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One might think feeling good all the time makes you feel happy all the time but, really that is wrong. Acacia Parks has a PhD in health and is researching about what makes people happy. “ . . . an even-keeled mood is more psychologically healthy than a mood in which you achieve great heights of happiness regularly—after all, what goes up must come down,” (“Happify Daily”). People in many cases think money buys happiness, that is true if you are not living in poverty, but anything after the amount of money needed to live doesn’t necessarily make you happier. “Imagine you unexpectedly get a $10,000/year raise. While you would certainly be excited in the short term, it would only be a matter of time before your expectations change to fit your new budget,” (Parks). This shows how once money buys that one material possession someone wanted so bad, their lifestyle changes and adapts to it. Then suddenly they seem equally as happy or less happy as before or after they buy it.
People can either except it or not there is not one point or final destination in life where you suddenly just become happy. Happiness doesn’t come when you want it to come, and it doesn’t stay when you want it to stay either. Yes becoming happy for some people may be getting a raise, or buying a new house, but once they adapt to that lifestyle and go on with life it seems as if nothing changed, they are still the same before and after. There is not just one boundary/ point in life where people soon become happy, if there was everyone would be living in happiness.
So now someone might ask what IS happiness? According to Acacia Parks, Ph.D the Assistant Professor of Psychology at Hiram College she says, “The research suggests that happiness is a combination of how satisfied you are with your life (for example, finding meaning in your work) and how good you feel on a day-to-day basis,” (“Happify Daily”). If you are modest and enjoy life/live in the moment you will find happiness. The key to happiness is to live modestly and in the present.
I really like how you put this together, it flows nicely and is captivating. I like how you connected some "What if." scenarios and the source you used is very good and I have used it before as well. I wish you would have made it clear that the short term happiness you were talking about is that rush of Dopamine that causes a short lived euphoria. All in all I thought you did a very nice job.
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