Happy
The 2011 movie “Happy” explores many aspects of happiness, including length of life relative to happiness, and sources of happiness. The people of Okinawa rate as the happiest people in the world AND they also have the longest people on Earth. How do we obtain happiness? Through doing lots of things together, by doing things for others with selfishness, often doing things that are “fun”, and many similar things. Toward the end of the movie, a worker in a hospice in India founded by Mother Teresa says that helping someone understand that another human cares about them gives immense happiness. People “having it all” and living in the lap of luxury are generally much less happy than those in lesser circumstances surrounded by others. Certainly a movie worth the time to watch.
Do a “random act of kindness” to discover the benefits of happiness and that one gains the most happiness by doing things together and for others.
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa