Why Happiness, And Why Other Emotions Matter?

Throughout history, the main emotion people have focused on is happiness and how to achieve happiness, but since the 1950’s, emotional issues and diseases have become more prominent. The end goal of most individuals is happiness, but individuals ignore the fact that all other emotions matter. There are many reasons why other emotions matter, but the two main ones are that because often, the constant pursuit of happiness leads to disappointment and because we do not know the true definition of what emotions are or what happiness is. People need to start caring and pursuing other emotions because at some point in life, they will go through those emotions and then, they will see how important they are.
One of the main reasons why other emotions
This makes it hard to deny the importance of certain emotions or the validity of others. We do know that emotions have a deep impact in personal life. When talking about the question “What is happiness?” Seligman states that “Science can no more presume to answer this question than other classic philosophical questions” (Seligman). If people cannot define the meaning of certain emotions such as happiness, then pursuing it and ignoring other emotions is not a good decision, especially considering how much other emotions affect life. The effects of science and major writers pretending to know the meaning of happiness is that they confuse people as they try to achieve happiness. Most of the time, writers do not take into account how important others emotions really are. Yet, most of the writing done is about or centered around sadness and people going through sad moments. These books inspire people to pursue happiness and never consider other emotions. This is because they have read and have thought that happiness is the only goal one should aim for. Sharon Begley writes that America’s fixation for happiness fosters “a disregard for the value of sadness” (455). People do not put value on other emotions, especially negative ones because they do not know the meaning of them. But as stated earlier, there is no universal meaning of happiness either. In the modern world, the only reason why anyone would consider the topic of emotions is to profit from it. People flock to pursue happiness, not knowing they are being used by corporations and sellers as instruments. What they also do not know is what they are really looking forward to. This affect others that actually have emotions other than happiness. If there is no general and clear definition of emotions, then no emotion should be put aside and all emotions should be considered