Eduardo Porter's Essay What Happiness Is
In the essay," What Happiness Is," Eduardo Porter shares quotations from sources to define happiness (459-61). I will focus on Gandhi's quotation " Happiness is when, what you think, what you say and what you do are in Harmony,'' Gandhi. In the world on one else steal happiness from you in this manner, only you can. If you do what you say and say what you think, then all is in alignment and you have opportunity for happiness. When they are out of alignment you have internal conflict and happiness will be hard to achieve.My life was good and I was happy. I had a great husband and had recently brought a house in Sacramento, had a good job and a great circle of family and friends.
All of that changed over the course of few months and I began to lose absolutely everything I had. I almost died, I decided that my life was not worth living and had occasional thoughts of ending my life. Only one they keep me from destroying myself the look on my parent's faces when they heard that I had left this planet. I couldn't do that to them given all the things they had done for me to get me where I am and to be the person I am today. …show more content…
He moved at and wouldn't talk to me. We had to split everything, so we sold the house. It was my dream house, so consequently. I hit a major depression phase and couldn't stay focused at work anymore so I left my job too.I went from one therapist to another to figure out how to control my emotions and fears. One of my mentors, burned me a CD with guided meditation. That started to change my life forever. After that I learned how to use my emotion and the feeling that were going on my mind toward my inner evolution. My life began to shift as I learned to observe my thought more and more and choose actions to give to move positive thought and feeling. I made peace with my past stopped worrying about the future and managed to keep my mind in the present moment
All of that changed over the course of few months and I began to lose absolutely everything I had. I almost died, I decided that my life was not worth living and had occasional thoughts of ending my life. Only one they keep me from destroying myself the look on my parent's faces when they heard that I had left this planet. I couldn't do that to them given all the things they had done for me to get me where I am and to be the person I am today. …show more content…
He moved at and wouldn't talk to me. We had to split everything, so we sold the house. It was my dream house, so consequently. I hit a major depression phase and couldn't stay focused at work anymore so I left my job too.I went from one therapist to another to figure out how to control my emotions and fears. One of my mentors, burned me a CD with guided meditation. That started to change my life forever. After that I learned how to use my emotion and the feeling that were going on my mind toward my inner evolution. My life began to shift as I learned to observe my thought more and more and choose actions to give to move positive thought and feeling. I made peace with my past stopped worrying about the future and managed to keep my mind in the present moment