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Happiness is a state where a person feels joy and excitement, and it is something that many people seeks in their life. Although every person has a way of having a happy state, I feel happy whenever I play video games because it is one of my hobbies. I remember that I always played online games when I was a kid. After coming home from school, I remember that I always played online games for hours until night. As a kid, I was always happy that I got to play video games every day because I had so much free time without having so many lessons outside of school. I was under the impression that because playing games is exciting and enjoyable, I assumed it could bring me true happiness. Unfortunately, I was wrong and became addicted to playing video games because I played too much, and now I realize that it was the opposite of real happiness. Since I became addicted, my grades started to go down, and my parents became angry. My parents became strict with me and monitored my activities at home so that I didn't play too much. Moreover, my addiction to playing video games also makes me lazy as I always want to play games. So, at the end of my elementary school, I started to change and began to control my playing hours and try new things like playing badminton as my new hobby.

As we know, people can attain happiness correctly by accomplishing their goals or doing something positive that they like. Still, there are also some wrong and dangerous ways to achieve happiness. One of the examples is doing something that we like excessively to the point of addiction, like gaming addiction. Although we find that playing games make us happy, sometimes it also can hurt us when we become addicted to it. The addiction that people have can damage them through their physical health and mental health. Therefore, the happiness that we have should not burden us because of some harmful or destructive effects that we get from doing something that we love. 352 words.

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In order to answer my critical question, I will try to answer it based on the five articles that I read and summarized. There are some reasons why some people use wrong or dangerous ways to attain happiness. The first reason that I noticed is that some people only want an easy or straightforward way to achieve happiness without working hard, because if happiness can be achieved by accomplishing goals, then some of these activities like video games addiction, drugs addiction, or internet addiction are simple and easy way because people only need to spend small efforts to achieve happiness. These addictions can happen because they spend too much time on something that they like or use it excessively because they think it can give them happiness. Moreover, the happiness or joy that they feel will most likely not to last long. More actions like hedonism and consumerism activities also will lead us to happiness, but I think the happiness that people can gain from those activities is only temporary. Besides that, those activities also have harmful or negative side effects. For example, internet addiction can lead people to have mental problems like lower self-esteem or anxiety. Meanwhile, consumerism people need to have a solid financial background so that they can maintain their lifestyle of consumption, or they will go bankrupt because of their lifestyle where they spend too much on something they don’t really need. Therefore, these dangerous and wrong ways only give us temporary happiness with harmful side effects.

The second reason some people do these dangerous things to achieve happiness is because of their mindset. For example, hedonistic people are likely to seek pleasure because they believe and have the mindset that a good life should be filled with a pleasurable life, and they also think that pleasure is the primary motivator of human behavior. Moreover, some people also have a personality like sensation seeking, which focuses on seeking pleasure from doing varied and intense activities. Therefore, when people do something that they like excessively, they feel no guilt when enjoying this kind of activity because they have the mindset that they should have a pleasurable life. It is also the same as a consumptive person because they also have almost the same mindset that they always need to purchase new products to attain happiness because people think they can get pleasure and happiness from buying products.

Hence, I believe that people can achieve true happiness when they fight for it, and they can achieve happiness when they have accomplished the goals that they have set. Thus if people only get temporary pleasure or happiness and also get harmful side effects from what they do to achieve happiness, then there is something wrong in their process of pursuing their own happiness. 464 words.

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