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Happeniss

Gus Merwin
9-23-07
Eng 102

The Pursuit of Happiness
I believe that happiness is the most important thing in life. I don't see any point to want any thing else in life besides happiness. I think a lot of people waste their lives trying to achieve things they dream of in the future, but the whole time they miss having the real fun of living now, and going through their current adventure of life. People do all kinds of crazy things in the pursuit of future happiness. They are confused about what will really bring them contentment, so they fill their lives with what others have told them will do it.
It took me years of fighting depression and related experiences, to realize, one of the most important things in life is to understand what brings you happiness, personally. Once you understand this you will understand yourself, and your life a lot more, and the chance that you will achieve the happiness you seek, is a lot greater.
"The happiest place on earth." is the slogan of Windell's snowboard camp and for one of my happiest child hood memories. Every year I would work hard for months to try to make the money to go to Windell's. It was perfect, a dream come true. All day, every day, was fun. I would go snowboarding all day, with the best riders teaching you new tricks in one of the best snowboard park's in the world, then come home only to skateboard, paintball, dirt bike, BMX, river raft, or anything else I could ever imagine doing. Everything from the food to the instructors to the general atmosphere was awesome. Because everything was so fun, every one was constantly happy. I could almost feel the happiness in the air around base camp of Windell's.
I looked forward to going to Windell's those ten days all of the other 355. I worked pretty hard for a little kid to get the money to do go. I used to bake sixty pies in the two days prior to our local festival, and then set up a stand titled "Help send me to snowboard camp!" Through all of this work and...