Happiness, what is happiness? According to the English dictionary it is a state of well being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. To be realistic no one would really use a dictionary to define happiness. Happiness could be anything, listening to children playing in the background, financial stability, falling in love, travelling the world. Everyone defines happiness in his or her own way. In most if not all religions around the world, emphasizes that the soul purpose of living is to gain happiness; everyone around the world wants to gain happiness in some way or another. True happiness is one of the hardest things to achieve in life; some may never even achieve it.

But, back to the question, what is happiness? Is happiness making other happy or should happiness start with you? Some believe that the only way they can be happy and have a reason to wake up every morning is to make others happy, they are willing to risk their own comfort and happiness for others, I personally believe is wrong. Others believe happiness should start with ones self; they should first secure their own happiness, being comfortable in there own skin then think about the happiness of others. That to some people could be selfish, but is it? Is carrying about your own happiness, putting your happiness before others selfish? I do not think so. I think there should be a balance between both.

Another point, how can one become happy? Some would spend their entire lives searching for the meaning of happiness and what makes them happy they are willing to walk to the ends of the earth to do that, most of the times they wont find it or if they do they wont be satisfied with it. Happiness comes when you least expect it or it was under their noses all along.

Some may rely on a physical object or someone to be the main source of their happiness, an object that