Happiness - Amy Williams

I find the term happiness to be remained undefined. It is a term that we as a whole have such different ways to define it individually. However, the concept of it bringing joy, contentment, and love into our lives is universal. After class discussions, talking individually to family and friends, and reading other blogs on happiness, I have come to the conclusion that we all deep down strive for the same thing to bring happiness into our lives. That one thing is relationships. Whether it is a relationship with family, pets, friends, or creating new ones with strangers, we all want that connection and bonding which brings us the joy, contentment, and love that we long for. People lose their families and friends all the time, yet they're able to create new relationships throughout their lives to replace those lost relationships, leading me to believe that the interaction, connection, and relationship with others is what creates the happiness rather than who it's with. However, the who does have an impact on the relationship. A relationship with a mother would be deeper than a relationship with a stranger. This is because you have a closer connection with the mother since you've been around her much longer, but one could become just as close to a stranger if the connection is there. We're always going to strive for new relationships with others, it just comes naturally. It's not that we want to replace existing relationships with new ones, rather it's having the new one to bring something different into our lives.