Happiness

When I think of happiness, I think without doubt that it is something good and therefore it is something everyone persues. However, when I give myself some time to really think what happiness is, I realize that I have many interpretation of happiness inside me. When I was little, I felt happiness when I was doing something special, exciting, something that is out of ordinary. For example, I remember that every time we had special events at school, such as sports festival and field trips, I was overly excited and became unable to sleep at night. However, now as an grown up, I feel happiness in ordinary life, especially at some moments like when I am simply spending time with my friends and families, doing nothing special but talking or eating together. I also feel happy when I feel that I am putting my effort for in to the things that I have determined to do. Determination can be a small thing such as to sleep everyday by 12pm for my health or to try to have smile on my face as much as possible. I also like to put efforts for my future goal, which is to be an independent person with an occupation which I can be proud of doing. To make this dream come true, I am studying public policy and politics at university and outside of the school, I am studying French and Chinese to advance my strength (i think) in language. I am also trying to learn from the every single moment of life by listening others carefully and being as thoughtful and careful as I can in daily lives. When I think of the happiness in the future, I realized that I have different thoughts comparing to the past. When I was younger, I thought happiness for me is to acquire professional skills and to be successful. However, now I think that my greatest happiness can  be achieved when I will have a family of my own and to become able to support them as a member of the family and also, as a mother of the family. I am surprised by this change which happened inside me and I think I have changed my idea by enountering different people through my life.  I　met people with different ideas and experience and by interacting with them I learned their interpretations of happiness and found some important ideas from them. I think one's interpretation of happiness is something changes everyday and therefore it is important to give ourselves time to think of our definition of happiness. This is because i think it is now very difficult to think of the happiness and therefore there are many people who determine what happiness is and present their ideas through books, movies, and other forms of media. These things can be good tools to think of happiness, but I　think it is important to remember that the true interpretation of happiness can be found only by ourselves and not by what others say about happiness.