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Happiness seems to add years to life, as well as life to years.
Given the choice between winning the lottery and being left permanently disabled by injury, everyone would take the money. Yet a year after either of these events, people apparently return to their previous levels of happiness.
Researchers believe that it's relative income, rather than absolute income, that matters to people. However well we're doing, there's always someone else doing better.
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those are the real bare truths either we dont know or do not care much about even knowing them..
happiness is relative income, so however well we re doing, thereis always someone else doing better.... so, better we dont compare with others!!!
and i really appreciate the way the editor has tried to correlate happiness with the development and economic status of the countries.... people of developed countries lead a far more luxurious and well off life but are they happier than those of the least developed countries? perhaps not!!! so, i agree its not the economic status that determines the happiness but something else... i think its the way how people react to and see the comforts they are having in their life that matters the most.... the well off people might find their cars uncomfortable while people in our villages consider a bullock cart ride a great pleasure...... so, thats how things are!! very very difficult to understand..
especially the abstract things!!! i just wonder when will the mystery of happiness be disclosed....