About the importance of joy - dont know how to write my bard essay

can someone help explain this promt

The Roman philosopher Seneca, writing in the first century, wrote a set of letters of advice to a young friend. In the 23rd letter he wrote, "Make this your business: learn how to feel joy...true joy, believe me, is a serious thing." Write a short response

Yeah it's hard to handle so I just decided not to apply =p

I think you can talk about something that brings joy in the end, and truly makes one happy. For example, you can write about an experience when the nature of happiness suddenly came to you through that experience. Maybe the sort of happiness different from other occasions when you feel pleasant, excited, or content?

Hope this makes some sense...

The letter the guy wrote seems to highlight the seriousness of true joy. SO you must take track and write about how serious you think joy is? Why joy is so important? What benefits does it brings to be joyful? What, in your opinion, is true joy? All this are tracks to start your essay. Always remember to support your argument with personal examples as it makes the essay more vivid and tells the university more about yourself. Remember TELL, but also SHOW what you are telling. Hope this helps.

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bard college supplement essay about the importance of joy

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prompt: The Roman philosopher Seneca, writing in the first century, wrote a set of letters of advice to a young friend. In the 23rd letter he wrote, "Make this your business: learn how to feel joy...true joy, believe me, is a serious thing." Write a short response to these thoughts, indicating if you wish, the extent to which you may have come to realize that Seneca was right.

A woman called oprah winfrey once said "joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace -a connection to what matters". Some days I wake up and I remember something and it just brings a smile to my face without me even knowing it and then I feel contented with my life and just that day I feel like nothing can stop me. I have come to know that joy springs from within us no one makes you joyous; you choose to be joyfull. Even sometimes when I feel like I have failed in something, a memory from the past just brings a smile to my face it might be the memory of me and my friends having fun or me listening to my favorite song and in that moment I feel that sense of well-being and peace and realise what really matters to me. Joy is our destiny it is not a thing that we can buy with our wealth or worldly thngs it is very deep within us and sometimes we dont even realise we are the only ones who can make ourselves feel real and true joy and that no human is the source to our joy but we ourselves. As we strain to grasp the things we desire the things we think will make us feel better like money, popularity, and fame we ignore the simple things that truly matters like joy, love, friendship, family the things we propably already had but never knew. You might think your happy and joyfull because you have all the money and fame but real and true joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile that makes you feel like you have achieved something worthwhile and great that no man has achieved in a life time. I remember when my dad and I travelled and we would go out to a resturant and we would sit and eat and he would tell me jokes that made me laugh on till my ribs hurt and I could not breath. In that moment I realised that it wasnt only because he was telling me jokes it was the sense of being with him in that moment and seeing his face and that important feeling of togetherness I felt that really made me joyfull because when I look back to that moment I still smile up till today. And sometimes when I feel sad or like its just me against the world I rememer that memory and feel so joyfull like I would bust out of happiness. Sometimes I wish we could all take a look in the mirror and ask ourselves who do you see is it the person you want to be or is there someone else you were ment to be the person you should have been but fell short of. Is someone making you feel as if you can not or you wont because you can. Believe that their is something out there for you. Believe that dreams come true everyday because they do and you can and will feel joy. Sometimes joy does not come from money or fame or power sometimes joy comes from friends and family and mostly from the quiet nobility of leading a good life and knowing what really matters. So take a look in that mirrior and remind yourself that the only true measure of your success is the amount of joy you feel and joy is not found from satisfaying others but from doing what makes you feel joy because you deserve to be joyous every single day of your life. Joy is a necessity of life, a very important thing in life that we all need to feel and believe like it is part of our way of life.

As we strain to grasp the things we desire, the things we think will make us feel better like money, popularity, and fame, we ignore the simple things that truly matters like joy, love, friendship, family, which are things we propably already had, but that we never really cared about (or something like that :P )

You must check fro grammar errors, and divide into sentences. You have way too much run-on sentences, but the grammar needs revising. I got to go now, so I did not have enough time to check your whole essay, maybe someone else can. By the way, if you can check my essay I'll be grateful. Thanks in advance.

I hope you are breaking down paragraphs. whithout them, it looks tedious.