Why do I go to UCLA?
To go to medical school.
Why do I want to go to medical school?
To become a doctor.
Why do I want to become a doctor?
To save lives and make money.
Why do I want to save lives?
To make me happy.
Why do I want to make money?
To support my family and buy nice things.
Why do I want to support my family?
Because it will make me happy.
Why do I want to buy nice things?
To impress those around me and to make me happy.
Why do I want to impress others?
To make me happy.
Why do I want to be happy?
My whole life revolves around me wanting to be happy. I do everything I do because it will eventually get me the many things that will all in the end make me happy. Everything that I do even now is done to make me happy. I play soccer because I enjoy it. If something is enjoyable, it makes me happy. I hangout with my friends because when we do, we have fun. If something is fun, it makes me happy. I watch the shows that I do on television because they are funny. If something is funny, it makes me happy.
Happiness is the force that keeps me going. It is an emotion that controls my life and without it, I don’t know where I would be. I can’t imagine myself doing things for any other reason or emotion. I avoid things that make me sad or angry and I don’t do things just for the sake of doing them, so there always has to be a reason. This reason is happiness. But why do I want to be happy? I don’t know. This leads me to believe that the question of why people want to be happy cannot be answered. There can never be a true answer to this question because the true answer is unknown. There are no why’s passed happiness but this is the reason I do what I do.
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