520R Journal5

Collecting Happiness

Accompanying by the development of society, people now have increased money and higher quality of life, but still they don’t feel happy, or even the factor of happiness becomes lower than before. It seems abnormal, but the fact is so nowadays.

There are so many unsatisfactory things in daily life. Some people complain about their overtime working, some people argue about how to earn more money, and some others don’t like the weather where they live in. No matter whether the life is good or bad, they can still find something that makes them unhappy.

Why does it often appear this kind of situation? It is might be true that the psychological effect plays an important role in it. The more people want to get, the higher the request will become. Once it cannot reach the place they expect, the feeling of unhappiness will appear. It is like an old Chinese saying goes: The higher the climb, the more severe fall.

Therefore, how to be happy is becoming an important problem should be solved first. In my opinion, it is not a big deal. What we should do is just trying to collect the happiness at any time and place. Because all of us are easy to overlook the tiny things around us, which means that we merely focus on the big happiness, and ignore the tiny enjoyment.

Nevertheless, sometimes the tiny happiness is more useful than the big one, since it is easier to be found out in daily life. For instance, studying abroad is a challenge and has a lot of difficulties, but can we enjoy the new life here? Obviously, no one can help us to deal with it, so we should find out tiny happiness and collect them by ourselves. Such as making a new foreign friend, getting to know a local custom, realizing some new words, which are all happiness we should not ignore. Although they are tiny and insignificant sometimes, when looking back of a day, adding all of these together, you will find a big happiness in front of you. How amazing it is!

When you feel upset, don’t complain about others, just looking around, you may find back so much happiness you missed, collecting them then you can get a bigger one.