Outside reading #5

For my outside reading number five I read a short story in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul volume four. The short story is called "Happiness" by Sarah Provencal. Happiness is about Sarahs school assignment to write a paper on happiness. At first she didn't know how she was going to write a paper on happiness when she felt like she wasn't happy because she didn't have the best grades or the cutest clothes. She later realized that happiness doesn't come from material things like clothes and money but from the little things in life like a sunny day or your favorite dessert. There is a quote in the story that says " Happiness depends upon ourselves." I think this quote is very true because you can choose to be happy and accept things in life the way they are or you can choose to live life always wishing for more and wanting things to be different. I think the best way to find happiness is to accept what you have and make the best out of it!