Well, since it is not specified what we should be writing about and the things I read are not exactly something I want to talk about in this blog, I am going to use this freedom to talk about an article I just found on The New Yorker Website. I found this article called Social Animal. In the search box I had typed in the key word "happiness" and I was surprised to see that most of this article was focused on relationships. It made sense to me because I believe that humans are social creatures and rely on the company of others to be happy, but I wasn't expecting almost the whole article to be about relationships.
One quote I liked from this article was "The brain exists within the skull, but the mind extends outward and arises from the interactions between people or between a person and the environment." The article spoke a little about how the brain worked in a psychological way that makes people need to be included in social activities, and I found this quote interesting because it is true that a humans mind extends from out of our brains and into other who are around us. We depend on others and according to this article, the moment we meet the one we marry or plan on spending the rest of our lives with, is the most important day of our life. I understand that it is a human necessity to have company and need love and human interaction, but I don't know if I wanted to agree with this article. It made it seem like the only and only purpose of life is to find that one person who you will spend the rest of your life with. A quote directly from this article stated "there is no decision more important to lifelong happiness than the decision about whom to marry."
What I found even more surprising was that this article was written by a man. I was expecting this to have been written by a woman who had believed throughout her whole life that her soul purpose in life was to find her "soul-mate" and life happily ever after. I was expecting her to be a woman who walks down the street after she's just met a man thinking about him and wondering what their children will look like and what she will name them. At first, I was very interested in the article and wanted to keep reading because of all the interesting facts, but towards the end, I began getting a little frustrated because some of the articles "facts" seemed faker than a teen-age-boy in heat's "I love you." One thing that I found absolutely ridiculous was that, according to this article, "there’s evidence that men fall in love faster and are more likely to believe that true love lasts forever." I find it extremely hard to believe this, and until I become a scientist myself and conduct this research on my own, I will not allow myself to believe this.
Why did it catch your attention?
Lately, I have been observing people more and trying to see if they are happy or not. I consider myself a happy person and even though my views are not always positive, I keep a smile on my face and laugh at life and honestly, I am happier than I have ever been. Since I will legally be adult next year and will have to start getting ready to be completely on my own, it seems that the thing that concerns me that most is whether or not I will be happy. I searched the word happiness because I am concerned that I might wake up one day and realize that I have made many mistakes in my life and wish I could go back in time and change my decisions. I only get once life and I want to try my best to make it count.
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