Kayla Hammond - Synthesize Happiness (Choice)

 In a ted talk by Dan Gilbert, "The Surprising Science of Happiness" he explains that we are able to synthesize happiness. He defined synthetic happiness as what we make when we don't get what we want. However, he explained that many people instead chase happiness through the idea of Natural Happiness. This happiness is what we get when we get what we want however this becomes a never ending cycle of constantly wanting something new. According to Martin Buber "Those who experience do not participate for the world. For the experience is 'in them' and not between them and the world. The world does not participate in experience. It allows itself to be experienced, but it is not concerned, for it contributes nothing, and nothing happens to it". Therefore if we constantly are seeking an experience out of something in order to achieve happiness then we will never have real happiness. Instead we need to appreciate what we make out of the things we do not want, for example if you did not want to receive a soda while on a hike you could give it to someone else.