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Speech On Happiness

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Billions of people all over the would strive for happiness. It is the main driving factor about why humans do goals that they set. Age, maturity level, and personal interests have an effect on what brings an individual happiness.
Today's society sees happiness as having a plentiful amount of money so someone can buy their way to happiness. Consequently, a multitudinous amount of people may assume money can buy happiness, but contrary to popular belief, miniscule details that compose our daily lives are the building blocks to happiness.

People spend a large amount of their lives working to survive in the economy we have created. If the economy can affect happiness, then what is happiness to a child in Africa that lives in a cramped hut? Happiness for that child is different from a chief executive officer of a corporation in the United States of America. For the child, happiness could come in the form of food or gifts shipped from people in other countries to distribute to children just like them. The CEO may not bat an eye at food as long as they know they are easily able to obtain food. For them, eating is not a special treat. The CEO could be greedy and have a false sense of happiness by accumulating as much money as they can.
This is a result of false happiness. What does money sitting in a bank vault do to cause someone to be happy? Is what the person experiencing just caused by looking at six digits on the bank statement? No,

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