The theme of our learning community this semester was “There’s No Place like Home”. We reflected on happiness and home. Through this course I learned a lot about happiness. Our first essay, we were asked to write a four page paper on what made us happy, and our actual definition of happiness. I never thought about happiness this much before this class. I sat down and examined my definition of happiness. I learned that happiness to me is: something that everyone wants. It is when you are at a state of content with all that is going on around you. Happiness is being satisfied with everything you have. It can also be a choice. You can be happy when you look at the bright side of things and not the negative side of them. The keys to happiness are to live, laugh, and love. Later in the semester we were asked if our definition of happiness had change thus far in the semester. Mine had not changed, but I did add things to what I thought about happiness. From reading other students blog postings, I learned what others thought about happiness. Some had great ideas about happiness which made me open my eyes and think “They are right, I feel that way too.”
When it came to talking about and reflection on “home” I don’t think we went too in depth. We talked about it on occasion in discussions but not as much has happiness. This worked out for me though because to me, home brings happiness. Whenever I am home with family and friends I am truly happy. I believe that this was a great theme for the course, and it made us think a lot about what is special to us and what makes us happy.
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