Second try at defining happiness-Liz Lorch

When we were first asked to define our own personal happiness I was completely stumped. You would think defining anything about yourself would be easy but for me for some reason it wasn't. My first definition of happiness I said the security of things in my life made me happy. Those things just make me feel secure not happy. After further reflection I figured out what makes me happy and what I couldn't go a day without having in my life; my family. My family is my everything. I would do anything for them. After not having them very involved in my life for seven and half months I very quickly learned how much they truely mean to me. I feel like since I said that my family is the key to my happiness people will be quick to think that I'm the perfect child who listens and does as she's told. That's not true at all. I couldn't wait to leave when it was my turn to move out for college. But after being away from my family I quickly realized how close I am to them and how much they truly mean to me. I really think that its true when people say it takes losing something to realize how much that thing really means to you. So my definition has evolved from a very vague answer to a well defined answer of happiness. I know it took me some time to reflect to really figure out what defines my own happiness.