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本篇英国essay代写-The Pursuit of a Happy Life讲了人人都喜欢过幸福的人生常识，为了实现终身幸福生活的目的而不遗余力。然而，不同的人对于幸福生活有不同的定义，他们倾向于具有不同的标准，如何将生活视为幸福生活。本篇essay代写由51due代写平台整理，供大家参考阅读。

Introduction

It is common sense that all the human beings would like to live a happy life and they will spare no efforts in order to realize the purpose of really living a happy life in the end. However, different people have different definitions toward what a happy life is and they tend to have different standards as for how a life is that can be regarded as a happy life. There is no doubt that people will then try different means in order to pursue a happy life based on their definition toward what a happy life is. Therefore the following will talk about the pursuit of a happy life from the perspectives of both Dalai Lama in The Art of Happiness and Viktor E. Frankl in Man’s Searching for Meaning, during which the experiences of some characters from the film Forrest Gump will be applied as evidence. Generally speaking, the pursuit of a happy life in the minds of Dalai Lama and Viktor E. Frankl can be achieved via experiencing sufferings and adversity. It is hoped that this analysis can help people understand what a happy is from a different point of view.

The Pursuit of a Happy Life

First and foremost comes Dalai Lama’s idea toward how to pursue a happy life. In Chapter 8 of The Art of Happiness, “Facing Suffering,” Dalai Lama argues that suffering is an inherent part of human life, and that accepting that suffering is both natural and unavoidable will help us to tolerate adversity and eventually work to remove the causes of suffering: “Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises” (Howard C. Cutler. 2009). From this, we can easily predict that the pursuit of a happy life can be achieved through successfully facing sufferings and then try our best to tolerate adversity so as to grow from the process of experiencing sufferings. 

Just take Lieutenant Dan’s experiences in Forrest Gump as an example, who was born into a military family so that he had longed for creating meritorious service in the battlefield all the time. In his mind, he would like to be written into the annals of history via making contributions in the battlefield. But what is out of his expectation is that he had both his legs amputated because of the Vietnam War and there was no possibility for him to make contributions in the battlefield any more, leading to his jealousy toward Gump’s excellent performance in the battlefield. From what had happened to Lt. Dan, it can be easily imagined that he had experienced sufferings a lot due to the loss of both his legs and he had actually been put into adversity. And that is why he then began to addict himself to alcohol and started to grow a beard out of his psychological unbalance. However, what is fortunate is that he ended up in starting a business with Gump and also became a millionaire at last. So we can readily predict that if Lt. Dan had not experienced the loss of both his legs in the battlefield, he would always try his best to participate in all kinds of war in order to stand out and he might not have the chance to do business with Gump together, resulting in his not gaining the opportunity to become a millionaire in the end. Based on this, Lt. Dan’s still being able to pursue a happy life to be a millionaire after his loss of both his legs can be a powerful embodiment of Dalai Lama’s view that the pursuit of a happy life can be achieved after one has experienced sufferings and adversity.

With the Dalai Lama’s view toward how to pursue a happy life being stated at length in the above, what follows is Viktor E Frankl’s idea as for how to pursue a happy life. When it comes to Viktor E Frankl’s idea as for how to pursue a happy life, it can be detected from the Part II of Man’s Search For Meaning, “Logotherapy in a Nutshell”. In that part, Viktor E Frankl similarly argues that we should not suffer needlessly, but that our attitude toward necessary suffering largely determines the meaning of our individual lives. For Frankl, what matters is not any universal meaning of life, but instead “the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment” (Viktor E. Franklin. 1984). From this, it can be found that Frankl as well holds that people’s attitude toward suffering can, to a great extent, determine the meaning of their life. Thus we can even say that as long as people can have a wise attitude toward suffering, then people can get the opportunity to pursue a happy life in the due time.

Concerning this, I would like to take the example of Forrest Gump as an instance. Detailed speaking, Forrest Gump was rejected by the principal to attend public school and the principal had expressed it in this way to Mrs. Gump that “Forrest is right here. The state requires a minimum I.Q. of eighty to attend public school, Mrs. Gump. He’s gonna have to go to a special school. Now, he’ll be just fine” (Robert Zemeckis. 1994), from this we can know that Forrest Gump was bound to be looked down upon by others out of his lower I.Q. than his peers. At the same time, he had to take advantage of braces on his legs in order to walk since he was a little boy so that he may be regarded as an abnormal one by many people. Forrest Gump’s being abnormal can be seen as the sufferings he had to endure. Under this situation, if Forrest Gump took others’ sarcasm seriously and he gave up himself, then he could only end up as a useless man. But the fact is that Gump just lived a happy life himself and he took no regard of those sufferings at all. What he did is to make gradual efforts to change from walking with the help of braces on his legs to run like the wind and further to become a Rugby star in the end. According to this, we can say that it is Gump’s positive attitude toward sufferings that has enabled him to become the famous Vietnam War hero, the table tennis ambassador as well as the shareholder of a company with more than a dozen shrimp boats.

Apart from that, Frankl also asserts that “being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself” (Viktor E. Franklin. 1984). This is what Frankl understands as human freedom, which he asserts must be exercised with a sense of responsibility. From these sentences, it can be easily gained that one’s meaning of life can only be realized when he/she has served or loved another person, during which process responsibility is a necessity. Besides, the realization of one’s meaning of life is also another effective means for one to pursue a happy life.

Speaking of a sense of responsibility, an impressive character that appears in my mind is Forrest Gump’s mother, Mrs. Gump. The greatest aspect of Mrs. Gump is that she did not give up her son even if she knew that her son’s I.Q. was lower than the standard so that her son would not hold that he was different from others. Just as what had been said by Forrest Gump that “Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them” (Robert Zemeckis. 1994), from which we can know that Mrs. Gump had already taken bringing up her son and protecting him from being hurt as her responsibility. Or maybe it can be put in another way that to protect her son regardless of his lower I.Q. was the meaning of her life and to see her son’s healthy growth was right whether her happy life came from. And the sentence “Remember what I told you, Forrest. You’re no different than anybody else is” (Robert Zemeckis. 1994) that she told her son can well indicate that she still considered her son as normal and would like to bring him up as usual boys. In the opposite, if Mrs. Gump simply listened to what the principal told her to do to send Gump to a special school, then Gump was bound to be influenced by the surrounding environment more or less and he may not be that successful as a result.

As far as I am concerned, I have also personally experienced sufferings and then harvest joy and growth. The concrete condition is that I had decided to go to Japan to study before I came to the United States because of my poor English and I tried to avoid speaking English on purpose. But at the request of my parents, I had no choice but to learn English with the best of my ability. I had to admit that it was really painful at the first place when I just began learning English, but such condition gradually changed and I started to feel like learning English as time went by. Not long after, my English had improved a lot and I found myself kind of loving speaking English in the end. At that time, I felt quite proud of myself and I was really happy that I had listened to my parents’ advice to learn it originally. From my personal experience, I have to admit that to experience pains can really make one become happy in a later period of time and all the efforts that have been made to cope with sufferings definitely count in themselves.

Conclusion

To sum up, a natural conclusion can be drawn that to experience sufferings is absolutely a way to pursue a happy life. As long as people can endure the whole process of sufferings, they are bound to welcome the coming of a happy life afterwards. Thus what people have to do is to clench their teeth to cope with all the sufferings and never give up, contributing to their being smooth at helping themselves out of the sufferings at last. What can not be denied is that people can also pursue a happy life in different ways as have not been illustrated in the above, which asks for them to discover.

Works Cited

Howard C. Cutler. The Art of Happiness. New York: Riverhead Books. 2009.

Robert Zemeckis. Forrest Gump. Monument Valley, Arizona. July 6, 1994. 

Viktor E. Franklin. Man’s Searching for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press. 1984.

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