Peace or Happiness & Author of the Month
Hello read.cash friends and readers. It's been a long week for me. Not exactly a normal week for me but not a bad one either. I haven't worked long hours driving which is different. The thing is I have been kind of socializing a lot this week. I picked this article topic above from talking with a friend about it briefly.
So let's discuss peace and happiness. Are they related or far from each other? Well I think they are related but they can also be much different from each other. I'll discuss which one I think is better as well. Let's exam their definitions.
Peace
There are different kinds of peace but let's focus on just one derived from Oxford dictionary:
Freedom from anxiety, disturbance (emotional, mental, or spiritual), or inner conflict; calm, tranquillity.
Happiness
The following definition also derived from the Oxford dictionary.
The state of pleasurable contentment of mind; deep pleasure in or contentment with one's circumstances.
Which one is better to have?
Everyone has heard the phrase, "Peace of mind." A feeling that basically gives us satisfaction that we are in a good place or position based on a set factors. Do we need to be happy to be at peace? No we don't, we can make a decision and be ok with it happy or not. For instance, one could be at peace with another accepting how they feel for another. Maybe they accept someone as friend instead of lover, acquittance instead of enemy, or roommate instead of a friend.
Peace could be the way we live. One could be at peace for having a roof over their head, having daily necessities such as food, and of course employment. It doesn't mean we have our dream house or job to obtain a peaceful life. So to me peace is a choice of what we are willing to accept.
The decision making process of peace can be obtained by sacrificing or just by accepting factors that are in front of us. One could also put their foot down and create their own peace. Another saying, "I won't lose any sleep because I'm at peace with it" can be applied here.
What about happiness? Sure being happy can help us emotionally. Can it be created? Do we have to find or can it be given? I think it would be hard to materialize happiness. Sure we can be positive in hopes to keep ourselves happy. What happens is we got to keep doing it to keep it. Are we really happy doing this over and over though?
We can find happiness through others. Sometimes it can be long lasting. Finding someone who we have chemistry with or meets all are needs can make us happy. Happiness is not always long lasting with others. Trust can be broken, through time it could wear off, and there's always the chance it wasn't meant to be.
We also can be given happiness. A few examples: through generousity, a life of a child, help from others, and among other things. Once again no guarantee on all these things. Are we happy when we receive money? Yes, it's hard for someone to argue with that. Is it long lasting though? No, once it is gone the happiness fades away, especially if we need more.
A birth of a child does bring happiness. Seeing part of you in your child does make us happy Their accomplishments also make us proud. I believe happiness is long lasting through are children. Happiness doesn't always transfer over to other things though. It is possible to have happiness in one thing and not on others.
Doing a good deed can bring happiness to others. Sometimes these deeds can install good life changing behaviors for the recipient. Unfortunately it's not a guaranteed long term happiness.
A full life of happiness is not guaranteed at all. Living a life of peace can happen in my opinion. It's all about sacrificing and accepting things in your life. I go with peace being better than happiness. Don't get me wrong nothing wrong with happiness. It's just in most situations it comes and goes.
What do you think is more obtainable: living a life in peace or Happiness?
Author of Month
Alright it's time to give prompts to I feel deserves My Author of the Month for April. I had a handful people I thought of giving this honor to. I haven't been able to read as many articles as I want to and haven't commented on all the ones I have read. I still know though who to select though. This person is pretty active on this platform and on Noise. I love how they engage a lot with other authors.
Congratulations @jeaneth I always enjoy reading your prospective on various topics. Keep being the awesome you!!
Thank you for taking the time to read my article. I hope everyone had a happy or peaceful weekend. Take care and be safe. Love you all ❤️
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Happiness is an emotion so it is temporary our emotions aren't stable all the time while peace we can acquire without even being happy ..I mean we can have peace even if we are lonely.