Happiness

    In the story “The ones who walk away from omelas” was sort of confusing to me. For the most part I did not understand exactly what it was trying to tell us and who the narrator was, but I related most of the story back to us as humans. I took us as humans as we have a bad habit as really recognizing or making happiness. This really makes me think about how we always as humans take everything for grantee. I mean this whole intro to lit class made me realize how much humans (and myself) do not really appreciate a lot. I mean that starts with just nature to the basic of happiness. I mean before this class I know I did not really look at nature and let that give me a chance to be happy! Now however though I can make peace in my mind to let the joy come and put a smile on my face. We have such high limits for trying to be happy all the time. Happiness can just come from us sitting by our self, but yet it is a mind thing. We have to open our minds to not just what we want, but from a broad perspective. We cannot just cancel out ideas before even listening to them. Or close our ears to new ideas. “Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive.” I liked this quote because it is yet a simple quote but can mean so much. We can make happiness out of anything. Yet it is the choices me make that determine that! I think in our generation we are always looking for happiness no matter who we are. We all want happiness! One thing that really stuck out to me was how we could probably make a difference to someone each day in our lives and make someone happy, but do we? We have the choice to help someone out or talk to someone that dosent has friends, but will we? What is the cost to make someone else happy? If we could just really try and let Jesus be an example in our life and show his true happiness when someone else is down or needs it how much different do you think the world would be? But the question that sticks to my mind is will we? Will we go out on a limb to make someone happy?