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 Upon reading the book written by Eric Weiner, tiled "Geography of Bliss",  I came to the understanding that happiness is something relative. Happiness depends, on my opinion, on your particular feelings and how you take your life experiences and what you make of them. Weiner on his book, describes how Bhutan was a city rated as one of the happiest in the world. This is something that Weiner felt very interested about, and decided to visit. Upon arriving at the country, he was greeted with the great hospitality and friendliness. But to me, this seemed as it was a forced happiness. The Bhutanese, to me, appeared as if they were happy because their king was happy, they didn't feel happiness because they genuinely felt it.

  Everyone experiences happiness in different ways, and definitely culture, country and religion greatly influence this. I live in the country and small island of Puerto Rico. We often are celebrated as being one big happy country that if given the opportunity, celebrates anything and everything. As everything, not always its all fun and celebration. Puerto Rico has been under public scrutiny for over so many years because of the debt caused by the corruption of many politics. But even given this situation, I am grateful to be called Puertorrican, because even in the greatest adversity, we manage to face our everyday lives with a smile and great joy of our country.

  But happiness is not always "measured" you can say, the same way. As I mentioned before, happiness is relative. What makes a person happy, might make another angry. In Weiner's chapter describing his visit to Bhutan, we can see how the Bhutanese people don't ponder much into the reflection about what makes them happy or nor, they just go on in their everyday journey enjoying everything that life and that day has to offer. We must not worry too much about the things that make us sad or keep us from resting at night. We must understand that sadness is temporary and that everyday the rising of the sun gives us another opportunity to go about our day and experience our new happiness. Because sometimes, all this worrying and overthinking causes us to miss those opportunities and/or experiences that would've granted is happiness, even if it was just for a moment. It's those little moments that we must embrace, because when we're older, most probably what we remember the most, will be those little moments, thus we have to make every day count and not delve  too much on sad and stressful things, and make everyday, a happy day.

"What doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest."
                                    – Eric Seiner