Happiness

What is happiness? Do you think that you can determine a specific definition for it? In fact, no one can define happiness exactly because each person has his own vision about it. Charles Spurageon said once, “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy. That makes happiness”. He shows the deep meaning of happiness. In my personal opinion happiness is simply being at peace with my own self and with the world. Actually, there are many things causing happiness like money, social activities, intelligence and good looks, but there are other things that strongly cause it. In this essay, I’m going to talk about three things that strongly cause happiness: love, good health, and employment. I will also demonstrate the positive effect of it.

First, the relations that are dominated by love and mutual respect make their owners feel happy. Many surveys show that the people who are in love are happier than people who aren’t. For example, parenthood is a large source of love and happiness One of the beautiful and exciting moments is when parents see the smile on their children faces, and watch them growing up in a good health day after day. On the other hand, many people say that parenthood means tiredness and stress, and large amounts of money are spent on children, but I disagree with that because I believe that children are a gift from God and we should enjoy it. Another example is marriage. There is a very strong connection between marriage and happiness. Stable marriage emits reassurance and comfort to our life. Obviously, single people or people who live alone usually feel frustration and lonely. That’s why often single people have cats and dogs, so that at least they have someone to take care and share them their lives. I think they are constantly attempting to fill the sense of vacuum in their lives. However, I know that sometimes marriage might go through difficult stages caused by different views and conflicts, but with true intent and strong determination, they can make their marriage successful and achieve their goals.

Second, many researches show that there is a strong correlation between happiness and good health. For instance, people get sad and depressed when they get sick because illness makes them fell lonely, upset and worried about them selves. Undoubtedly, that the good health means that you are able to do many activities in your daily life. On the other hand, we can find many people who are suffering of physical disabilities, but in the same time they seem to be happy. Because they are satisfied with their selves and they have a high spirit. There is a saying in my culture that show the connection between the good health and happiness which is “the good health is a crown upon the happy people heads”.

Finally, a very important factor that causes happiness is job. A stable job can make people feel safety and let them live with dignity. Therefore, unemployment people feel unhappiness, misery and hopeless. Recently, the rate of suicide rise among unemployment across the world because of the disability feelings. Another thing is job satisfaction, that’s mean to love, enjoy, more effective and productive at your work. Also, people who work should feel grateful to have jobs while many people are loosing their jobs because of the economic crises.

As a conclusion, we can see now that the happiness causes by three strong things: love, good
health and job. I believe that happiness is mix of them all. At the end, we should all be thankful, content
and glade of every little thing we have.

The Recession

All the countries across the world affected by the recession ,It's the biggest event in the world,and everything became very expensive too . Obviously that the economic crisis affect on many people ,because they start lose their jobs,homes and money. for example, Rob LeBlanc 35, a father with four children he was a former restaurant manager, and he is now a pizza delivery man . So their life is different now and their income became very low too comparing to their previous life , now they are struggling. His wife Donna LeBlanc said " It is embarrassing for my husband to take a job he is overqualified for, and I know he feels ashamed at times ". So being a pizza delivery man is very difficult change for Rob because he is overqualified for this job, and he should be in a higher place. this story is smiler to many stories across the nation,and this satiation is different from my country Saudi Arabia because in my country only a few people lose their jobs. But certainly all the people are suffering of the raise of the prices of products. I don't think that the recession affect on me or my family, because we are student and my shcolership pay for us. So thank God.