Happiness Engrained in us, as society and our parents have taught us, is a lifelong goal we must all attain, all must strive to experience, happiness. But as we learn to understand what it means to be happy, as society has taught throughout time, we also learn to understand that there is no clear definition of happiness for it intangible. Thus, upon evaluating the definition of the word happiness offered by Oxford English Dictionary, which defines it as “the quality or condition of being happy,” several questions come to my mind with this definition because of its vagueness. Is happiness a feeling you can describe to others? Is it a physical state of euphoria or is it an emotional state, a simple feeling? How can one acquire this happiness if he or she feels as if it has not been attained? How does one even know he or she is happy? Happiness is not physical; it cannot be measured, or acquired directly from others through physical contact. There is no clear definition that we can all agree upon, but we do know that happiness for every individual is found through different outlets, drawn from different experiences, and is experienced in different ways. We often hear, “money can buy happiness,” and although some may argue that it can, how can materialism result in the creation of euphoric feelings? The answer is simple; it cannot, yes although a Lamborghini Aventador, a 300+ foot yacht may make others believe one is happy, a study conducted by Woodrow Wilson’s School at Princeton University in 2010 may beg to differ. According to the study, money may buy happiness up until one makes $75,000 a year, for no matter how much more one may make above the $75,000 benchmark, one’s degree of happiness does not change significantly. Why? Because, according to the study, the more one makes, the more he or she feels his or her life is working out as a whole. Researchers of the