What Happiness Means to Me Term Paper

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Happiness Means to Me

My strategy for creating and ensuring thorough happiness for myself and others is simple: I will treat myself and others well, with kindness and compassion. As a nurse, I have already dedicated my life to helping others heal and experience overall well-being. My profession will continue to bolster my happiness as well as the happiness of others. However, happiness for me is not limited to my job; in my personal life too, I will maintain high standards of ethics, health, inner peace, and prosperity. Happiness to me means not the fleeting moments of bliss that can accompany daily life; this is but an obsolete definition of happiness that will lead not to true joy but to the mindless pursuit of sensual pleasure. I will, however, lie in a literal and figurative bed of roses in order to experience those moments of happiness that come from pure inner peace but that are not dependent on material things. I will continue to pursue holistic prosperity through my livelihood, which I know serves as a boon to both myself and to others. Not only will nursing pay my bills for years to come, it will also have ancillary payoffs, such as bringing health to other people. Continuing to practice my rewarding profession will bring deep happiness to my life as I witness those around me smile and appreciate their being alive. Throughout my life, I will direct and focus my attention and energies to a true, long-lasting sense of happiness that pervades my life and the lives of others. Therefore, my happiness entails a combination of personal and interpersonal blessings that through my actions I create.


One of the personal blessings that I will create in my life will be like lying on a bed of roses. Aromatic, sensual, and awash with color, roses symbolize love and spirituality. Lying amid the soft petals, I will contemplate true joy, knowing that as I follow my bliss I will be contributing to the bliss of others. The surer of myself I become, the more happiness I will create in my life. When I am peaceful and serene, I will act with complete kindness and compassion to all who I meet. When people around me bother me or make me angry, I will react with an appropriate measure of assertiveness but will never resort to harming others. I will therefore always seek to be cordial and sweet to those I meet either in my personal or professional life. Lying on a bed of roses will be my way of bringing my inner peace to the outer world.

Related to this concept of happiness is my ability to prosper and be healthy, which I will do with grace, ease, and aplomb. Because my profession is nursing, it will only make sense for me to pursue perfect health and well-being for myself. I will treat my body well by eating good foods and refraining from unhealthy behaviors. My good health will serve as a conspicuous example to others who might learn from my example as well as from their own mistakes. In addition to the optimal physical and mental health conditions I will create….....

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