Glowstick

I am an 18-year-old female college student. As of right now, I am a marketing major with a biology minor, and I do not know much about happiness.

I know what makes me happy and what is possible to make other people happy, but I do not know how to define happiness. 

But what I do know is glowsticks. 

"The typical glowstick contains an oxalate ester and dye solution within a plastic stick, and hydrogen peroxide within a small, fragile vial in the middle of the stick. When you bend the stick, the vial breaks open, and all the chemicals come together. The oxalate ester and hydrogen peroxide react, sometimes with the help of a catalyst, to form a peroxyacid ester and phenol. The peroxyacid ester decomposes to form more phenol and carbon dioxide, producing energy that excites all the molecules floating around this little party, which then release photons, making the stick glow."

or that's what MentalFloss credits glowsticks in doing (How Do Glowsticks Glow?, 1.)

Think about where will you be in a day, in a week, in a year?

Will, what you are doing right now matter? Will anything matter in the end? 

But still, we have a thirst to strive towards happiness. We are selfish creatures, we don't care about the needs of others, all we want is to make ourselves happy. 

Every day someone's life changes, but we are too concerned about ourselves to see the simple flaws and mannerisms that someone else is going through.

Even when we stop and think about these few individuals that are going through hardships, we still reflect on ourselves. What are our flaws, what are our mannerisms? How can an individual go through so much but still be happy?

Those who are fortunate don't realize what happiness truly is. Until you have been through hell and back I don't think anyone truly can.

In the end it's okay to be a glowstick, sometimes you have to break before you can shine.