Essay from Nasiba Kamalova

Central Asian teen girl with long light brown hair, reading glasses, and a fluffy white blouse with a bow in the front.
Nasiba Kamalova
What is happiness for you?

Everyone imagines happiness differently, but the scope of this concept is much wider than our scope of thinking and it cannot be expressed in a single case. Let's say that the birth of a person
is happiness, marrying someone you love is happiness, and having children is happiness. Also, receiving parental blessings is happiness for a child, to have a car, to build a house, to achieve some other dreams... They are, all of them can be happiness for some people. 

These states, which people know as happiness, can be continued as long as they want. But there is such happiness among them that to be a guest of it is a great example of perfection. This is to be loyal to the Motherland, to show self-sacrifice for the development of society, peace, and tranquility of compatriots. Also, happiness can be, to love people, to look at them impartially, with the eyes of love, to recognize that everyone is a person like himself and that they are equal
before the Creator. Even greater happiness for me is that I am a young generation of a peaceful country called Uzbekistan.

The word "Motherland" itself has a broad meaning. Our world is one of the meadows, where nature is our land, and faith in God is a blessing. Unfortunately, many estimate happiness to be wealth in this life. Wealth is not an indicator of happiness. For example, a great Russian scientist saw his happiness in creating rockets. He lived by eating leftovers from kitchens. But even in such conditions, he considered himself happy. Being full can be a small factor in feeling happy.

Satisfying human needs at least to a moderate level also creates the basis for happiness. Sometimes even people who have enough of everything feel unhappy. What should people do to feel happy?

Coming into this world as a human is happiness, and leaving it as a human is even more happiness. Nonetheless, we are not always able to appreciate the value of happiness. Getting up early to see the sunlight and breathing every moment of our life is unlimited happiness. It's about being able to feel it and enjoy the blessings of the world.

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual
experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." 
-- Denis Waitley