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Coldea Cristina

clasa a XII-a A

Reflective essay

Its too long to wait to be happy, so lets be happy while


waiting.
It is commonly believed that happiness comes and goes, is brief and intriguing and we never know
when to expect it, so why should someone wait for it? Being happy is one of the most common goals people
adopt, although they are well aware of its inutility or insufficiency.
In most cultures, happiness becomes one of the least significant aspects and children are made to
understand the importance of a financial feature. Nowadays, when democracy and the freedom of expressing
your point of view became fundamental ideals, people still consider that, in order to achieve happiness, you
have to be financially assured. In the Indian culture, for example, young girls are promised as wives to a
rich, powerful but old man. Although these girls are obliged to respect their vows, as well as their husband,
they cant possibly be happy, speaking from a romantic point of view.
However, from a historical perspective, things are not that different or more optimistic. If it is to
evaluate the progression of what people suppose about happiness during a large period of time, we will
conclude that many of us followed the path of enriching. For instance, in the Medium Eve, a popular
tendency was that families were forged in order to create a strong alliance between two clans. Moreover,
parents always considered that that was the best thing they could do, even if their children could not be
happy. They considered that they will come to be happy, as soon as they are married and properly settled at
their home, an applicable situation in their own case, not in their childrens.
As a wise man once said: We live as if we are never going to die, and we die as if we never lived.
Emphasizing his words and contemplating about his experience, it transforms into a general truth the fact
that the 21st century people are still uncertain of what happiness actually means and expect it to come, but
many of them are still waiting. The bare concept of happiness is constructed by moments: moments in the
company of our family, moments laughing with friends, moments of satisfying exhaustion, moments of
exhilaration, moments spent travelling to new and unexplored places, moments of speechless surprise when
you see and can touch the things you have developed, they are all priceless and irrecoverable!
Whether one chooses to not wait for happiness, take advantage of the moment and create it by pure
self-convincing, whether one chooses to wait and earn some money until the happiness arrives, everyone
should be aware of a human beings ephemeral existence and try to find happiness in the smallest and,
apparently unimportant, thing. Nevertheless, many psychologists consider it wiser to not wait, or else the
regrets are going to get so numerous that ones grave would not be solid enough to carry them.

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