Average Happiness

Happiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. It's not just a sudden emotion. It is knowing that despite some problems in your life you're still happy.

Many people understand happiness very differently. Some of them think that happy is rich, successful and famous person. Other pay more attention to love, family and good relationship with other people. The rest may find happiness in small things.

According to research, accomplished by Ruuth Veenhoven, the more people feel happy, the longer they live. More than that, it is possible to separate out countries according to their states of happiness of their citizens. For example, the research shows us, that the happiest nations are the Switz, Danish and Icelanders. They all live more that 60 years. The unhappiest people live in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. They live 11,5-15,2 year on average. We can see a tendency, that people feel happier in more advanced countries.

It's not very easy to feel happy when there are a lot of problems around you. However, everything depends only on the attitude of your mind. As the one English idiom says, "every cloud has a silver line". It is possible to take every problem as a challenge and learn from it. Remember, life is just a bowl of cherries :)




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