What is happiness? Is it just a life filled with playing and laughter? There are many simple pleasures in lif that children may be better able to enjoy, such as games, sweets and imagniary friends. However, there are so many profoundly happy moments that adult can enjoy that a child could not comprehend. The joy of your wedding day, graduating from university, watching your baby take his first step. These important events create such deep feelings of happiness, and can only be experienced, truly, by adults.
The kind of happiness a child experiences may be best described by the quote “Ignorance is bliss.” A child lives primarily in the moment, with little regard for what may happen in the future, especially bad things that may happen. An adult can more fully understand the negative consequences that will come from a bad decision today. To understand an adults capacity for happiness, we must understand their capacity for sorrow. The human soul is like a vessel that expands as it ages. A child will feel any emotion strongly, it doesn’t take much to fill him up. But that emotion is fleeting, ready to be replaced by what comes in the next minute or hour. A grown adult can wheather the daily changes between joy, sorrow, and everything between, because they have a reserve of past emtion that helps keep them centered. But in some few moments in life, an adult soul can be overwhelmed with happiness in a way not possible for a child.
In many ways, a child is infinitely happier than an adult. They are carefree, unburdened by life, and able to see the world as a giant playground. Adults must deal with problems nearly every day, they must deal with tragedy, they must deal with loss. But it is perhaps because of an adults deeper understanding of sadness, that they have a greater capacity to appreciate joy and happiness when it presents itself. A child may experience happiness more regularly and consistently than an adult, but that hapiness is a more superfical happiness. It cannot compare to the profound moments of pure joy that can be felt by an adult, an adult that has the experience and understanding to appreciate this feeling they have.
The student provides a thoughtful discussion of happiness. Rather than simply saying that one group is definitely happier than the other, he explains that each group is happy in a different way. He uses his reasoning to conclude that adults are able to experience a deeper happiness because they also experience pain and sorrow. He does have several typos and spelling errors. His points, though, are still understandable. Typos and errors are not a big problem unless they are so numerous that the reader has difficulty understanding the essay.