assignment 2, 2nd draft Song Minhee

Song Minhee (200804046)                            

English Writing  

4 July 2010

Journey to Happiness

             If someone asks you to grade your happiness index, how many points will you give to yourself concerning happiness? If you did, what are your standards on happiness? I know it's hard to grade about invisible, emotional thing. Then why don't you make your own touchstones? Today, I will show you my touchstones on happiness through my experiences, which would be talking point. My happiness exists along with my own three canons which are identity, responsibility, and gratitude.

 

             In my life, more than once, I asked myself who I am. I didn't realize why such a question is so important all over the world until 2007 when is my most meaningful year. Even though I slipped to enter a university, I believed myself to handle everything under any circumstances. Even if it may be so, I felt weird to live a little bit different life from friends. I've lived for 19years with belonging to somewhere such as primary school, middle school, and high school like any other friends. After high school graduate, however, I belong to no where overnight. Looking back on it now, I slightly suffered from depression for a while because of stress from different life. And finally I found out who I am. The answer was I'm just a normal 20 years old girl as well as I'm thirsty for knowledge strongly. I was so happy to know what I want, what I want to be, and what I should do. Making identity clear is the first way to happiness.

 

             As you know, a university forces us to be adults whether we are ready to be or not. All things around us depend on our performances from deciding something to managing time. We don't have any place to get back. Then we have to face any challenges. Regardless of results, we should take challenges as themselves. I'm saying the more important thing is doing something with responsibility. When I worked at espresso bar, I felt pressures to manage the bar. But the reason I did great job was my responsibility. It was my responsibility that got over the burden. From now on, if you do something, you'd better have a great sense of responsibility. Then, without reference to its result, you deserve to feel happiness.

 

             In your daily life, how many times do you express your gratitude a day? I think the person who can't say 'thank you' is the unhappiest in the world. There are a huge number of persons who work for our daily lives. For instance, when you say hello or give thanks to bus driver, he will probably spend his day in happiness. And there are another large number of persons who want to live like your life. In some ways, we have privileges that we are here to study English with the well-educated native professor in freezing spacious room in hot summer. In other words, I could take happiness in my daily life, even though my ordinary feeling might be special to others. Give thanks for everything.

 

             What do you think of my three standards? Did I argue about too trivial matters? I think the happiness is just one thing out of our whole life. I mentioned only three things which make me happy: identity, responsibility, gratitude, even if you could add more. Creating happiness is conditional on how you do. And we may keep travel to happiness as we did during last thousands years. In the mean time, try to make yourself happy, because it is possible that happiness is contagious. Then people around you would also be happy.