John Lennon said, "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."
When I first heard this quote by John Lennon I was touched. I like going on the internet and reading what famous people said. Anyways, this helped me fully understand on the thought process in Lennon's mind; like he was only five years old and he had a basic, yet powerful understanding of life. Being happy is different than being content. Being content, to me, is tolerating something and if you have to tolerate anything then you aren't happy. Being happy, to me, is hard to explain. To be happy is being happy, you know? Life is happiness. Life is hard to explain, thus making happiness equally as hard to explain.
The meaning of life, to me, is... well, I have no idea. I would really have to think about it. I know happiness plays a key role to the meaning of life, but I also know that there is more to it. Now that I think about it, many people nowadays say things like "Oh blah and blah is life," referring to 'life' as a sense of whole and completeness. Like saying 'blah and blah' is a good thing. At least that's what I think. But um now that I had the time to really had the chance to think it through, I came up with this: Life is being happy. Life is being sad. Life is anything you want it to be.
