if I have good friends, a loving family, and have gotten over my insecurities and true living is not worrying about tomorrow but just living for today.

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  13. For me, true happiness is having inner peace. I like to know that at the end of each day I have done my best and tried my hardest. I want to live up to my values and everything I believe in. People can be happy without money and people with money can be unhappy so I don’t think there is really a correlation. When people get too caught up money and become greedy they lose out. Money is a priority to me but it is defiantly not at the top of my list. I would much rather enjoy myself with the people I love than worry about getting big money. This doesn’t mean I don’t value hard work, I do but money isn’t necessarily the most important thing I am working towards. Ten years from now I will be happy if I am surround by people I love, doing the things I love and hopefully I leave this world a little better than I found it.

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  14. There are many values that are important to me like God, and the morals he gives us, and honesty is a very important one to many. I try to always be honest even though it may cause people to be mad at me; I expect people to be honest back. I agree with Kelly and Nick, on the basis of trust. I think you need to have some trust, some faith. I don't think money makes you happier I think it just makes life easier. I think happiness is measure by how each person looks at life.You can choose to let the bad things in life get you down or you can brush them off and move on. In ten years I will consider myself happy if I am doing something that I love, with people that I love, and my life is headed in the right direction.True living is expeireincing the world and all it has to offer.

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  15. There are many aspects of our lives and beliefs that can tell other people who we are. However, it is a few core values that remain consistent and truly define us. The values that I find most important to me in life are honesty, courage, kindness, and my most important value is sacrifice. I believe that being willing to sacrifice for others creates the strongest bonds possible. I feel that my duty as a person is to make the worlds of fellow people a better place. When someone works hard for me, it is my duty to work even harder for them. I think that true happiness varies from person to person. Although it is sad to think so, some people require material possessions in order to be happy. I believe though that with most people this is not the case. Happiness can be found following your dreams and doing the things that you love most in this world. There can be a correlation between success, money,and happiness, but only if money is something that a person strives for. I believe that success and happiness can be tied together more often. Success to me is simply being satisfied with the accomplishments that you have made in life. You and you alone can judge your own success. Ten years from now I will consider myself happy if I have followed my dreams and truly enjoy what I am doing with my life without wishing for anything else. True living is following your dreams and doing what it is that you truly want to do in this world.

    Response: I really like what Amanda has to say about inner peace. I think that this goes along with my point about being satisfied with life in that you can achieve inner peace through satisfaction. Also, I like when Nick talks about trust. Although I forgot to include this in my passage I think that this is a very important value. You must be able to trust others and trust is an extremely valuable and difficult value to build up, but yet can be easily destroyed.

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  16. the things that i value most in life are the usual stuff like friends and family. but i also value the way i live and of course skiing.i think true happiness is when you have no worries because you have no problems. true happiness for me is living in the mountains being a ski bum, but with just enough money to have a roof over my head and dinner every night.to be happy you need enough money, but not to much to make you corrupt. you also need good friends and a family that may have some flaws, but you get together and have fun every no and then.i think there is a correlation between success, money and happiness. if you have money, then you are successful and happy, unless you have to much money then you become corrupt and you lose all of your good friends and your family just pretends to like you for your money. Ten years from now I will consider myself happy if i am living in the mountains with a good job, but skiing every day with my friends and not being a total loser where i cant afford food on the table and some kind of roof over my head. True living is what i just described for me, but for the average person today true living is having a good family, having wealth, and not having to worry about the bills this month.

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  17. To me, the most important values in life are self-sufficiency, intellectualism, creativity, reason, and liberty. True happiness is the fulfillment of one's goals in life while adhering to those values and ideals one holds most dear. I would need to achieve the above definition in order to be happy. I agree with Mrs. Comp in that money is not necessary to be considered successful or to lead a happy life, but that it can make life easier. To my mind, money is a means unto and end, not the end itself. There is a correlation between success and happiness (success is, I believe, the achievement of happiness), but there is not necessarily a correlation between money and the other two. I will consider myself happy in ten years if I have met my own aspirations and achieved my goals while holding true to my values. True living is just that: completing one's goals while remaining true to one's convictions; in other words, being happy.

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  18. I feel the things that matter most in life are freedom, spirituality, and love. These are the most important to me because I wouldn't be able to do the things that I enjoy doing if I didn't have the freedom that we have here in the United States. People can be truely happt when they have freesom to do what they like. I have a freedom to do what ever I want to and to acheive what ever I want and that makes me happy. Success if often measured by how well you do in life and how much money you can get a certain amount of time. I think that the real meaning of success is if you do your best in every aspect of your life and you feel proud of what you have done. I think that there can definitely be a correlation between money, success and happiness. It kind of saddens me though because people only strive to get as much money as they can and they don't live for anything else. Whereas, if you were to work really hard and be able to support your family then you are have a worthy. Ten years I will consider mysekf happy if I still have lots of friends, I have graduated from college, and maybe if I have a wife. True living is giving everything that you have in everything you do, and if we do this we cannot possibly fail.

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  19. Personally i measure my sucess by happines and abundance. I believe if i am going to consider myself a sucesssful, happy person later in life i have to have status at least among fellow peers as someone who is that person whom everyone looks up to. But it's not just material things and status that lead to true happiness. True happiness has to be found, not taken, and it is also very hard to define. Clear thinking and level headedness is what i consider to be the key to true happiness. Ten years from now i will consder myself happy if i have a family and can support them with absoultley no problems financially, physically or mentally. True happiness is a clear, present mind.

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  20. True happiness is doing something you love with the people you love. It's enjoying life to the fullest and not letting other people put you down or control your life. Happiness isn't based on how much money you have, how many friends you have or how many things you have, it's not accepting or doing anything in your life that you do not enjoy. Ten years from now I will consider myself happy if I truly enjoy my job and life overall, I do not want to waste my time on anything I do not love. True living is not letting other people and their actions control your life, it's when you completely control your life and happiness to the best of your ability.

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