"Do we even know what make us happy?" Dan Gilbert questioned. I thought I knew what would make me happy, but getting what we want we can't always be happy cause that happiness fades. Thinking getting the most expensive things on earth would make us the happiest but the feeling wouldn’t last forever. When I was little I loved watching cartoon shows I thought watching it would be the only thing that makes me happy. I would either wake up early in the morning to watch my favorite shows or stay up late at night. I used to get really mad at my parents for not letting me watch T.V. Sometimes I would get really upset buy it and at them. I also thought buying all the toys from my cartoons shows would satisfied me if I had collected all of them and placed it in my room. As I now grow older I realized watching cartoon shows, owning toys does not make me happy as I am right now. They are just things to satisfy your needs at that moment. Dan Gilbert is right you can’t say owning something could make you happy. We don't know what will make us happy because we can’t predict the future.
In relationships the one you most love would be the hardest to get over, thinking you would never be happy once they leave you. I had many friends who couldn’t get over their loved ones thinking their life wouldn’t be the same without them and they couldn’t live without them. Later on they all end up getting over it some how. Even if something bad happened to you, you can still find happiness some how from it. As Dan Gilbert study winning a lottery is just the same thing as loosing your job, because later on you’ll feel the same way. I once thought the first guy I went out with would make me happy I thought he would be the one who bring me joy every time I see him, and make me happy when I am down. When it didn’t work out between us, life after is still fine. Just like my friends, we all find things later on hoping what we find would just make us happy at that moment.
i see your talkin about cartoons at the beggining and then you change into friends and people that they love. what i dont see on your blog is which of Dan Gilberts ideas your using, is it the impact of bias or your comparing synthetic and natural happiness.
ReplyDeleteIt's so true about relationships & feeling like you'll never get over what happened. You're right though, based on what we learned, we know we'll all get over it.
ReplyDeleteI think your blog is very good! It has a lot of structure, and details. Personally I believe there is more room for expansion in your blog about Gilbert. There was a lot of details of your own personal experience I saw. You could expand a little more on Gilbert's topics. After I finished reading your blog I understood you more, than what you were relating it too. If I was a new reader I'd want to know little more about Gilbert details too. I think it has to go both ways when relating to a person.
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ReplyDeleteThese are both good examples of some of Gilbert's ideas. A good strategy (as Andrew and Tonny noted) would be to identify and more clearly explain the idea you are using and more directly connect it to your example. A separate paragraph intro and separate conclusion could help make this clear. Also, beware of fragments. Your details add a lot of nice touches.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dr McCormick, Andrew and tonny i would take all of your advises, and use it for my next writting assiment to explain my ideas more clearly.
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