9/5/07

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the prompt below.
People are happy only when they have their minds fixed on some goal other than their own happiness. Happiness comes when people focus instead on the happiness of others, on the improvement of humanity, on some course of action that is followed not as a means to anything else but as an end in itself. Aiming at something other than their own happiness, they find happiness along the way. The only way to be happy is to pursue some goal external to your own happiness.

Are people more likely to be happy if they focus on goals other than their own happiness? Plan and write a blog in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

People now of days are most likely to be happy if they focus on goals other than their own happiness. Cause to me if u really want something go out and get mainly because if u really love what you want to do as a goal. Then when you finish your happiness will wonderful cause you achieved something that you been wanting for the longest, and your happiness is truly great.