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Happiness is an emotion that happens in a human being when he believes he has reached a desired goal. There are many ways to feel happiness, such as when you get a good score in a test, when you eat your favourite food, or when you have a good time with your friends. However, one question that people have been wondering for a long time is: where does happiness come from? And there are many different opinions about this. In this essay we are going to talk about two different points of view: people who believe that happiness depends only on us and people who believe that happiness is conditioned by genes.

On the one hand, we have people who think that happiness depends only on yourself. Besides, this is the most common way of thinking and has been thought for a long time. "To be happy means to realize ourselves, to reach the goals of a human being" said old thinkers like Aristotle. Furthermore, this theory makes considerable sense because if you do an action to try to find happiness, you will probably get it.

On the other hand, there is a more recent theory called the "happy gene". According to some experts our level of happiness throughout life is strongly influenced by the genes with which we were born. In addition, Edinburgh University has carried out numerous studies on this. This theory tells us that our genes can condition how we take things, and therefore that we have a higher or lower level of happiness in our life.

To put it in a nutshell, everyone has a different way of thinking and everyone can support a different theory. Nevertheless, no theory is 100% certain, so we can never trust one of them completely.In my opinion, genes may have something to do with our happiness, but I think we are mostly in control of our happiness ourselves.