Parsanjeet KourAIR 11 · CSE 2022 · 165 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Happiness is an optimistic feeling which makes an individual feel good about himself as well as about others.
Body · continuous prose
Marcus Aurelius in this quotation remarks that happiness in life depends upon quality of thoughts and is dictated by how and what a person thinks and believes.
As an example Mother Teresa cherished thoughts of peace, service, help, honesty, gratitude and care and practice of these ideals in her service to Kolkata's poor and lepers gave her immense happiness.
Similarly, Adolf Hitler had thoughts of revenge, hatred, spiteful attitude, war and bloodshed and these gave him happiness when he did heinous genocide in deadly concentration camps which he referred as "DISINFECTION UNITS".
Thus what makes one happy is dependent on one's thoughts. Happiness derived from service to others is long lasting and eternal and one that is gained at costs of someone's tears is artificial and temporary.
Close · a way forward
Efforts should be to rejoice everlasting happiness. Life of APJ Abdul Kalam, Dr S. Radhakrishnan are role-models in this direction.
3 more toppers’ answers to this question, part by part, and how they all approached it: open the question.