Health and Happiness (健康与幸福)

Health and Happiness

Happiness lies first of all in health. Only when we have a healthy body can we do other things. Happiness is just like a beautiful garden, and health is the key to open the door. If we want to enjoy the flower, and feel the fragrance of them, we must try to open the door first.

Health includes two sides: physical health and mental health. Happiness is a feeling of wellbeing with a state of health. In order to have happiness, firstly, we should try our best to have a healthy body. But it is true that many people who are physically healthy are not happy. In the university campus, we can see a lot of confused people wasting their time to do some meaningless things and ignore studies and interpersonal relationship completely. As a result, these people feel very depressed after they graduate. That’s because they don’t have mental health. The famous psychologist Freud said health involves the ability to love and work. People who are emotionally and mentally healthy have the tools to cope with difficult situations and to maintain a positive outlook. They also tend to remain focused, flexible, and creative in bad times as well as good.Life is a long journey. Obstacles and hardships occur from time to time. Nobody wants to see happiness slips away due to a lack of mental strength to crack difficulties, neither do I. When we face physical

disability or other diseases, what should we do? Should we fear and quit? Should we be at a loss as to what to do? Or should we, like Helen Keller, smile to them and face them confidently? Nobody can be healthy all the time, what we should do is work hard, and love the people around you. No matter what happened, we should have a positive attitude to be healthy.

A healthy body is an ingredient to promote happiness. However, happiness does not depend on it alone. Only when we have the real health: both physical and mental health, can we enjoy our life. And only with a positive attitude can we live in happiness.

Health and happiness, it is not an either-or question because no matter which one you choose, the other will come to your threshold soon.