We Have No Right For Happiness - 1167 Words

Gabriel Esparza English 300 Professor Marks March 8, 2016 We Have No Right To Happiness In C.S Lewis essay, â€Å" We Have No Right To Happiness, he argues that we the people within the world don’t have the right to happiness. In my right being who can accuse such a thing. Everyone has the right to be happy in my opinion. Perhaps look for instance even our Declaration of Independence says â€Å" We have the right to pursue happiness.† I find it somewhat fascinated and yet nothing has changed in our culture since such as author C.S Lewis has wrote this short essay. I truly believe that people know how to be happy and express it, but perhaps they just assume on having a good reason to not be satisfied with their daily lives. I nessaccly feel†¦show more content†¦Unlike C.S Lewis example of Mr. A deserting his wife and family, for Mrs. B as doing the same leaving her crippled veteran husband for Mr. A seeking a happier life, never did I picture my parents doing such a thing. As for personal life, my father sticked with my mother till the very as s he was diagnosed with cancer. Don’t intended to be a downer but isn’t true marriage till the end if im not wrong. Lewis quotes â€Å" When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also I must put it crudely good people.† Having reading such a passage I consider my father â€Å"good people† sticking his morals and what s right, on not abandoning his family even as widow at end of it, as unlike C.S Lewis example of Mr. A who broke moral laws. But, again who am I too say, about marriage, as I never once was. Moreover a second reason, why I give inn on disagreeing are the mentions and ideas of â€Å"sexual impulses†. Lewis addresses his meaning to such happniess through sexaul impluse. He proclaims â€Å" happiness is really only sexual happiness†, in my right being what is he trying to say? 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