In your experience, how do people achieve genuine happiness in their lives? Do you think being happy is one of the most important goals of life? How does your opinion compare to how the speaker values happiness in life?
You have a lot of questions here that want your opinion. Happiness is a pretty subjective concept. My personal goal is to build a sense of peace and happiness despite the external factors in my life. If my house, for example, burned down, I might be disappointed, but the inner peace is not altered. I know, easier said than done but I'm trying to work toward it. I think the speaker's values of acceptance of the "now" as precious is a message today's world desperately needs. So many of us live in the past and the future while the now, the only time that matters, slips away.
