Happiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. It can mean different things to different people.
The sociologist Ruut Veenhoven has made a study about happiness in 95 nations. According to his studies happiness doesn’t correlate with gender, age, education, income or other material things. The happiest people are in Iceland and Denmark. Also, independent of lack of food, water and good living conditions people from Africa or Australia are happy too. As we can see from World Database of Happiness people from rich countries aren’t very happy. Moreover, Lithuania is in the end of the list – 83. What are the reasons of such as situation? Maybe our countrymen are so unhappy because of volatile climate, unemployed, low salaries or something like that. But in my opinion some people just doesn’t understand that happiness brings trivial, daily details such as meetings with friends, their smiles, sunny days, the first spring flower…
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…” said Thoreau. It doesn’t matter how much money you have, how old are you, what is your gender or nation – everybody can and must be happy.
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