MY INNER HAPPY

What makes us happy? I'd definitely say that external things play a big part in today's happiness sadly.  In Fahrenheit 451, Beatty says it's external things like entertainment, sports, or food. I have learned to not agree with Beatty over the couple of years because what can't be bought with money brings true happiness. A memory from me is from freshmen year on my birthday when all my then friends surprised me with ballons and wished me a happy birthday. I am not saying the ballons made me happy, it was the thought that they remembered. You just feel so loved and that made me happy. A memory like that makes people honestly happy, it's just so pure. There might exist internal sources of happiness on which we can draw to sustain ourselves, I say might because there are people who can be happy without materialistic things and people who can't.