Happiness

“I can laugh out loud...and it feels good. It reaches all the way down to the bottom of my shoes. (Pause) Rose, I can't give that up”, says Troy. For Troy happiness is something that make all his problems and pressure go away. For him happiness is that he can be himself. He just want to care about himself.

But his happiness clashes with that of Rose’s. His attempt to be happy is taking away happiness of Rose. For Rose, happiness is just spending all her life with him. All her hopes are from her husband who is cheating on her. But on his side he is just being happy.

Society presents happiness as a thing which we need to search. It makes it a thing which should be prior to everything, which it should be. It tells you to be selfish for it but it doesn’t allow so. In reality society won’t let you be the way they define happy person. If we consider Troy, he became selfish for his happiness. He wanted to be happy so he hooked up with some other girl. Society “wants” everyone to be happy but it wouldn’t allow him to cheat on his wife even if he is just trying to be happy.

How this society presents happiness differs a lot from the reality of this society. When this society presents happiness it considers only one side of the stance. It doesn’t really thinks that if it is saying a person to be selfish for his happiness it can take away someone else’s happiness. But reality considers all of this. In reality this society won’t consider you as a happy person if you become selfish for it. It will only see you as someone who is taking away someone else’s happiness. Troy won’t be considered as a happy person. This society will call him a cheater only.