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How to be Happy?
Pitchapa Jitsajjapong
or ‘I wish I could just disappear
forever.’ Hearing all of this made me
feel sick and wonder why they can’t
just smile and enjoy the moment they
live. I’m convinced that happiness can
be made if we change our
perspective—of how we view
ourselves.
One of the major reasons causing
depression comes from ‘beauty’ or
‘how others look at us’. Numerous
teenagers are way too addicted to
perfection as if they expect
themselves to look perfectly like an
angel, without realizing that they live
in ‘reality’, where there is none such a
thing called perfection. Looking into
the mirror, they start to hate
themselves more and more, just
Over a decade, there were more than because of their appearance which
tens of thousands of teenagers they thought looks ‘ugly’. However,
suffering from depression. No matter one thing that they forget is all people
how many times they tried to seek look good in a different way,
happiness, they always ended up with depending on how they think of
failure, living with fear and anxiety. themselves. It does not matter what
All of this would not have happened color of skins or what body shapes
if they have what is called ‘Being they have, as long as they have
proud of themselves.’The sad fact is, confidence, then everybody can shine
in their own ways. No matter what
depressed teenagers do not value others say to you or what you think of
themselves as much as they should. I yourself, just keep in mind that I am
heard some of them keep saying the one who sees your beauty.
something like ‘I don’t want to be Apart from beauty, studying also
myself anymore’, ‘Being myself sucks’, makes teenagers feel anxious as all of
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