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There is much that can be learned and applied today from the book Fahrenheit 451. The theme of the book can be understood and be very useful in any era, and the lesson is definitely not out-dated. The book wrestles with issues of character, integrity, and many other moral values. Those things are good to learn no matter what stage in life you are, what generation you are in, where you live, and will still be beneficial for future generations to come.

I believe this novel is truly timeless. Even though the technology in the novel may become out-dated, the idea of it will never become out-dated. Our world is always growing and changing and becoming more advanced in technology, and that is what this book speaks to. In a world that is becoming more self-centered, and falling farther away from valuing biblical truths, this book helps put those values back in place by showing the reader the true danger of our culture moving towards shallow selfishness and away from living with integrity.

In the book, it shows the lives of many selfish, self-righteous, and careless people. It shows the extremes of those lifestyles and it helps the reader to identify the disgusting qualities of those lifestyles, therefore, helping the reader to realize that they do not want to live a lifestyle like that.

Also, the characters from the book Fahrenheit 451 are also timeless and a reader can still identify with the characters, even though the book was written many years ago. The characters are easy to identify with because their behaviors and feelings are those of human nature, and human nature is sinful and always has been, is, and will be, so in that aspect, the characters are very easy to identify with and they always will be.

The book Fahrenheit 451 is a book that is very easy to identify with because it deals with matters of human nature, and that will be something that can always pertain to people.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Print.

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This book addresses the inward battle that everyone faces against living a life of integrity versus living a life of laziness. In the book Fahrenheit 451, the culture of the people is extremely lazy. The people take the easy route by only living for themselves. They sit all day and watch television and they do not spend time with their families. They burn all of the things that they are too afraid to face, and they do not have to work hard for anything.

It is so easy to fall into the trap of living a shallow life and only worrying about yourself, and it seems that the author really understands that about human nature and he shows the daily inward battle that we face of integrity versus laziness.

I think the theme of this book is fighting for character. It takes a lot of effort to go the extra mile to do things to help others that you do not really want to help. It takes a lot of effort to truly be concerned of the well being of others over the well being of yourself. It also takes a lot of effort to fight for what you think is right and to live a life of character and live how you want to be.

The author really portrayed this theme by sharing thoughts, actions and daily life scenarios of Guy Montag, the main character of the book. Montag consistently had to make character choices throughout the entire book. He had to choose to listen to his instincts or to listen to his authorities. From what I have found, that is always a very tricky thing to do and it is a tough decision because you need to respect your authorities but not if they are being sinful. It is often a tough line to decipher when dealing with sinful authorities.

I believe that the author of Fahrenheit 451 had much experience on his topic of writing, and did a very good job portraying the theme.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Print.

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In my opinion, the conflict in the book Fahrenheit 451 is a conflict within the main character, Guy Montag. He lives in an extremely selfish world, and in the book he begins to find who he is withing that world. He always would live just like everybody else. Montag would do things that were pleasing to him, and would only think about himself. He would live a reckless lifestyle and not even think about the things that he was doing. He claimed that he was happy and that everything was good and how it was supposed to be. However, deep inside, Montag knew that he was not happy or satisfied with his life at all.

A girl, Clarisse Mclellen, moved into the house next to Montag. She was not like other girls. Clarisse took time to stop and think about things. She did not think about the things that most people thought about, like which television show to watch, but she thought about things that actually matter. Clarisse thought about things that were deep and actually took thought. She also asked questions. Most people around them did not ask questions, but Clarisse did. She questioned everything that happened. She did not live like the other girls, she cared about things that mattered.

Clarisse inspired thought in Montag. He had never witnessed a person who was like her, and it really got Montag questioning his motives, his morals, and his reasoning on everything that he did. The conflict in the book was Montag against himself. One part of him was comfortable with how he lived and it seemed like that was how he was supposed to live. The other part of him questioned the reasons that he did what he did and wanted to live for more and was sick of the culture, even though he was not quite sure at first what it was that he was sick of.

As the story progressed, Montag stopped living like he used to and started changing his mindset. He stepped out of his comfort zone and did things he never thought were possible. He did those things because that is what he believed to be true and right.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Print.

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In my opinion, I believe the author of Fahrenheit 451 must have very good values and moral standards. I think he wrote his book showing the negative things about our society, except he put them to the extreme. I think he did this to help the reader see how awful it is and identify that the things that are happening are bad, and then see that those things are happening in our society, but just in different ways and on a smaller scale.

I believe that Ray Bradbury's perspective in writing this book was that he was against all of the bad things that were happening in our society and wanted to portray that to others in a way that they could understand and realize the reality of. Since he did not want those things to happen, he had much knowledge of the things, and amped them up so that it would show the reality of the bad things and help the reader to realize that those things are bad in nature and can ruin families, friendships, societies, and countries.

Fahrenheit 451 confronts how people deal with issues such as family, character, integrity, morals, time management, electronics, fun, leisure, pleasure, laziness, etc. In the book, it shows people who do not manage their time well, instead they do whatever they please and do not spend time doing important things. The book also tells of people who have no character or moral standards and do not value family or helping others. This book shows many people who simply live for themselves.

I think Ray Bradbury's focus on the book was to show what living for yourself can do to the society as a whole, and to show the damage that can happen when you try to run from your responsibilities and consequences. He portrays those things by showing the behavior of the people in the society that he writes about. They do not solve any of their problems, instead the burn them. And most of the people in the city live as sluggards and live a life that only touches the surface and does not go deep at all.

I think another thing he wanted us to realize that being fake and only talking about things on the surface and never going deep with people and having hard conversations or being vulnerable can lead to a sad and desolate world of fake people

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Print.

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As Montag left the city and looked back at it, he thought,

"What did you give to the city, Montag?

Ashes.

What did the others give to each other?

Nothingness." (Bradbury 156)

In looking back at the city, Montag was looking back at his life. He realized that he gave nothing to the city. He gave nothing to the community or to the people or to anything for that matter. He tealized that he made no impact. Things would be almost exactly the same had he not even existed. He lived for himself and nobody else, he might as well not have even lived at all. There were no traces of him left back in the city, and nobody would remember him by the next day. And he was not the only one in that boat, the rest of the city lived for themselves as well.

Granger, one of the men in the group that Montag joined, told Montag;

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said...

The difference beween the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching. the lawn cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

...Grandfather's been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me." (Bradbury 156-157)

As easy as it is to live selfishly without thinking of others, and as often as people do that, it is not often that we realize that everyone wants to touch somebody. Nobody wants to die and to be forgotten. It is actually scary to think of dying and nobody remembering you or caring that you are dead. With that said, it is quite shocking to think of the vast majority of Americans that live a life concerning themselves and nobody else. Many of us do not realize how precious life is and tht in an instant, it can be lost. We do not know hte number of days we will live. A quote I have heard before is "dream like you will live forever, but live as if you will die tomorrow". That quote should be the motto of all of our lives, but it simply is not.

Many people would agree with all of these things that I am saying, but few would actually plan how to accomplish living that lifestyle and even fewer would actually try to do it. There is just something in us now days, that is missing. Maybe it is a lack of urgency or that we live by the assumption that we will live forever. Whatever the problem is, that thought process needs to be changed. I am not just saying that because I want to sound better than everyone else or because I think it is a cute idea, but I truly think it is in the best will of overyone.

So please, take into consideration that you should live like you are dying.

Bradbury, Ray. "Burning Bright." Fahrenheit 451. New York:

Simon & Schuster, 1993. 156-157. Print.

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The men that Montag met when he ran away from civilization seemed to just be ordinary men, but on the inside they were extraordinary. They each would read books and important passages or scripture, and memorize them. Montag only met a few of them, but they said that there are thousands more people just like them who live on the roads and look like bums but on the inside they are libraries. They are memorizing all of these things so that they may pass the knowledge down to their kids and someday, they hope the books will be written again.

As one of the men was explaining to Montag how they were able to live a lifestyle like that, he explained to Montag, "The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we mustn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise." (Bradbury. 153)

How those men lived, was extremely humble and they must have much character to be able to live where they everyday told themselves that they were not important and of no significance. However, those men were able to live that way because they were not living for themselves. They were living for a greater purpose, which was outside themselves. They were living for others instead of themselves. It would be so easy for them to live how everyone else lives. Everyone else has such an easy lifestyle, and lives so selfishly and lavishly. Yet these men do not live for themselves, and they live on the road and have to put in much effort to live, when the other citizens literally do nothing.

As a Christian, not living for myself is something that i strive for. For me, it is not always very easy to do and I fail at it quite often. But like the men that memorize the books, I live for a greater purpose outside myself. As a child of God, I am called to a higher standard. I need to be living for others and firstly focus on loving the Lord, then loving others, and serving the world. And then, I come after that.

Bradbury, Ray. "Burning Bright." Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 153. Print.

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During the first 145 pages of the book Fahrenheit 451, Montag had only seen fire used as a bad thing. Montag even once speaking of fire, said, "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean quick sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical." (Bradbury 115.)

Montag has always seen the negative connotations when it comes to fire. He sees that it destroys responsibilities and it destroys consequences. He says that if a problem gets too burdensome, then people literally burn their problems. In the society that Montag lives in, nobody wants their house to be burned, but if a neighbors house is burned, everyone stands in the streets and gawks at it. The burning of a house is made into a sort of neighborhood festivity, which helps keep the people afraid of fire and it puts extreme social pressure on people to never let their house get burned.

After Montag fled from the mechanical hound, and got away from the people that were chasing him, he was left in the forest. When he was there, he saw his world from a whole new perspective and was able to see things more clearly. After Montag was in the wilderness for some time, he finally found people. They were men gathered around a small fire. Their hands were out, and the fire was warming them not burning them. At this point, the book says that "He hadn't known fire could look this way. He had never thought in his life that it could give as well as take. (Bradbury 146.)

Montag had no idea that fire could be a good thing, not just a harmful thing. I find it so neat that he was able to see that. It was not until he saw things from a different perspective that he was able to realize that. I think sometimes, we get so wrapped up in situations in life that we often do not realize the good things in life. It is so easy to be focused on yourself and the bad things that are happening in life. But if we take a step back, away from our self-centered focus, and try to see the bigger picture and others in it, we may find that things are not as we had thought they were.

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In the book Fahrenheit 451, fire was used in a physical way. In thinking to himself, Montag finally realizes the danger of fire, and thinks, "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practicalt." (Bradbury 115.)

In the book, the firemen use fire to burn down houses and people that are disobeying. But montag realizes that what they are really doing is burning down their responsibilities and consequences, until there are no more. They hide behind fire and people view the firefighters as the 'heros', but in reality they are the wimps. Instead of facing their fears or facing their consequences, they just burn them. They don't take any chances or take any risks, they instead, destroy the possibility of risks.

The communtiy is decieved. They think the firefighters are the impressive ones that they idolize, when really they are the most fearful and immature people in the community. The firefighters hide from their problems and they use fire as their safety net, so that nothing bad can touch them.

I think all of us, in a way, are like the firefighters. Everyone has fears and everyone has responsibilities that they do not want to take care of and has consequences that they do not want to face. I believe that many people are like the firefighters and they avoid their responsibilities and consequences and instead try to get rid of them or put them on other people. Although most people now do not take care of their problems by burning them, they still avoid them and have their own way of getting rid of them.

I feel like so many people in my generation do not face their responsibilites or consequences. There are so many things these days to hide behind, and so many easy ways to weasel your way out of punishments, that I feel like so many people do not have strong enough character to live up to who they need to be.

What it all comes down to is character. If you have the character, you will not take the easy way out. Instead, you will take the road less traveled. I believe there is currently a huge character deficiency in high schools in America, today. I also believe that is a problem that can be solved. It is up to each individual whether they will choose character over laziness. I think a big problem is that many people do not look at the bigger picture and realize that having solid character is actually the better option than not, it just takes a certain level of maturity to fully grasp that.

Integrity is vital if you want to live a life that does not put responsibilities and consequences on the back burner. If we start growing up a generation with integrity, so many things in our world could change for the better.

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Mrs. Bowles, one of Mildred's friends, has had two children. She tells Mildred about them as if they are unimportant. She says, "I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it's not bad at all. You heave them into the 'parlor' and turn the switch. It's like washing clothes: stuff laundry in and slam the lid...they'd just as soon kick as kiss me. Thank God, I can kick back!" (Bradbury 96.)

The culture they live in does not value family in the slightest. I believe our culture is starting to become like that. In my opinion, if you take on the responsibility of having kids, you must be committed enough to raise them into polite young men and women. I feel like many parents these days, are not instilling good moral values into their children or even taking the time to help them build character. They seem to be so busy with their own lives, that they don't take the time to raise their kids in a wholesome way.

Many children these days do not have very healthy lifestyles. One problem is fast food. So many parents are so busy that they don't have time to prepare or get a healthy meal for their children. It is so much easier to run buy a fast food place or food that carb-loaded and sugar-filled snacks. I believe my generation has a pretty big problem when it comes to diet.

Also, many kids have grown up in environments where family is not valued. As a result, they don't value family and because of that, they are lacking in parts of life that are vital to their mental stability. many kids have grown up with divorced parents or without parents, and that can have a pretty major impact on their future.

I believe that people need to start taking parenting more seriously. They brought the children into this world, so they need to take the time to slow down and raise their children in an appropriate way.

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When Montag was thinking back about Clarisse, he remembered her specifically in a very good way, and he said to Millie, "But Clarisse's favorite subject wasn't herself. It was everyone else, and me. She was the first person in a good many years I've really liked. She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted." (Bradbury 72.)

From what I can tell, Clarisse was a very genuine person. And people that are genuine and have good character stand out above everyone else. From what I have found, people that are like Clarisse with good character don't even try to stand out, they are usually very humble. But people notice when someone has an outstanding and blameless character.

Presentation is everything. If you go to a job interview and when the interviewer talks, if you don't act like you're listening and have an attitude about you as if you don't care about anything, then you most likely won't get the job. People like when people care. Just the fact that Clarisse truly listened to Montag talk made a huge impression on him.

I think that if people just took more time for others, things could be so much better. It really is not very hard to do, it just takes time and practice. As you can see, Montag was so moved by the simple thing of Clarisse looking into his eyes as she listened, that it stuck with him for a long time after. It is the simple things like that that can make such a difference in the lives of others.

People don't often realize it, but they really can make a huge impact on the world. That sounds like a seemingly impossible task, but really it is quite attainable. You simply just start small. You start by thinking of others more than yourself. Then you start listenening more and pay more attention to the lives of others. You help people out whenever you can and take every opportunity to show love to others. From there, you just every day focus on your goals and keep loving people as the Lord has loved you. Then, before you know it you are helping many people and it is not even a big deal to you. You just keep helping as many people as possible and loving as many people as possible, and before you know it, you have impacted the world.

Clarisse McClellen was Montag's neighbor. She was a teenage girl, yet she was not like any of the other teenagers that Montag had ever met before. There was something quite curious about her. She was unlike the others in many ways.

Clarisse would ask questions. Most people were going through life just trying to be happy and were not worrying about anything else. Bot not Clarisse. She questioned things. She also sat and thought about things. That was unusual. At times she would not do anything but think. Most people are kept so busy that they don't have time to think, but Clarisse made time.

Later on in the book, the reader finds that Clarisse was killed by the firemen because she was not normal. Upon hearing this, Montag says to his wife, referring to Clarisse, "And men like Beatty are afraid of her. I can't understand it. Why should they be so afraid of someone like her?" (Bradbury. 67.)

That is a very interesting way, that Montag looked at the situation, and it raises a good question. Yes, the only reason the firemen would have killed her is because they viewed her as a threat. So why would they be so afraid of someone like her?

Actually, men like that have a very good reason to be afraid of a girl like her. She is a threat. She is not a threat in any obvious physical way, she actually is very innocent. It is her own innocence that makes her a threat. She is a threat because she thinks. She takes time to ponder things and realize that the way the world is, is not how it is supposed to be. She, because of her innocence, has an advantage in seeing things for how they really are. She is not absorbed into her television. She does not speed around in a car. She takes her time and is observant. Someone like that is the biggest threat of all. However, she was young, so many people would not listen to her, which is why she survived under the radar for so long. It was thanks to Clarisse that Montag started his whole revolution and revival of his life.

Bradbury, Ray. The Hearth and the Salamander. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1993. 67. Print.

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In the book Fahrenheit 451, a common theme has to do with the lifestyle that the people have. The people live so selfishly. All that they do is think about themselves and only worry about the things that affect them. An example of that is Millie. She Sits in a chair all day long and watches T.V. On the televisions, she watches "The Family". She talks about "The Family" as though they are really her family, however, they are just a T.V. show. I think that not only shows selfishness, but that shows the lack of a family life that the people then had. She did not even take interest in her husband, instead she watched her fake family on T.V. And to show how little the people valued family, Guy and Millie couldn't even remember where they met, and they had only been married for seven years.

Many of the youth in the book Fahrenheit 451 live even more selfishly than many of the adults. They cruise around in their cars, going hundreds of miles per hour, and not have a care in the world. They try to run over people on purpose and not think twice about it. Death in their culture is a very prevalent thing and is actually made into a game. On T.V. it shows people getting hunted down and killed. It is like they are animals, but they are people. Death in this society means nothing and killing people is a way of life.

On page sixty-six of Fahrenheit 451, Montag finally hits a breach in his lifestyle. That is when he realizes that there may be more to life than the way they have always lived it. Montag says to his wife, "Whether we like this or not. we're in it. I've never asked for much from you in all these years, but I ask it now, I plead for it. We've got to start somewhere here, figuring out why we're in such a mess, you and the medicine nights, and the car, and me and my work. We're heading right for the cliff, Millie. God, I don't want to go over. this isn't going to be easy. We haven't anything to go on, but maybe we can piece it out and figure it and help each other. I need you so much right now, I can't tell you. If you live me at all you'll put up with this, twenty four, forty-eight hours, that's all I ask, then it'll be over, I promise, I swear! And if there is something here, just one little thing out of a whole mess of things, maybe we an pass it on to someone else."

I feel like that quote from Montag explains a lot of his feelings about their lifestyle and is the begining of something new.

Bradbury, Ray. The Hearth and the Salamander. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1933. 66-67. Print.

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On page sixty-four of Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag says to his wife, Mildred, referring to a feeling he has, "I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and don't know what. I might even start reading books."

I think this is a very natural feeling that everyone feels sometime during their life. I believe, unlike most, that it is very important to feel this way. Along with this feeling comes asking questions and seeking answers. Along with this feeling comes rebellion of normalcy and it promotes taking action against the ways of the world and it helps people find who they truly are and what they truly believe in. I don't think people truly grow up, until they hit this point in their life. This comes at different times for everybody, but is definitely a beneficial thing.

Yes, it may seem like a bad thing because it physically makes you feel bad, and emotionally you feel reckless and spiritually you feel confused. But overall, it is such a good thing. It helps you become an individual. It is not good to conform to the ways of others. Individuality is key. What would this world be without individuals? Things would not work. So i firmly believe that it is OK to feel that way, and honestly is a good thing. Everyone needs to find who they really are.

If people did not feel this way at some point, they would not stop and think what they are living for. That can be a very dangerous thing. It is so easy to get wrapped up in living selfishly and living impulsively for the moment, without thinking of our ultimate goal in life and where we want to be, what we want to do, and who we want to be.

When Montag was feeling that way, he was in a very crucial time in his life. He had major decisions as to how he wanted to live, and no matter what he decided, those decisions would change his life.

Bradbury, Ray. The Hearth and the Salamander. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1993. 64. Print.

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As Captain Beatty was trying to explain to Montag why Clarisse McClellen was dead, he stated: "She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. You ask why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead."

I think our society discourages asking the question why. That may sound like a senseless thing for me to say, but I believe it to be true. I think, however, that sometimes our society applauds when people ask the question why. Those cases are like times when scientists ask the question why and they are able to make a new invention because of it. It is also acceptable for somebody to ask why and then solves a mystery or something. Those are both examples of when it is acceptable to ask why.

However, I still think that asking why in a certain way, is very socially unacceptable in our culture today. I think people see it as socially unacceptable when people ask why to deep life questions, and when they ask why to things that cannot be answered by humans. It becomes unacceptable to many, when people ask why in a way that stirs questions within us and makes us ponder deeply.

I believe that when Captain Beatty says, "you ask why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it", he is saying that you become unhappy because it stirs questions within you that cannot be correctly or incorrectly answered. Asking real questions that are deep can be a very gripping thing. It can lead to major soul searching. Asking why has lead to divides in things like friends, communities, churches, schools, and even families.

I believe, very much so, that our culture looks down upon asking why because many people believe that you don't need to ask life's tough questions; they believe you should just go through life trying to attain things like happiness and a good social status- two things that will never satisfy; when in fact, it is facing life's tough questions that actually gets you somewhere.

Bradbury, Ray. The Hearth and the Salamander. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 60. Print.

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On page 59 Captain Beatty says to Montag,

"Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these."


I believe our culture lives by this same aphorism, today. What people seek above all else is happiness. They say if they are happy, then they have lived a good life and that's what they are striving for. But what does happiness really accomplish? Does it help you in your life after you die? Certainly not. Does happiness ever actually get you where you want to go? Not that I have found to be true.


What absolute thing can happiness even help with? People justify that it makes you feel good and that it gains recognition of others. But what does it matter if others notice that you always seem to be "happy", if all you live for is some misconstrued, false sense of happiness that never satisfies. The metaphorical high that we seek from happiness will always let you down. Happiness has no bearings on reality, it is a lifeless thing which is completely inanimate. It will never satisfy as so many of us hope for. No matter how hard we try to grasp at happiness as our saving grace, it will never prevail. When we put all of our hope and faith into happiness, it will only leave us with an empty and unsatisfied feeling inside.


I believe that in all of our hearts, there is an intangible hole. There is something within us that is missing. We all try to fill that hole so that we can feel whole, as we should. Most people in our culture try and fill that void with happiness and pleasure. They fill it with things like money, and sex, and drugs, and friends. All of those things can seem so right and so satisfying, at first. But soon the alluring nature of these things fades and again, we are left unsatisfied and empty.

What is that hole, and what can possibly fill it so that we can be whole inside? I believe the hole that is in all of our hearts is a God-shaped hole. What I deem to be true is that every single person has a longing and desire for God in their heart. He is the only thing that can truly satisfy us and quench our thirst for the happiness we are seeking. He knows the desires of our hearts, and if we live as his children, he intends to fulfill those desires.


Bradbury, Ray. "The Hearth and the Salamander" Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 59. Print.