The life path of any person causes ambivalence in the context of happiness. Circumstances and events in life change dramatically, but people are often deprived of the ability to influence and prevent them directly. Such powerlessness and unwillingness to put up with the existing state of affairs make sadness and unhappiness an integral element of the spectrum of human emotions. I share an idea stated in ” Why Science Says you Deserve to be Happy” that human beings are not inherently required to be delighted every time. No one should be judged for their inner experiences or failure to handle stress by others because there is nothing wrong with or alien about humans as an intelligent species. A person is not defined by their emotionless perception of everything that does not please or hurt them but by building a daily path to happiness, no matter what. This idea is supported by Fraser in “Taking Pills for Unhappiness Reinforces the idea that being sad is not Human.”
However, if an individual can develop and uphold the proper attitude toward circumstances and challenges, a person’s life route can be filled with happiness. People cannot directly change many things, but they can change their mindset. To get through tough times, anyone can also concentrate on activities associated with happiness and inner calmness, like reading a book, hanging out with friends, or watching the fire or water flow. “The Happiness Myth: A review” also prompts reflection on the origin of happiness in human life since the path to it is based on the awareness of its presence in everything surrounding a person. Shupak’s “ Does Technology Make People Happier” indicates that despite the constant presence of happiness somewhere near a person, everyone understands it in their way and prefers to look for it differently from others.
The impact of social networks on people today is debatable, according to Konnokova and Strom’s arguments. While some people use them to gain happiness through communication and to preserve the memories they receive, others constantly compare their lives with bloggers, and this negative comparison becomes a source of unhappiness. However, this circumstance demonstrates that every person is responsible for determining their happiness threshold. Thus, even the same mechanism used by various people will impact each person’s condition differently.