Summary Of Lizzy Bamford - 1548 Words

Lizzy Bamford Over seven billion people roam this planet searching. Looking for a purpose or a reason for why they are where they are. The actual probability of existing today is one in four hundred trillion. That s a miracle. So what is our purpose and why us? According to Market Wired about 53% of the human population considers themselves happy, so why is one of the most googled questions â€Å"how to be happy?†? All of this started to strike a chord with me so I decided to dig deeper and try and answer some of my own questions. So happiness is officially defined as feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. Sounds pretty straight forward I thought, but then I started to look at the big picture. In a day there are twenty four hours and I spend about 7 at school, two after school in the musical, 2 doing homework, 5 doing random but necessary things like driving or making food,6 sleeping and the last 2 I would bet I waste by daydreaming. But how happy am I? While I enjoy school and musical most of the time I wanted to see if I was really happy. To test this I would stop myself every hour and evaluate my emotions. I would quickly write down my emotions from most prominent to least (I used the well known movie Inside Out to help me a little.) Most of the time my list looked as follows: Joy Anxiety Sadness Anger Disgust Sometimes anger and sadness would switch places, but this was pretty normal. I obviously had hours where I was super stressed so anxiety dominated and the