In Sara Ahmed’s piece, The Promise of Happiness, she focuses on what is happiness and how one obtains happiness. “Happiness involves a form of orientation: the very hope for happiness means we get directed in specific ways as happiness is assumed to follow some life choices and not others” (Ahmed 54). By this Ahmed means that one’s happiness shouldn’t be based off of others but based on how we live our own lives. In order to incorporate this happiness into people’s lives we need to stray away from gender norms and allow people to decide how they are going to live their lives and create their own
In Sara Ahmed’s piece, The Promise of Happiness, she focuses on what is happiness and how one obtains happiness. “Happiness involves a form of orientation: the very hope for happiness means we get directed in specific ways as happiness is assumed to follow some life choices and not others” (Ahmed 54). By this Ahmed means that one’s happiness shouldn’t be based off of others but based on how we live our own lives. In order to incorporate this happiness into people’s lives we need to stray away from gender norms and allow people to decide how they are going to live their lives and create their own