英语作文：what do you have a happy life?初三水平

Happiness is a state of mind which can only be inculcated in a mind and developed but not acquired through material possessions . Many people confuse happiness with pleasure which is wrong. A man may be a billionaire but still unhappy whereas a pauper may be far happier.

There was a time when people didn't have much money or luxuries nor beautiful and comfortable hours. But they spent their tension- free life in the lap of nature, enjoying God- given bounties like fresh air, cool breeze, pure lakes and river water and sun-shine and warm sun-rays which now have not much significance for the modern tension- ridden men.

I do not believe that a man ,who has a big bank balance, a vast immovable property and land ,a huge pack of shares ,a fleet of cars fitted with A.C. and cell-phones and an army of servants, is certainly happy. It is ,of course ,not bad to endeavour to attain material comforts, but to be a materialistically- minded is a ban