"Happiness, true happiness; is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy" (Dada Vaswani). This quote, like many, describes that peace is hard to achieve. Bur is true peace is different for every person, who is to say what peace really is? "At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division" (Jesse Jackson). Looking on the other side of peace would be turbulence. This quote, by Jesse Jackson, states that when there are hardships in ones life, it is…show more content… Many people believe that to be happy in life you need to have a copious amount of money or be extremely successful. However, to some, the greatest happiness is being calm and in touch with ones self identity. To be tranquil is considerably the best joy that one can experience throughout life. If you look from another point of view, though, staying busy can be the most stress free concept. Being active and essentially unavailable brings a peace and soothing vibe all on its own. Now, to those who prefer a more calm life, staying overloaded with work or problems can be a very frightening notion. And, for those who love to be engrossed in work, having a serene and mild day is quite a foreign perception. Although these two prospects are utterly different, they both allow for one to reach maximum peace according to ones preferences and ideas of a happy and successful…show more content… I love to walk through the school halls in the morning with nothing to do but walk, or lay down in my nice comfy bed at home watching movies or reading a book. All the same, I also find much satisfaction in having a tough hard volleyball practice or having a furious, yet organized debate. All of these things are such relaxing tasks for me, even though some are very low-key while others are entirely time consuming and at times, overwhelming. Everything I do depends on my mood and how I'm feeling at a certain time. If I feel excessively board and have absolutely nothing to do, I highly relish going for a nice run while blasting my music. It is so nice to tune out the demands of life that accumulate vigorously as time goes on. On the other hand, if I am exhausted or something has become immensely troublesome for me, I greatly appreciate time alone so that I can think and work through a problem thoroughly. Both tranquility and turbulence are parts of my life that I deal with and learn to accept as I become my own
