Mustakim Choudhury

30 September 2018

Honors English

Mrs.Williams-Arnold

Happiness is Real

Happiness is a real emotion because it moves a person forward. If happiness was

imaginary, then there would be no positive people in the world. The quote, ”Happiness is an

imaginary condition” (Thomas Szasz) doesn’t make sense because the world would fall apart

with no happiness. Happiness is an emotion that leads to success. Statistics show that happy

people are more likely to be successful than people who resemble emotions of negativity. Happy

people enjoy every moment of their life, and they show it by practicing acts of kindness. If our

world didn’t consist of people like that, then Earth would just be a sphere filled with negativity.

If there is negativity, then nobody would have compassion for each other; so everybody would

have hate towards each other. But the world is the complete opposite. People always impact the

world in beautiful ways. Some create cures for diseases, that people would die from. Others

innovate, making our lives easier to live. This is the effect of a widespread of happiness. If

happiness was non-existent, then there always would be changes that have a negative impact on

our lives.

Imagine a world without happiness, the only emotions left would be associated with

despair. When Szasz said, “Happiness is an imaginary condition”(Thomas Szasz); the only types

of people on Earth would be sad, angry, frustrated and depressed. The world’s population would

only be unhappy people, this is because there are no feelings related to positivity and there would

be nobody to spread happiness. Depression would take more lives than usual, and people would
be killing each other constantly. However, this isn’t the world we live in. We need to keep in

mind that we wouldn’t have world peace without happiness. Society would not be moving

forward; people would be stuck in the past. Happiness is what moves a person forward. When

there is people who continuously advance in their life, the world is a better place. You should

care about the existence of happiness because without it you have nothing to look forward to,

and your life would carry no meaning. There will always be the question, “What’s the meaning

of life?” That question brings no answer because without happiness; there is no meaning of life.

We need happiness to keep the world moving forward and making life worth living.