Essay #3 (Happiness in the Modern World) (By Michael Li) (March 12/2014) Are you happy? Do you know what happiness is? How happy are you? Everyone wants to be happy and wants to know that they have plenty of it. Happiness is what everyone is looking for in the world. People need happiness, similar to air and water. The truth is that happiness is hard to maintain, it's a hard thing to hold on to. Is happiness just a feeling? How do you know if you have it or not? What can we do to achieve this when we don't have it? Is wealth happiness? When you see someone who lives in a $20 million house and drives multi-million dollar cars, it doesn't mean that person is entirely happy. In fact, wealth is a status symbol. This may make others assume whether someone is happy, but it does not guarantee that one will have a happy life. A clichéd phrase is often used in our modern society: “Money can’t buy happiness.” This phrase is common because it is true. People with high status and extremely wealthy positions may be unhappy, unlike others without wealth or status....