The Meaning of Happiness

            What is happiness? A question that human race has been trying to figure out for centuries. From Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave" to hundreds of recent experiments on human behavior such as "The Marshmallow Test", researchers and philosophers have came up with lots of definition of happiness from different point of views. Everything happens for a reason, and one thing can trigger another thing to create a chain effect, so it is people's decision to make the connection of two specific events, and that's also how happiness forms. Happiness is caused by a series of related events combined. It could be either a side product of a process but it could also be the result of it. The description of happiness varies, but the production of happiness is always depend on a chain effect that happen in people's life on a daily bases.The Way Things Go by Peter Fischli and David Weiss and The Production Line of Happiness by Christopher Williams will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
             The Way Things Go (German: Der Lauf der Dinge) is a 1987 art film by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss. It documents a long causal chain assembled of everyday objects, resembling a Rube Goldberg machine (Fischli 1987). The film starts with a black garbage bag tight on a pole slowly spinning down and push the tire and triggers the whole event. This experiment was set in a factory of some sort. All the windows are covered by white sheets, all the pipes are exposed, and the interior lights are relatively dark. The tire runs down and hit the ladder and the ladder slides down and hits a desk that cause it to roll down and hit the air mattress. This chain effect continues for 30 minutes including the use of many chemical reactions and fireworks. The whole experiment is an epitome of people's life, it has its ups and downs, going uphill and going downhill, but people can always figure out a method to climb uphill, no matter how slowly the process is.