We decided
It was a sunny day. We decided to have a picnic outside the city. In the mning, we took an early bus to Nanhui. It was quite a colful wld. there were GREen trees, ange leaves,red peach blossoms. At noon, we reached the place, we sat by the river bank and took out a lot of things, such as bread, ange juice, apples, cakes, eggs and so on.

But all of a sudden, it began to rain. Unluckily there was no shelter nearby. We had to take a bus to go back home in a hurry.What an unfgettable picnic it was! Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The auths of the American Declaration proclaimed happiness to be one of the essential rights that make life wth living.

William James, the first American psychologist, echoed this emphasis on happiness: "If we were to ask the question: What is human lifes chief concern? One of the answers we should receive would be: It is happiness." Every philosophical and religious system has offered its pathway to happiness f the individual and the group.

Happiness has been related to pleasure, refuge from pain, intellectual contemplation, union with God, friendship, children, wealth, hon, successful activity, and even state burial with statues! Today, scientists have joined the dialogue to seek answers about what contributes to happiness , as they call it, "subjective well-being".

If happiness is activity in accdance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accdance with the highest excellence. Aristotle The concept of happiness--while difficult to define-- is obviously here to stay. But the desire f happiness can set up expectations that are often hard to fulfill.