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John Mills Argumentative Essay: We Should Not Search For Happiness

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People these days try looking for happiness but they do not know the more you try looking for it the harder it will be to find.Here it is when you have a special day coming up you can not wait for it.Well when the day comes up it did not go as planed. That is because we over think it if we were just to let the day come and just enjoy then it would be better.I agree with John Mills argument “we should not search for happiness but let happiness come to us.”
Americans every year they look for happiness.But they do not know that the more you look for it it is harder to find.Most Americans don’t focus on their own happiness.They help out others doing stuff if they see someone in the street and their cold they give them a shirt.Also if they

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