You can find happiness
everywhere you want,
you can choose the way
in which see the things
just don't be bilnd.
Be yourself
'cause, sometimes, try to be "normal"
is just a limit
for who you are.
Dodge the regrets
and seize the opportunities
Don't get bored by life
it's the worst thing you can do
because life is happiness
elisa pitton
Thefirstvideowas the mostsignificantand certainlyeasyaboutwhat it wantsto convey.I havemanythings forwhichI should begrateful,butI often find myself to be unconsciouslyselfish.These are thefeelings I'vefeltlooking atthis video:sadness, compassion,angerandunabletodoanything. Instead Cocacola'sadvertising has definitely anicegraphics, but itwasonlymade​​to sell.We knowthat manypeople areeasilyinfluencedbyadvertising….Happinessismade ​​up ofmanysmall andbigthings,soI can’t evenimaginewhat afactory of happiness could produce. Elisa pitton
Happiness is something beautiful.
Live,learn new things and do everything
with happiness,'cause life is too
precious to waste uselessly.
Smile,smile and smile,
when you are sad too,'cause if you
smile,everything goes in te right way.
I think the first video is the meaning of the true happiness. Have a family, a home, food, clothes and friends are the most important thing to be happy. Unfortunately the poor people don’t have all of it. We should be grateful everyday to have these fortunes. But in my opinion the problem is that today we see this video and we think how we are lucky but the following day we forget all of it and we become capricious again; this is horrible. We, unfortunately if there is not the newscast or the commercial which speak to all of these problem the poor child have, we don’t help they : and we said we are unhappy e unlucky?! Crazy. The second and the third video are completely the opposite of the first. There are a light version of the happiness; in this two videos we see how we can be happy with do simple thing; for example the commercial of coca cola: I like this version of happiness, which don’t think, how the first video, at the problem in the world. I like, if I have a factory, my employees are so happy…I liked to work with the music and dance together with a smile but unfortunately this is only a dream, this is only a commercial. The third video is very funny; I hope this video be seen by the unlucky people. I think in the moment they see the video they forget all of their problem and they smile, even if only a few seconds. We mustn’t say we are unhappy if we have the fortunes I have said at first. So I’m happy!!!
Riccardo Sartori
This is my poem
the videos that I have just seen are all strong, but for me, the strongest is the first one. It makes me reflect that we don't have to take for granted nothing. for us is obious to have a roof on our head, but fo many peolpe ( unfortunately) is a strange thng the opposite. then we waste food and there are people that aren't be able to eat, because there insn't enough food. we are always dissatisfied as we would have more and more andwe don't know what we have…
About the second video I think that it was made to sell more coca -cola and I think that a drink can't feel you happy, I don'tlike coca -cola, but I think that a chat with frieds is better!!!!!
I have found the last video very amusing and maybe helpful for sad peope, but I think that we needen't read a book to be happy. Happiness is an untouchable feeling and you are like this or not. when we are sad we have to find the happiness inside ourselves and not in a book.
lucrezia busato
Thevideo"TheMeaningofHappiness"is certainlyadeepandtouchingvideo, but i think that shouldnt' be a video that make us think about these things. We should open our eyes and our minds. But this is difficult, we tend to think of ourselves, our point of view is set in our town, or country or perhaps the mainland. This video helps us to remember the fact that there are people less happy than us, and they have no choice, and also reminds us to live every day with a smile for that we have. Maybe it seems the usual sentence "smile for what you have" but it is not at all a foregone conclusion. Do we really smile every day for what we have? I don't think so. Watching this video I felt ashamed for not remembering that very often there are people who are unhappy and suffer, and I felt helpless because I couldn't do anything. Happiness is a choice because you have to choose to be happy, you must want it strongly.
"If you drink Coke you will be happy"
I would create a type of happiness which could be shaped, that will work for every single person on this planet and for everybody at the same time.
The first video is very interesting because it makes you think about what we have got that is much more important than what we haven’t got.But it isn’t so for all people .So we should wake up in the morning and say thank you for having a family,friends,peace,a roof,a quiet place to relax,…
If I was the boss of a factory that manufactures happiness first I wish my workers were happy.Then I wish we were like a large family where I am their ‘mother’ and they are my sons,so they can mistake but then I can caress their heads smiling.
I like even the third video.It was very persuasive.It is able to convince you that you can see even if you are blind!
Silvia piol
The first video is important to understand the meaning of happiness. In it you can see ill-fed children and unhappiness and poverty inside their eyes can help you to comprise that we are all spoilt, moaning and that they have nothing. Money, work, success aren’t happiness but health, family, friend and food are the true happiness!!
Generally when the people see this strong video they close it because they think it is boring or that poverty and heath in the world aren’t their problems.
And other point is to allure people to promote the company that help poor countries with school, hospital and others services.
The video of coco-cola is created to attract the people to think that the commercial products are essential because we are all in a world market. But you can also see this video like a small thing that makes everyone happiness.
Happiness is…
…the returned smile by someone who loves you
…your dream which at last comes true
…when the sun overcomes the rain and the good prevails over the evil
…when you relize how wonderful is the life, how important is a smile!
…to wake up at dawn and admire for the first time the fascinating beauty of the sun which rises little by little, without making any noise
…when, looking at an old photo again, iI think that when I was 3 nothing for me had a sense, I did everything without the consciousness of what I was doing… it was all easy… after all, I was only a timid baby who obeyed mum and dad, who played with dolls, who always smiled.
But now I relize it is all so different…so easy…so happy
The first video includes the real essence of happiness. Family. Friends. Peace. A House.
Sometimes we aren't satisfied with little as this peolple is. We think we need more & more…
This is not ONLY our blame.
What I want to say is that, we live in a society that persuade and try to convince the people to do something or BUY something.
These commercials are the proof of what I've said before.
It's obvious that an adult don't find HAPPINESS in a tin of Coke but what these commercials want to do, is to hit the mind of children who enjoy themselves watching the commercial and they think that Coke is the real formula of happiness. I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THESE COMMERCIALS ARE AMAZING BUT THEY CLOUD THE MIND OF THE PEOPLE!
*sincerly Mrs Ziraldo..I'm not a child BUT I love these Commercials! They're so FUNNY & BRILLIANT at the same time!
(Coca cola spot – the meaning of happiness) I think these are only spots that make you think that if you buy and drink coca-cola then you're happy…But is not like this because You can't buy things to be happy, YOU CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS…happiness is in the life, it is in living you're life with people who love you, it is in the healthness, it is when you help people, it is when you do the things you like with the right person… I think people should live their life like they couldn't live it once more… This is your only chance to be happy… I think I could never create a factory that manufacture happiness because we all don't have the same thought of happiness:If for me happiness is in love or in dancing then maybe other people don't agree with me so…Everyone has in his head his own idea of happiness factory!!! If you watch, then, the first video you can understand that there are people who are worse than us because they are not healty or they live in poor countries…But I think that you could be unhappy even if you have all the things you want…Because like I've just write before happiness isn't in the things you but it is in the support of your family, love, friends….This video is so so sad because it's sad to see people who are like this…and then we complain of our life….
It is the smell of coffee in the morning
when you wake up,is good morning with a loud voice said,
is the melody of a sweet song
you cry in front of a sunset,
is the smile of a child,
is getting up early to watch the sunrise,
is tender gaze
of two lovers embracing.
Just a little to be happy
the little things that count in life,
we do not want to climb mountains,
ocean to cross
BUT
small and precious treasures
emotions
stolen kisses
delicate feelings
unexpected messages
long endless moments
beating hearts of neighbors
enchanted silence
crumbs of love
Deep breaths and unmistakable
little happy moments
that free thoughts
in a serial magic
image of love
It is the smell of coffee in the morning
when you wake up,is good morning with a loud voice said,
is the melody of a sweet song
you cry in front of a sunset,
is the smile of a child,
is getting up early to watch the sunrise,
is tender gaze
of two lovers embracing.
Just a little to be happy
the little things that count in life,
we do not want to climb mountains,
ocean to cross
BUT
small and precious treasures
emotions
stolen kisses
delicate feelings
unexpected messages
long endless moments
beating hearts of neighbors
enchanted silence
crumbs of love
Deep breaths and unmistakable
little happy moments
that free thoughts
in a serial magic
image of love
1) It's simple to think at what we don't have, because what we need is what we already have.
That's the reason why, in my opinion, we don't think of what surrounds us, because we take it all for grounted!
A home, a family, friends, money, love…everything is there, in front of us, every day. But what could happen if suddently everything vanishes?
So the next time I am unhappy, I'll ask myself whether it is real sadness.
I think people who say that happiness is a choice mean that they envisage life in a totally different way.
They don't look at the negative side but focus their attention to the bright side.
They are more positive even when things are difficult.
2) the Coca Cola video commercial it was obviously created to sell the product. But I agree with one point: if you want to do something because it makes you happy, than do it! If I had a happinessfactory it would make all wishes come true. Because, as the most of us pointed out in their poems, happiness has different meanings.
This video stirred in me the feeling of happiness, while I was looking at the photos that represented my life, my reality. Watching the video I realized that I am really a lucky girl and till that moment I haven’t had the consciousness of the poverty and the bad lucky of millions of people. I never think about it, but know I should do it. I felt lash when I watched all those thin, sad, poor, alone, hungry children, because they don’t merit to live in those conditions…what have they done to deserve this? Then I felt (me) a little bit spoiled because, as the video said, even if I have everything and I always get all I want, I am unhappy however and I never consider myself lucky. During the video I had the creeps, maybe because look at the reality hurts.
Happiness for some is a choice because not all of us are able to find happiness, joy in what the have or in what they get from life. A person can choose either to face own life with a big smile or to turn one’s back on the world with a huge unhappiness inside himself.
I think that the cartoon of Coca Cola is very funny but it plays with the very meaning of happiness. I think it is a little bit shallow tell that happiness is a synonym of a drink. but after all this commercial was created to sell the product.
If I could create a factory of happiness I would produce millions of clowns and then bring them in all States and Countries of the world and make laugh all the people. Then I would create the “Sing of Happiness” and I would teach it everyone and this sing would be magic because it would have the power of conquer all sort of evil and wickedness, but especially unhappiness. I know it is impossible, but imagine costs nothing.
Happiness is the innocent and spontaneous smile of a child, a delicate flower just bloomed, the sound of the waves on the beach, a sincere hug of friendship, a baby who sleeps, the kiss of true love, a soft caress on the chick, the light spring breeze, the sky at sunset, the treasure most difficult to see and easiest to discover…
The first video (“The Meaning of happiness”) is really touching and moving: when I watched it my heart wringed. I don’t know how I felt, I can’t describe it. It was like a fight in my sleeping and confused mind . One side was absolutely sad, upset and angry with people, the society and the all world. The other side was instead calm and…happy? A smile “lit up” my face; it seemed a soft wind cuddled me and I could feel the warm of a hug. Suddenly everything became fine/good/nice and finally the words family, home, friends, etc. made a sense… Happiness: what is it? A slip f paper? A precious jewel which few people can have? No, it isn’t; it isn’t an “adults only” or “riches only” thing. Its definition is contained in one word: “choice”. Everybody can have happiness, they or me or you…but only if we want. We can be happy or unhappy. What’s the secret? Do we need a special ingredient to make our delicious “happiness cake”?Do we need a treasure map to find it? It’s easier than what we think. We only have to look on the bright side of things and when it becomes difficult…pretend to be painters! In the picture we try to depict our feelings: everything (colours, subjects, lines…) will hide a meaning. The most important things are hidden in the details seemingly most insignificant. Well…do we want to discover them or not? We can or can’t see them. This is our choice! The Coca Cola spot is very funny and seems a bit stupid, but it hides the “essence” of happiness. The simple bottle of Coke represents things most granted/banal in our life and its factory is what we never see beneath the face/appearance/surface/etc. The spot prompts and encourages us to discover “the abstract in the concrete”, to free our imagination in reality. In this way everything becomes better, more special and precious. If we pull off the top of things, we can savour happiness manufactured by their factories. My happiness factory consists of four “departments”: a flowery meadow; a father and his child who walk hand in hand; coloured balloons in the air and a blue sky…
We don't relize what's happiness because we want have always what we haven't or something that have the other people and we not!!
2)happiness can be a choice, you can decide how deal with your life but when happiness comes to the door you can't put her away, it would be an insult to who can't find happiness, however you wouldn't have courage!
3) I don't belive that is a product that make happiness or change the body, have money, have always good marks at school or something like that.
I think that happiness is return at home and see your family, can be themselves with your friends and when you become old look at the past and think:"I was really lucky". A factury can just make this thing for make someone happy.
1)In the first video you can see we do not know how to appreciate what we have. I consider myself lucky because in other parts of the world there are people who do not know what live really means : we have everything, they do not have enough food to survive, they must fight every day, they do not have families and they do not have a house. So, we must understand that we are really lucky!
2)It is true, many people think that happiness is a choice. I think that to be happy we have to appreciate what you have, not necessarily we need to have more. Not appreciating what you have, there isn't enjoyment, and then you can not even try to be happy.
3)For me the video of the Coca-Cola is just a way to market the drink; unfortunately we are always "bombarded" by these images that confuse our minds and make us believe that happiness is created by material goods, but it is not true. If a could create a factory that could manufacture happiness, it would be like a factory of what people need (for example peace!)
I think the first video is very deep and meaningful, because it is important to remember that often we only look at the negative events of our life and we don’t consider the positive things that happen to us every day! However the video shows photos that needn’t to be explained, because they stir immediately every person who has an heart! In my opinion to see children, taken away from their families, and forced to take up arms to kill other people is terrible. At the same way to see kids who haven’t got water to get washed and even to drink or who die of hunger is horrible too.
When you see a video like that you immediately understand what is the value of living in a comfortable and warm house, of having always something to eat and of being surrounding by people who love and support you in good and bad situations! The movie has stirred in me a lot of strong emotions due to people’s conditions seen there: sadness, impotence, because a person can’t change these things by him/herself , but also “happiness”, because I have understood the importance of simple and essential things of a normal life. By this video they mean that often the happiness isn’t a choice, it is dictated by such things as : the country where you live, the fact that there are wars or not and finally the services that your country offer you.
I think that this advertisement is false because it makes you think that coca-cola is healthy and even is the key of happiness! But obviously there are other things that make a person happy, for example love, health, friendship…
If I could create a factory that could manufacture happiness, I think that the first thing to do is to give to my employees a right salary, to support their families. Moreover I would establish fair workshift finishing on an accetable time, so people would have more time to spend with their families and they would work better! Of course I would increase the holidaytime!
I think the firstvideoisvery directandmakespeople to thinkinmany ways for example family and friends. For us they are normal to have people who love us but we do notrealizethatinotherplaces inthe worldthis isaprivilegethatnoteveryone has. There are wars,parents who see their children die, children who are made soldiers,died for lack of foodandwateretc.. Inmyeveryday lifeI do not thinkthesethingsbecauseI think itcouldhappen tome but I know I'm wrong. When I hearthese stories I remain speechless. Now inWestern societyas food,water,money are being wastedandthrown while in other places could save a life. When I watched thisvideoI getvery angrywhenI seechildrenunderweightbut I'm happywhenI seeall thepeopletogetherwithoutracial discrimination.
The Coca Cola video commercial it was created to sell the product but I think thatwill be ashallow thing but happiness is subjective,and why not a drink??:)Happiness can be everything. I do not know what tomake, butcertainlysomething that can helppeople who need.
Ruan Monica
You can find happiness
everywhere you want,
you can choose the way
in which see the things
just don't be bilnd.
Be yourself
'cause, sometimes, try to be "normal"
is just a limit
for who you are.
Dodge the regrets
and seize the opportunities
Don't get bored by life
it's the worst thing you can do
because life is happiness
elisa pitton
The first video was the most significant and certainly easy about what it wants to convey. I have many things for which I should be grateful, but I often find myself to be unconsciously selfish. These are the feelings I've felt looking at this video: sadness, compassion, anger and unable to do anything.
Instead Coca cola's advertising has definitely a nice graphics, but it was only made ​​to sell. We know that many people are easily influenced by advertising … . Happiness is made ​​up of many small and big things, so I can’t even imagine what a factory of happiness could produce.
Elisa pitton
Happiness is something beautiful.
Live,learn new things and do everything
with happiness,'cause life is too
precious to waste uselessly.
Smile,smile and smile,
when you are sad too,'cause if you
smile,everything goes in te right way.
Antonela Gjoka
I think the first video is the meaning of the true happiness. Have a family, a home, food, clothes and friends are the most important thing to be happy. Unfortunately the poor people don’t have all of it. We should be grateful everyday to have these fortunes. But in my opinion the problem is that today we see this video and we think how we are lucky but the following day we forget all of it and we become capricious again; this is horrible. We, unfortunately if there is not the newscast or the commercial which speak to all of these problem the poor child have, we don’t help they : and we said we are unhappy e unlucky?! Crazy.
The second and the third video are completely the opposite of the first. There are a light version of the happiness; in this two videos we see how we can be happy with do simple thing; for example the commercial of coca cola: I like this version of happiness, which don’t think, how the first video, at the problem in the world. I like, if I have a factory, my employees are so happy…I liked to work with the music and dance together with a smile but unfortunately this is only a dream, this is only a commercial. The third video is very funny; I hope this video be seen by the unlucky people. I think in the moment they see the video they forget all of their problem and they smile, even if only a few seconds. We mustn’t say we are unhappy if we have the fortunes I have said at first. So I’m happy!!!
Riccardo Sartori
This is my poem
the videos that I have just seen are all strong, but for me, the strongest is the first one. It makes me reflect that we don't have to take for granted nothing. for us is obious to have a roof on our head, but fo many peolpe ( unfortunately) is a strange thng the opposite. then we waste food and there are people that aren't be able to eat, because there insn't enough food. we are always dissatisfied as we would have more and more andwe don't know what we have…
About the second video I think that it was made to sell more coca -cola and I think that a drink can't feel you happy, I don'tlike coca -cola, but I think that a chat with frieds is better!!!!!
I have found the last video very amusing and maybe helpful for sad peope, but I think that we needen't read a book to be happy. Happiness is an untouchable feeling and you are like this or not. when we are sad we have to find the happiness inside ourselves and not in a book.
lucrezia busato
The video "The Meaning of Happiness"is certainly a deep and touching video, but i think that shouldnt' be a video that make us think about these things. We should open our eyes and our minds. But this is difficult, we tend to think of ourselves, our point of view is set in our town, or country or perhaps the mainland. This video helps us to remember the fact that there are people less happy than us, and they have no choice, and also reminds us to live every day with a smile for that we have. Maybe it seems the usual sentence "smile for what you have" but it is not at all a foregone conclusion. Do we really smile every day for what we have? I don't think so. Watching this video I felt ashamed for not remembering that very often there are people who are unhappy and suffer, and I felt helpless because I couldn't do anything. Happiness is a choice because you have to choose to be happy, you must want it strongly.
"If you drink Coke you will be happy"
I would create a type of happiness which could be shaped, that will work for every single person on this planet and for everybody at the same time.
*the last poem was mine.
Elena Ghersetti
The first video is very interesting because it makes you think about what we have got that is much more important than what we haven’t got.But it isn’t so for all people .So we should wake up in the morning and say thank you for having a family,friends,peace,a roof,a quiet place to relax,…
If I was the boss of a factory that manufactures happiness first I wish my workers were happy.Then I wish we were like a large family where I am their ‘mother’ and they are my sons,so they can mistake but then I can caress their heads smiling.
I like even the third video.It was very persuasive.It is able to convince you that you can see even if you are blind!
Silvia piol
The first video is important to understand the meaning of happiness. In it you can see ill-fed children and unhappiness and poverty inside their eyes can help you to comprise that we are all spoilt, moaning and that they have nothing. Money, work, success aren’t happiness but health, family, friend and food are the true happiness!!
Generally when the people see this strong video they close it because they think it is boring or that poverty and heath in the world aren’t their problems.
And other point is to allure people to promote the company that help poor countries with school, hospital and others services.
The video of coco-cola is created to attract the people to think that the commercial products are essential because we are all in a world market. But you can also see this video like a small thing that makes everyone happiness.
Giada Blasut
Happiness is…
…the returned smile by someone who loves you
…your dream which at last comes true
…when the sun overcomes the rain and the good prevails over the evil
…when you relize how wonderful is the life, how important is a smile!
…to wake up at dawn and admire for the first time the fascinating beauty of the sun which rises little by little, without making any noise
…when, looking at an old photo again, iI think that when I was 3 nothing for me had a sense, I did everything without the consciousness of what I was doing… it was all easy… after all, I was only a timid baby who obeyed mum and dad, who played with dolls, who always smiled.
But now I relize it is all so different…so easy…so happy
Giulia Girardi
The first video includes the real essence of happiness. Family. Friends. Peace. A House.
Sometimes we aren't satisfied with little as this peolple is. We think we need more & more…
This is not ONLY our blame.
What I want to say is that, we live in a society that persuade and try to convince the people to do something or BUY something.
These commercials are the proof of what I've said before.
It's obvious that an adult don't find HAPPINESS in a tin of Coke but what these commercials want to do, is to hit the mind of children who enjoy themselves watching the commercial and they think that Coke is the real formula of happiness. I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THESE COMMERCIALS ARE AMAZING BUT THEY CLOUD THE MIND OF THE PEOPLE!
*sincerly Mrs Ziraldo..
I'm not a child BUT I love these Commercials! They're so FUNNY & BRILLIANT at the same time! 
Arianna Fabbro
(Coca cola spot – the meaning of happiness) I think these are only spots that make you think that if you buy and drink coca-cola then you're happy…But is not like this because You can't buy things to be happy, YOU CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS…happiness is in the life, it is in living you're life with people who love you, it is in the healthness, it is when you help people, it is when you do the things you like with the right person… I think people should live their life like they couldn't live it once more… This is your only chance to be happy… I think I could never create a factory that manufacture happiness because we all don't have the same thought of happiness:If for me happiness is in love or in dancing then maybe other people don't agree with me so…Everyone has in his head his own idea of happiness factory!!!
If you watch, then, the first video you can understand that there are people who are worse than us because they are not healty or they live in poor countries…But I think that you could be unhappy even if you have all the things you want…Because like I've just write before happiness isn't in the things you but it is in the support of your family, love, friends….This video is so so sad because it's sad to see people who are like this…and then we complain of our life….
(coca cola spots-the meaning of happiness)..etc…this is by SARA GRANDE…sorry I just forgot to write my name XD
It is the smell of coffee in the morning
when you wake up,is good morning with a loud voice said,
is the melody of a sweet song
you cry in front of a sunset,
is the smile of a child,
is getting up early to watch the sunrise,
is tender gaze
of two lovers embracing.
Just a little to be happy
the little things that count in life,
we do not want to climb mountains,
ocean to cross
BUT
small and precious treasures
emotions
stolen kisses
delicate feelings
unexpected messages
long endless moments
beating hearts of neighbors
enchanted silence
crumbs of love
Deep breaths and unmistakable
little happy moments
that free thoughts
in a serial magic
image of love
It is the smell of coffee in the morning
when you wake up,is good morning with a loud voice said,
is the melody of a sweet song
you cry in front of a sunset,
is the smile of a child,
is getting up early to watch the sunrise,
is tender gaze
of two lovers embracing.
Just a little to be happy
the little things that count in life,
we do not want to climb mountains,
ocean to cross
BUT
small and precious treasures
emotions
stolen kisses
delicate feelings
unexpected messages
long endless moments
beating hearts of neighbors
enchanted silence
crumbs of love
Deep breaths and unmistakable
little happy moments
that free thoughts
in a serial magic
image of love
the last poem was written by Ruan Monica
1) It's simple to think at what we don't have, because what we need is what we already have.
That's the reason why, in my opinion, we don't think of what surrounds us, because we take it all for grounted!
A home, a family, friends, money, love…everything is there, in front of us, every day. But what could happen if suddently everything vanishes?
So the next time I am unhappy, I'll ask myself whether it is real sadness.
I think people who say that happiness is a choice mean that they envisage life in a totally different way.
They don't look at the negative side but focus their attention to the bright side.
They are more positive even when things are difficult.
2) the Coca Cola video commercial it was obviously created to sell the product. But I agree with one point: if you want to do something because it makes you happy, than do it! If I had a happinessfactory it would make all wishes come true. Because, as the most of us pointed out in their poems, happiness has different meanings.
Rossana Solari
What is happiness?
Happiness is a kind of satisfaction
and gratification.
Happiness is to be cheerful
and delightful.
Bliss is associated with a supportive family
and true friendship.
Friends make you joyous;
friends make you smile;
friends make your glee.
But if you know happiness,
the true happiness,
you have to know what grief is.
Lara De Piero 2^H
This video stirred in me the feeling of happiness, while I was looking at the photos that represented my life, my reality. Watching the video I realized that I am really a lucky girl and till that moment I haven’t had the consciousness of the poverty and the bad lucky of millions of people. I never think about it, but know I should do it. I felt lash when I watched all those thin, sad, poor, alone, hungry children, because they don’t merit to live in those conditions…what have they done to deserve this? Then I felt (me) a little bit spoiled because, as the video said, even if I have everything and I always get all I want, I am unhappy however and I never consider myself lucky. During the video I had the creeps, maybe because look at the reality hurts.
Happiness for some is a choice because not all of us are able to find happiness, joy in what the have or in what they get from life. A person can choose either to face own life with a big smile or to turn one’s back on the world with a huge unhappiness inside himself.
I think that the cartoon of Coca Cola is very funny but it plays with the very meaning of happiness. I think it is a little bit shallow tell that happiness is a synonym of a drink. but after all this commercial was created to sell the product.
If I could create a factory of happiness I would produce millions of clowns and then bring them in all States and Countries of the world and make laugh all the people. Then I would create the “Sing of Happiness” and I would teach it everyone and this sing would be magic because it would have the power of conquer all sort of evil and wickedness, but especially unhappiness. I know it is impossible, but imagine costs nothing.
Giulia Girardi
Happiness for me
Happiness is to see a child that laughs and plays.
Happiness is to have the chance to study for a long time, if you would that sincerly, and not necessarily must to find immediatly a job.
Happiness is to have a good family that loves and helps you in the hour of need.
Happiness is to have lots of friends, or also a small but good bunch, that talks with you and helps you to face the difficulty situationes.
Happiness is to send others positive messagese and to rescue the beautiful things of the life.
Happiness is to find enjoyment, joyous, gratification in the small, daily things.
But the most happiness for me is to help others and to be returned!
Lisa Coletto
Annagiulia Nadin cl.2H
HAPPINESS
Happiness is
the innocent and spontaneous smile of a child,
a delicate flower just bloomed,
the sound of the waves on the beach,
a sincere hug of friendship,
a baby who sleeps,
the kiss of true love,
a soft caress on the chick,
the light spring breeze,
the sky at sunset,
the treasure most difficult to see
and easiest to discover…
The first video (“The Meaning of happiness”) is really touching and moving: when I watched it my heart wringed. I don’t know how I felt, I can’t describe it. It was like a fight in my sleeping and confused mind . One side was absolutely sad, upset and angry with people, the society and the all world. The other side was instead calm and…happy? A smile “lit up” my face; it seemed a soft wind cuddled me and I could feel the warm of a hug. Suddenly everything became fine/good/nice and finally the words family, home, friends, etc. made a sense…
Happiness: what is it? A slip f paper? A precious jewel which few people can have? No, it isn’t; it isn’t an “adults only” or “riches only” thing. Its definition is contained in one word: “choice”. Everybody can have happiness, they or me or you…but only if we want. We can be happy or unhappy. What’s the secret? Do we need a special ingredient to make our delicious “happiness cake”?Do we need a treasure map to find it? It’s easier than what we think. We only have to look on the bright side of things and when it becomes difficult…pretend to be painters! In the picture we try to depict our feelings: everything (colours, subjects, lines…) will hide a meaning. The most important things are hidden in the details seemingly most insignificant. Well…do we want to discover them or not? We can or can’t see them. This is our choice!
The Coca Cola spot is very funny and seems a bit stupid, but it hides the “essence” of happiness. The simple bottle of Coke represents things most granted/banal in our life and its factory is what we never see beneath the face/appearance/surface/etc. The spot prompts and encourages us to discover “the abstract in the concrete”, to free our imagination in reality. In this way everything becomes better, more special and precious. If we pull off the top of things, we can savour happiness manufactured by their factories.
My happiness factory consists of four “departments”: a flowery meadow; a father and his child who walk hand in hand; coloured balloons in the air and a blue sky…
We don't relize what's happiness because we want have always what we haven't or something that have the other people and we not!!
2)happiness can be a choice, you can decide how deal with your life but when happiness comes to the door you can't put her away, it would be an insult to who can't find happiness, however you wouldn't have courage!
3) I don't belive that is a product that make happiness or change the body, have money, have always good marks at school or something like that.
I think that happiness is return at home and see your family, can be themselves with your friends and when you become old look at the past and think:"I was really lucky". A factury can just make this thing for make someone happy.
Pignar Marta
1)In the first video you can see we do not know how to appreciate what we have. I consider myself lucky because in other parts of the world there are people who do not know what live really means : we have everything, they do not have enough food to survive, they must fight every day, they do not have families and they do not have a house. So, we must understand that we are really lucky!
2)It is true, many people think that happiness is a choice. I think that to be happy we have to appreciate what you have, not necessarily we need to have more. Not appreciating what you have, there isn't enjoyment, and then you can not even try to be happy.
3)For me the video of the Coca-Cola is just a way to market the drink; unfortunately we are always "bombarded" by these images that confuse our minds and make us believe that happiness is created by material goods, but it is not true. If a could create a factory that could manufacture happiness, it would be like a factory of what people need (for example peace!)
Lara De Piero 2^H 🙂
I think the first video is very deep and meaningful, because it is important to remember that often we only look at the negative events of our life and we don’t consider the positive things that happen to us every day! However the video shows photos that needn’t to be explained, because they stir immediately every person who has an heart! In my opinion to see children, taken away from their families, and forced to take up arms to kill other people is terrible. At the same way to see kids who haven’t got water to get washed and even to drink or who die of hunger is horrible too.
When you see a video like that you immediately understand what is the value of living in a comfortable and warm house, of having always something to eat and of being surrounding by people who love and support you in good and bad situations! The movie has stirred in me a lot of strong emotions due to people’s conditions seen there: sadness, impotence, because a person can’t change these things by him/herself , but also “happiness”, because I have understood the importance of simple and essential things of a normal life. By this video they mean that often the happiness isn’t a choice, it is dictated by such things as : the country where you live, the fact that there are wars or not and finally the services that your country offer you.
I think that this advertisement is false because it makes you think that coca-cola is healthy and even is the key of happiness! But obviously there are other things that make a person happy, for example love, health, friendship…
If I could create a factory that could manufacture happiness, I think that the first thing to do is to give to my employees a right salary, to support their families. Moreover I would establish fair workshift finishing on an accetable time, so people would have more time to spend with their families and they would work better! Of course I would increase the holidaytime!
Lisa Coletto
I think the first video is very direct and makes people to think in many ways for example family and friends. For us they are normal to have people who love us but we do not realize that in other places in the world this is a privilege that not everyone has. There are wars,parents who see their children die, children who are made soldiers, died for lack of food and water etc.. In my everyday life I do not think these things because I think it could happen to me but I know I'm wrong. When I hear these stories I remain speechless. Now in Western society as food,water,money are being wasted and thrown while in other places could save a life. When I watched this video I get very angry when I see children underweight but I'm happy when I see all the people together without racial discrimination.
The Coca Cola video commercial it was created to sell the product but I think that will be a shallow thing but happiness is subjective,and why not a drink??:)Happiness can be everything. I do not know what to make, but certainly something that can help people who need.
Ruan Monica