东北大学研究生英语写作范文 what is happiness

Names: 高超，李颖，刘芳，周荣荣，安乐，王龙福，张宽
Course: English writing for graduates
Date: October 17.2012
What is happiness
Happiness is a nice feeling which comes from the inside. And in my opinion, happiness is an easy thing that we can feel every minute. As a child, happiness signifies a kind of feeling of satisfaction. As the young, happiness means having a harmonious family. As the elder people, happiness indicates their children could accompany with them. In a word, people have different opinions on happiness at different periods: adolescence, middle-aged and elderly people.
For a child, happiness means just a kind of feeling of satisfaction. When I am young, my understanding of happiness is simple. For example, my happiness comes from the Spring Festival. Because my mother will buy many new clothes for me, my father will buy many snacks for me and my grandparents will give me lots of money which I can use to buy many toys, I like spring festival. So happiness indicates that I am the emperor in our families, we have never been punished after we do something wrong, we can play games freely; and we can watch TV whenever we want. How simple children’s happiness is!
For the middle-aged, happiness means have a harmonious family. If we have a stable job and a satisfactory salary, we will feel happy. In our holidays, if we can take our families to travel and relax ourselves, we will feel happy. For example, th e TV series “The Happiness of The First C hild” shows us the answer to happiness and happiness life is the ordinary but not mediocrity. Happiness indicates making dinner for my family on time everyday; or happiness is washing bowls but never say tired; or happiness is paring apples for my parents; or happiness is giving him a cup of tea after my father finish bathing. So having harmonious families is happiness for the middle-aged.
However, for elderly people, their happiness is simple. What they need is promise their children could accompany with them and they are healthy. For example, my grandparents need not worry about their basic necessities of life, but they always feel lonely at the same time. The day they expect most is the Spring Festival in which day my family members get together. During those days, we accompany with them, and smile is full of their face. At that time, I ask them why they are so pleased, the answer they give me is just that you are all here. So in our holidays, we should go home and see our parents and grandparents. It will make them feel happy.
Maybe in our lives, we always pursue high glory and much more money. However when we have all of those things, we feel we are not happy. What is happiness on earth? In my opinion, happiness does not mean possession many luxurious things, but it is a feeling when we stay with our families and recall the memory that we have experienced. Happiness is the most precious of thing in the world, so we should cherish happiness around us.。