The push and pull between happiness and meaning and which is more fulfilling can be debated back and forth but when it comes down to it there is cause and effect to each scenario. Superficial aspects tend to be associated with happiness without meaning, therefore superficial results in despair. Devotion and commitment are related to meaning and how ones life takes on a deeper role when happiness is gained through meaning. This is why commitment and devotion result in happiness.
Superficial aspect result in despair. Desperation is not a good way to live ones life. When someone yearns for something they can not receive or will not receive this is portrayed as desperation. As stated in previous papers the Real Housewives of Atlanta are a perfect example of showing women who yearn for unnecessary, materialistic items to try to gain happiness.Their superficial pursuit results in a race for who can have the most and who can gain it the quickest.The cause in this demonstration, to gain “happiness” through the newest and best objects money can buy. The effect is a life that is unfulfilling due to the constant disappointment that maybe the best of everything is unattainable.
Devotion and commitment are related to meaning in ones life. Dedication to someone or something can go a long way in ones life and bring prosperous results along with it. When a person is committed to something the strive makes the task worth something. It transforms from just a meaningless act to something that was worked at, achieved, and finally earned. When a person is devoted to a cause the meaning makes the happiness worth something much greater then objects or material items.
Works Cited
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/07/happiness-vs-meaning.html
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/do-you-want-a-meaningful-life-or-a-happy-one/
Grewal. “A Happy Life May Not Be a Meaningful Life.” Scientific American Global RSS. N.p., 2014. Web. 01 Mar. 2015.
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Counterintuitive Spring 2024 
Hey bglunk
You might want to argue to me about these papers that in all three short arguments you find yourself having to make more or less the same sort of claims. It might also seem that the fault is in the material. I believe, on the contrary, that you haven’t explored your hypothesis enough to find all the nuances in it that would help you make a more complex argument.
These women, for example, surely believe their lives to be full of meaning, don’t you think? They might think the other women are superficial, but they don’t see it in themselves. Am I right? How, then, can you repeatedly make the claim that devotion and commitment (which result in deep meaning and thence to happiness) are somehow the opposite of superficiality?
You make a similarly blunt claim about superficiality that paints you into another corner. You say:
How does this differ from a commitment to a meaningful social cause, for example? The person devoted to world peace or justice for the poor will surely never accomplish her goal. Is she as a result desperate? Or is she happy because her life is committed to the pursuit of meaningful change?
Whatever you think of those observations, I just don’t want you to believe that you’ve exhausted your topic by comparing to generalities. I hope that’s helpful.
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The Tragic Pitfall of Money
We spend our non-refundable time searching for something that makes us feel complete or satisfied. A large portion of us will resort to working our whole lives for money and materialistic belongings while the rest of us come to realize that true fulfillment in life cannot be bought with money, but rather with devotion and commitment.
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A good reference point might be Tyler Durden from Fight Club. Early in the book he talks about this exact topic, how “we buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like” and how “the things you own end up owning you”. Materialism and being possessive is a big theme in the book.
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Giving Meaning to Nothing
Nothing has meaning without commitment or devotion. The appreciation of objects is superficial; therefore, it results in despair. However, devotion and commitment relate to meaning on a deeper role when happiness is gained through meaning beyond material significance.
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