Happiness Journey

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Eric Weiner, writer of the book Geography of Bliss, wanted to show how someone can reach happiness by traveling.  The main character was born in 1963 “year of the smiley face”, is a little ironic because he doesn’t consider himself a happy person.  He also says, the you write about you know and that he has travelled to unhappy places like Iraq etc… we can assume this is because that what he know or he is: an unhappy person.

A quote that I found interesting was: “happiness is not inside of us but out there”. That quote can then answer my statement that the main character is in search of happiness by travelling. We read the chapter 3 which is a travel to Bhutan “Happiness Is a Policy”.  The Character says that Bhutan national anthem is happiness as a doctrine of Lord Buddha. In this country happiness is an important thing for their culture.
Happiness is culture, so in some way, happiness is relative.  Citizens of a country depend a lot of their cultural view of what things are, how moral works and the emotional view of things. I think that what can make me happy, for another person it doesn’t mean that my feelings will be same as mine. Like in this stories, his way of searching for happiness is travelling because he has being all his live an unhappy person.
In easy words, happiness depends in you, depends of your moral views, the way you see things, and your emotional view of things.  In addition, happiness depends also in your social construct which is culture.  Culture is an important part because like we have already said, is something that has influence in you that comes by default in our lives.