演讲_happiness.doc

My understanding of happiness
It’s my great pleasure to stand here to present my speech. Today, I’m going to talk about my understanding of happiness.
What is happiness? Do money, power, beauty, make us happy? Or make us happy for only a while? Actually, happiness is a feeling from your heart. We might feel  happy when we get a "A" in the test, but what is true happiness?
As you know, in educational circles, Confucius said that it is wonderful to repeat when learning new things. In the field of physics , Newton was a single man in his life-time, but he own a felicitous life; In the sport world , Kobe Bryant was so cheerful that beat the adversaries.
But for man in the street , it's very easy to get happiness. We just need several honest friends around us. Because of the existence of friends around us, we escape from lonely, and make our life more fantastic. When we feel happy, share with friends, happiness is increasing. When we get hurt, pour to our friends, the pain will decrease. When we make progress, friends will always be proud of you. When we make mistakes, friends will also help you to correct them. When we are ill, we can usually get a light greeting from our friends. When we fall into trouble, friends will try their best to help us. They are all happiness, aren't they?
Happiness is not just the money. It's the communication between our friends and ourselves. Because of the communication, we find our life more interesting. And these can't exchange from money. Taste your life more every day, you will find that everyone has happiness, just we desire it.
Imagine that you have the chance to enter a house with all the happiness mankind ever had, and all you need to enter are keys for the 3 locks on the front door. In order to possess true “happiness”, you must do whatever you can to find the keys and open the door. What would you use for the keys to “be happily ever after”?
If I ever get the chance burst through the door of happiness, here are my keys.
I would use “love” as my first key. “Love” has the definition of a strong feeling of affection. Love has the power to give a person enormous courage to accomplish nearly everything. Giving or receiving love brings happiness to you also. According to Stephanie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, love is the best part of any story, in that love promotes a happy life.
The second key is “satisfaction”, the fulfillment of one’s wishes, expectation, or needs, or the pleasure derived from this. Nowadays, with all the high-tech and significant developments going on, people are slowly losing the feeling of being satisfied. When they get what they want, they often hunger for more and even more. Sometimes dissatisfaction can be helpful when it’s related to achieving your goals, but being unsatisfied all the time can go beyond the limit, and create misery in your life. Fighting against materialism and accepting how perfect everything has been is absolutely a key to a happy life.