Journal Entry 4

Zhen 1

Kenneth Zhen

English 21003, Section M

Professor Matyakubova

24 September 2017

Journal Entry #4

            After reading the article  "13 Things That Will Make You Happier" by Dr. Travis Bradberry. I do agree but as the same time I don’t agree with the author’s claims about how happiness depends on yourself. Yes, there are some things that make us happy we can control, but not all things. Everyone is different in terms of feelings and emotions and each person has their own unique sense of humor and personality. Something that makes another person happy doesn’t make everyone else happy. I believe it’s hard to control the human emotion, being controlled by our emotions is what makes us humans. Humans are not perfect and everyone has their own flaw in life and being depressed can be one of them. One thing I do agree is that isolation is something someone can control, isolating yourself from society will make one depressed.

            All professionals should strive to maintain positive because being positive not only does it help the professional’s reputation but it also benefits the readers. Not everyone can handle the negative attitude or criticization especially when its towards them. By using positive attitude it helps the reader understand, it also can help pursue the readers to change. When reading an article many people prefer to read an article with a positive attitude because it can encourage readers with positivity.