Happiness

In these three different articles, Happy Like god, The joy of less and also Want to be happy be grateful and all three of them had different viewpoints on how to be happy.  In the first article that we read, Happy like god by: Simon Critchley, his view on how to be happy.  He said our lives are filled with distractions such as cell phones, car alarms and commuter woes.  He said to be happy you need to be in a complete state of reverie without any of the distractions listed above.  He said if anyone is happy, then one imagines that God is pretty happy, and to be happy is to be like God which was the main point made in his article.  The next article that we read was The joy of less by: Pico Iyer.  In his article his main statement was that happiness isn't necessarily having a lot of stuff it might be having less.  In his article he said when he goes to Burma, Morocco or El Salvador he "noticed that the people I met there, mired in difficulty and often warfare, seemed to have more energy and even optimism than the friends I'd grown up with in privileged, peaceful Santa Barbara, Calif., many of whom were on their fourth marriages and seeing a therapist every day."  This shows how easy everyone living in the United States has it compared to places like these.  The last opinion of happiness came from a Ted Talk with David Steindl-Rast.  The main point of his view was that some people don't have everything but they are happy because they are grateful because of what they DO have.  Out of the three different views of happiness I agree with this one the most because I agree with mostly all of the points made during his presentation.  The best and most important thing that David Steindl-Rast stated in his presentation was that "happiness doesn't make us grateful, gratefulness makes us happy."  These are just one of the many reasons that I agree with him.  All of these three people have different views on happiness and although I agree with some of the things all three say, I agree with David Steindl-Rast Ted talk the most.