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In my personal life, the archetype of “happiness” had been imposed on me; the media had constrained me to believe that wealth and success were the only measures of one’s happiness. I now know that these ideologies are false. I had found myself in a maze without a clear beginning or end; lost. Although thoughts of materialism had infested my mind with uncertainty, I finally managed to find what happiness is to me. I have realised that no amount of money, power, or status can ever make me happy; having scaled the walls of the maze, I am finally able to comprehend the beauty that lay outside my prison. I am only beginning my pursuit of happiness, but I am able to fathom only by stepping over my boundaries will I someday, achieve a state of