Making Education Count To Happiness

     My perspective towards education has always been like a process in which i have
to confront to pursue a well being in the future. I find myself so intrigue to learn that

every day that I come to college I will end up learning something new by the end of the day . Sometimes the thoughts of whether if i will be able to reach up to the end of my

 education bring up so much stress. Which bring up other problems when trying to get

 work done at college i see that i tend to fall in the term of procrastinating. Which is the

 hobby of thinking that work is better to leave of till the last minute instead of beginning

 early and students find to do things more incorrect when using this method. This has

 been away in which i have done most of my work at college leaving it for the last

 minute. It might be because of the when i think of school work i prefer to do what is

 making me happier  at that moment and leave it a side. I am sure that a lot of us know

 how hard it is to find school work fun and enjoyable.

 Education has been part of my life for 13 years and it has made of me mostly

everything the way i speak,  how i write, the way i think , and the way i express my selfto others. I feel very great to know that i have chosen to attend college and learn evenmore things that i could integrate in to my life. Sometimes the feeling of boredom andanxiety  comes when difficult projects are given and  my hobby of falling in toprocrastination becomes a  big problem leaving big projects till the last minute. I havethought of many steps how to change my ways of working with school tasks and how to make education experience more fun and enjoyable for me. My first step was to makemy days at college a bit more creative and not think of the difficult task that need to be done. Maybe adding other creative tasks like working out or getting involved in the aquatics team could bring better experiences and enjoy classes as i learned from the video that i saw at class by  Ken Robinson. ( Says that schools kill creativity) 

At college i have experience the seriousness of having a paper due on time. The

responsibility that must have been taken to be able to reach far and gain my goal. I

have a bad hobby of falling into procrastination that sometimes leads me with low

grades. Then the feeling of regret i should of done this better earlier than now those are

questions that come into mind. I have thought of many ways how to deal with this

problem and i have notice a way to find myself in the zone like the chart on the book of

Happier by Tal Ben- Shahar  describes ( that everyone has a way to find their best time

to be on the zone and actually love and enjoy your work). So I tried to experiment on

myself and to try to find out in what kind of environment and at what time do I feel great

to learn and get information into my brain. I was surprised to find out that I actually got

happy when i read and learned new things. One day I went to the library at the college

and headed to the second floor and saw no interruptions or place more quiet than that

place and at early ours. I started to focused work and left the TV and video games

hobbies a side. Ate something good in the morning after a good 8 hour sleep and open

the test book in the library an I notice that i did not felt boredom or anxiety just  felt in the

zone.
    Other Impacts that tend to break you away from reaching an enjoyable education are

the facts of real life matters. In my case i was not lucky to get the advantages that most

of people get from the government. I have been working at my at my full time job and

paid my education for 2 years. Things are pretty difficult for me to just be concentrating

on school work when I have other things to worry outside school. I notice that a lot my

friends have that opportunity to reach an education and be someone don not take those

chances. So I look at myself and feel proud with the little i earn i have accomplished

and done something that will take me on forward. Some people  usually tell me why do I

keep wasting money on college and I answer them back “ it’s not a waste of money is

an investment for my own person and my future”

            Education for me is now a really concern and a path I and almost everyone must

go on to make a part of them to be someone in life. Barriers might be seen difficult but

could be overcome and great achievements will be accomplished when I find myself at

the place I want to be at and be who I want to be. To make education my progress I

must undergo huge steps and always try to make it easy and enjoyable as I can. This

will cause the happiness in learning and being at a place where I can learn and

socialize with many other minds and what motivation is better than happiness but

happiness itself  so ill keep forward to accomplish my dream of working for a

multimillionaire corporation.      

                                                           Work Cited
   

• Schools kill creativity, Ken Robinson, TED 2006, Filmed February 2006

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

• TAL BEN - SHAHAR, PH.D, Happier. McGraw - Hill Companies: May,10,2007

Education = Happiness

Is education the way to prosper and meet the goal of reaching happiness. That is a good question almost everybody ask themselves when reaching adult hood. We find ourselves in an era were education has expanded to thousands of subjects leading to many kinds of jobs but do everyone knows for sure what he or she wants to be when they grow up. At childhood we dream of what we want to be and it looks easy like a dream to come true but as you grow those dreams and goals start being blocked by barriers and situations of the real life.

In my case i appreciate the fact that i have had the strength and taken the steps to reach were i am right now, i feel mostly less worried than all of my family members. Mainly because i am the only one that has ever stepped in a college and reached a higher education. I feel that being here at this moment writing this paper is a privilege to take advantage,of showing all my class mates my skills and thoughts and learn from my mistakes. I do think that the higher i go in my education i will make a better person of my self in the future. I am in the 3rd semester almost reaching the end of my 2 year associate degree and i ask my self that this is just half way of what is ahead. This causes the many question and doubts of whether i should stay in college or just start focusing on any job that i find.

The feeling of going through the stages of education for me is like walking through a rope above an abyss of many temptations of giving up but each step that i take and i find that I am still in balance. I feel happy to find my self there and that if i continue like this i will soon reach the end of this walk and be happy to know that i reached a goal that was dreamed years ago. I have thought that as long as i have a job and find my self stable i will keep having time to keep up with my education as hard the obstacles are. I find in my self a motivation that tells me that if i keep this way the opportunities to work in a place were i will feel comfortable and socially interact with many others at my same level will make me feel great.

So as i have explained and ask this question again can education bring a well balanced life and happiness within? My answer is yes it totally can as long as you keep up with that will to thrive and succeed there will be no limits. you might not end up wealthy but happier you will. Data shown from a article that we read in our English class  explained in a dotted graph the correlation between those that had higher education levels and those that had lower education levels. The graph from the article posted to the New york times by Catherine Rampell showed that education ha brought good capital and a well balanced life and brings a positive feed back making persons realize that they represent something good for themselves and for their families.

Well do i think if my education is going to lead me in to a happy future? yes i think it will as long as my experiences in life lead me to something good. Hoping that every day that passes lead me to my goal and for once cross that rope and see that i have made it. see that within me i always thought that staying in school was the best choice i have made in my life. Hoping that when i do i can refer back to this paper and think how hard i worked and smile.