Pursuit of Happiness

The title might be an old-fashioned term. Movie, music lyrics, and even it became the principle of Gottfrield Leibniz over John Locke's in shaping the American founding documents. The victory of "the pursuit of happiness" and the general welfare over Locke's "life, liberty and prosperity" (taken at http://www.schillerinstitute.org/strategic/treaty_of_westphalia.html).

Define "happiness"! It could be a relative matter in which everybody has their own perspective towards the happiness itself. Ones may think differently that they will be happy if they have a huge house, glamourous interior design and property within, with loads of money savings, companies, and living as a socialite. Some others could have thought that when they live with the persons they love and be the loved one, they already reach the happiness even though only live in a simple neighbourhoods with a simple house.

The different perspectives will always happen, as human beings have no limit of satisfactory feelings. As a realist, you will always expand your territory, in order to pursue a relative power in order to reject your fear, as it is human nature. As a marxist, happiness will never reach the limit since you don't enlarge your capital until you got the infinite welfare and material.

Everybody must have their own concerns towards what decision and action they chose in order to reach the happiness. As a daughter, I'd like to be successful in carrier and study, making my parents proud and happy. That's my prior goal at the moment, indeed. As a believer and human being, one of God's creatures, I also have to do what HE want me to do, and avoid the don'ts. Meanwhile, I'm also trying to reach my other goals since I have some other functions in society. As a good citizen, I'd like to do my best for my country. And, as everybody wants to be loved, I do either.

The basic happiness, to my opinion, comes from our surroundings. We live, we make or do things (jobs), we be fruitful to others, we should love what we do and do what we love. If I may conclude, one word for happiness, L.O.V.E.

Once, in a movie entitled Pursuit of Happiness...

"Christopher Gardner: It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?"