Happiness

What is happiness? To me its chocolate cake after a good meal or spending time with my family also sports have always made me happy. In “What Makes Us Happy” Joshua states that things that lead to more happiness is healthy mature way of living where you, work out occasionally and eat healthier, and you got to work for happiness. Which I can see when people eat healthy food they feel good so it ends up making them happy along with working out for your own self image.  I know that when I eat healthier I feel good and I do feel happy but that is short term. I know how to be happy in short term sense such as I go play volleyball with friends and I am happy at that moment. But not in the long term people have to work for there idea of happiness and those who really have to work for seem to be happier. When I was working to achieve a higher spot on the tennis team at my high school I had to work to become better so that I could raise up in the ranks. That strive made me really happy, because I ended up making it into the top six but I also knew I had more to work on if I wanted to get to the top which thrilled me. In Joshua’s article he experimented on men to better understand them completely. So what I have gotten out of these articles is that to find happiness you have to work for it, eating right and working out occasionally. Which makes sense, if I don’t move and do something it can cause people to feel depressed. That is why it is a good idea to do something for an hour.