The World Happiness Report is a measure of
happiness published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions
Network.
In the Reports, leading experts in several
fields – economics, psychology, survey analysis, national statistics, and more
– describe how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to assess the
progress of nations. They use six key variables to explain happiness: actual
money in the bank, healthy life expectancy, having someone to count on, freedom
to make life choices, freedom from corruption, and generosity.
Well that counts out most African
countries. Europe seems the happiest place with 1st Denmark, 2nd Norway, then
Switzerland and Netherlands, leaving Australia 10th and the UK 22nd.
Psychology has defined happiness as
subjective well-being however some theorists disagree with this and instead
promote the idea of the meaningful life being as important or more important
than a happy one.
We must realise that most of the 3rd world
countries are just happy to have a good meal and warm nights sleep. That I
suppose is happiness enough.
Rossella has a thing hanging on the wall in the kitchen that says, "Wine a little, you'll feel better"...
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