believe there is more than one path to happiness. Clearly not everyone values the same in life or would agree that what is good for others is good for them. Certain people live healthy lives jogging and maintain their desired weight while others find it physically impossible to jog because of an injury. Some people wish to be rich to indulge in what they want to be happy while others wish for health to live long happy lives. A drug addict considers his life to be perfect and righteous because consuming drugs is what makes him happy despite the negative health effects and poor choices while under the influence.

2. Our desires are up to us and constantly change depending on what it is that we wish to have or accomplish. When choosing the path to what we consider a good life we must adjust our desires to our lifestyle so that they are obtainable and bring happiness. Some desires may become obsessions that can lead to unhappiness. We can choose what we want but it does not mean that we will get it or that in the end it is for good for us. We all desire different things in hopes of being happy but are never satisfied with the end result and set new objectives and change our wants. One person can ask to be rich and think that money will make them happy only to realize that they are diagnosed with an incurable disease. At that point, their only desire is for health which cannot be obtained. There are things in life that are out of our reach despite how hard we work for them or how much we want them which makes me believe that the desire theory does not lead to happiness.

4. We all at one point have made decisions based on what we desired and thought that it would lead to happiness to later find out it wasn’t the best choice after all. A person that seeks someone outside of their marriage may be driven by the desire theory thinking that their happiness is outside of home. There are many cases in which a person feels their life is monotonous which leads them to seek adventure thinking it will cause them to be happy. Many families have been broken because of infidelity and although the person at the moment was seeking happiness they become unhappy because they end up getting divorced and missing out on their children’s life or end up dead if they have a crazy spouse.

6. There is always a rational explanation to pursue what we want and not seem self-interested. A person that is too lazy to throw garbage in the trash can argue that the reason he did that was to allow those that clean the streets to maintain their jobs when in reality he did that to avoid getting out of his car. In the example of the soldier that threw himself on the grenade, many can say he had no self-interest but it can be argued that he chose to die to avoid survivor’s remorse. A person that smokes although causing harm to themselves is seeking what makes them happy at the moment whether it to relief stress or filming a movie that requires a smoking scene although they don’t smoke.