Seunghee You

                                                                                                                           





What is happiness like? Where does the happiness we feel come from? While jogging in the morning, I suddenly thought, "Is the happiness I think anyone can relate to?" While jogging, I saw the scenery of green trees and grass in the background of the Han River, and I felt happy imagining myself lying in it. It might be a scene where someone wants to run away, saying, "Oh, it's messy or I think I'm going to get bitten by a bug.". When I was young, I have a comfortable memory that filled me with complete freedom when I played with water in the yard or lay down on the grass and bathed in the sun. In addition, I feel refreshed when I see Jiss (my dog' name) rubbing his body on the green grass, burying grass and soil, or lying on his stomach in the warm sunlight. As such, the appearance that someone wants to avoid comes to me as happiness.
Happiness is generated from satisfaction and joy felt from personal experience. The conditions in which you used to be satisfied and happy in your life soon become your happiness. And they will be running with their own goals to live close to that happiness. We think about not only happiness but also everything in life according to individual standards. Humans trust their experiences more than they think. Therefore, in order to understand and sympathize with what one has not experienced, faith must be premised. Just like a child who has never swam kicks in the water because he believes his father next to him will protect him. Faith is a mysterious state of mind that makes the invisible vivified and forgets the fear. In addition, faith is the driving force attracted to the human virtues, 'living together' love.
As I said earlier, happiness is defined by personal experience. Of course, the personal experience cannot be said to have complete individuality regardless of others, but it cannot be considered as not narrow-minded because it is full of one's own interpretation. In other words, for humans with tangible bodies in a materialized world, experience is limited because it takes a lot of effort to come up with and feel something without substance. Therefore, humans can bound to be narrow-minded in their own experiences. However, as mentioned earlier, human intolerance can be overcome through faith that enables love, which is a human virtue.
The concept of happiness is completely become different when connected with faith in others. Happiness viewed from an individual's perspective expands to a completely different scale after sharing the perspective of others. When you experience this, you will look back on how selfish and narrow-minded my happiness was and whether it bothered me. 
Today's individualism has become extreme and is unfolding into non-maritalism or DINK. There are even people who marry dolls or trees, not humans. In an individual-centered world, one commits the fallacy of not recognizing that one's happiness is reduced and narrow because individual choices are subject to indiscriminate respect. In other words, personal happiness can expand the meaning of happiness and further become true happiness, when shared with others. Therefor through sharing happiness can also be changed the personal definition of happiness.