october 5,2007

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the prompt below.
People are happy only when they have their minds fixed on some goal other than their own happiness. Happiness comes when people focus instead on the happiness of others, on the improvement of humanity, on some course of action that is followed not as a means to anything else but as an end in itself. Aiming at something other than their own happiness, they find happiness along the way. The only way to be happy is to pursue some goal external to your own happiness.
Are people more likely to be happy if they focus on goals other than their own happiness? Plan and write a blog in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

I think that an equal amount of both happiness and pursueing your goals.The only person that can persue your goals would be yourself and i think that if you persue your goals that should make your happiness level boost so i really don't see a way that one has more importances then the other in life. Especially since in life you have ups and downs that help you and sometimes may hurt but if you have happiness and goals in life you will mostly likely persue those gials by making your self happy. In my personal oppinion i think that they balance each other out and regardless of anyhting else you can increase your happiness by doing things for yourself like for example maybe your goal is to get your toenails done once every three weeks and once you do that your self-esteem increases and that a) made your goal and b)made you happy both internally and externally.