| Subjective notion of happiness has been studied in | | | | death trying to live happy last moments. He teaches |
| many disciplines over centuries. People spend all the | | | | us a lesson – to live the life to the fullest pointing |
| life searching for happiness and peace. They try to | | | | out that ‘when you learn how to die, you learn |
| reach frivolous dreams in a hope to find happiness. | | | | how to live’. |
| The thing is that people need to look inside | | | | A human being cannot be happy all the time. In |
| themselves and to find balance and harmony to | | | | general, happiness is an abstract notion and everyone |
| become happy. | | | | has its own understanding of it. In ‘The stolen |
| Happiness is not a mere dream a person has to reach | | | | party’ Liliana Hecker illustrates the death of a |
| and become happy. It is the state of mind a person | | | | delusion of a young girl Rosaura. She is treated by |
| creates right now. Happiness is a reaction to actions | | | | Senora Ines as a servant allowing only Rosaura into |
| that happen to a person. Consequently, happiness is a | | | | the kitchen as she knows her house ‘so much |
| person’s positive attitude to the life in general | | | | better than the others’ and giving her the |
| and to some certain moments in the life in particular. | | | | payment for her services during the party. Rosaura is |
| Happiness means a conscious life for the major | | | | a victim of a society who has got into a |
| character of ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ written | | | | dehumanizing situation because of her social position. |
| by Albom. Although he knows he has ALS and will die | | | | She cannot be happy under no circumstances with |
| soon, he tries to grasp every happy moment of his | | | | people who surround her. Thus, according to the |
| life. | | | | author happiness is in a higher social position of a |
| Morrie finds happiness in a communication with his | | | | person. People of equal status communicate with |
| family and a friend. ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ is | | | | each other as equal, thus, they can find happiness in |
| a vivid example of the triumph of the human spirit in | | | | it. Even in a dehumanizing situation a person can find |
| a world of chaos, suffering and death. Morrie has a | | | | happiness, like Rosaura does. |
| strong spirit that does not bend down in the face of | | | | |