Reflect and Connect: Week 5

Connect:

Reflect:
We discussed Walden in class and we were talking about happiness and what it is and there was a debate on success equaling happiness or happiness equaling success. In my opinion, happiness is success. I feel this way because I can make a personal connection with "success is happiness". I come from a family where if you ask for something, you will get it. In my experience, I want something really bad and I ask for it, I then receive it, but then as time wears on, I no longer feel the need to play with or use my new toy. Over time the novelty of it wears off and I stop paying attention to it after a week maybe. The new object made me happy for a period of time, not for the rest of my life. It didn't better me as a person. I don't even use the new object again, it's just nice to say I have it. Having all of these things in my life makes me no happier. I am happiest with my friends, doing things that make me feel like I have a purpose. Objects don't do that for me. I have another connection I can make with objects because of a close friend. The same thing happens to her. She wants something really bad to the point where she thinks she NEEDS it so she buys it and then about a week later she stops using it and I never see or hear about it again. There are more important things in life than a fancy house or car. Happiness is success.