NOTES: What we know about Happiness
Here are some of the facts I would like to share about happiness:
-The lack of money will make you unhappy but more money after a certain point will not make you happier. If you cannot be happy with a million dollars, maybe it is time to ask whether you can ever be happy — even with a hundred million dollars?
-Higher Education or Higher IQ will not make you happier. It does seem that much of the results of a higher education serves to make us unhappy. Is ignorance bliss? Maybe the more we know, the more we become convinced we cannot be happy unless we are successful. It may be that we are asking the wrong question. Why not instead think that we cannot be successful unless we are happy?
-Being young does not make you happier. It seems people from 65 to 74 are happier than people from 20 to 24, and also less prone to dark moods. Those people who have aged must have known that 90% of their life’s worries never did come true … and oh, many of them must have thought — if I only made an earlier decision to be happy…….. Well, it is never too late to be happy.
-Watching more TV makes you less happier. These do tend to be supported by numbers, but I am not sure which cause what. Maybe, happy people watch less TV.
-Married People are happier than Singles. I am inclined to conclude the same thing, maybe it is the other way around - happier people have more inclination to get married.
- Strong Religious faith definitely lifts the spirit. I think being able to sense a higher purpose than fulfilling our wants and needs gives us a stronger urge to move forward.
- Friends and Family. And a commitment to share and enjoy with them. Isn’t that what life is all about?
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