These portraits of beauty painted by the media keeps people at bay and makes them continue to want to try to become the unattainable. The lack of true happiness serves as a function to begin another day to try all over again to reach for an unattainable goal of ultimate bliss. .
People face anxieties and fears in their daily lives, the reason for which people quest for true happiness. Society, as a whole has some collective fears that plague their everyday lives, which include things such things as death, failure, being alone, and the unknown. If society had nothing to quench these global fears, there would not be any sane people in this world. When people are looking for true happiness around them, they are taking their minds off these fears and for the moment satisfying their psyche. This helps to keep society and everything else in balance. An example fine example is in the movie in Donny Darko. When Donny is with Gretchen, he is being temporarily satisfied and is not thinking about all the evil that consumes his mind when he is not with her. Society is very similar in the respect that, temporary comforts and satisfactions resolve the fears and anxieties that bother us daily. .
These fears that we experience every day result in a universal behavior of society. This behavior is directly connected to the fact that global fears exist and society is searching for satisfaction to temporarily dissolve those fears. Society is connected through these fears, and because they exist, it gives society one goal. In A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, the town's people satisfy their fears by going about their daily lives as if nothing was wrong. Eventually they found out what had happened, and the contentment of everyday life they had by masking their fears disappeared. This is a prime example of how society, as a whole, deals with their fears on a universal level. Another emotion that plays a large part in society's pursuit of true happiness is hope.
