Essay 1 Pre-Draft: Thesis Paragraph

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new” (Antoine de Saint-Exupery). Several people might agree with this quote because happiness can be found by helping others and by making new experiences. However, happiness is a controversial issue in which people have different opinions on how it is built. The article “How to Buy Happiness” by Sonja Lyubomirsky and the the article “What Suffering Does” by David Brooks show two different perspectives about how happiness is reached. To me, the key to happiness is about making our lives better through accepting the past and through experiences, because experiences aren’t quantitative, they’re not defined by numbers or worth, but qualitative, that is what quality experience you have.