For some time now, the West is tying to put its finger on one of the most illusive emotions of the human psyche—happiness. “Happiness” is hogging media space like never before, and just loving it. Hence, we get to read stories that tell us British women feel happiest at 28.
According to BBC reports, scientists claim that they have evolved a formula to measure happiness and can tell us exactly what will make us happy. The report also goes on to say that though Britain is much wealthier than what it used to be fifty years back, its inhabitants are much less happier. That wealth is not directly proportional to the happiness which one experiences, is a much established fact.
Several studies are now being conducted to fathom what exactly leads to a happy state of mind. Interestingly, most of these reveal that countries like Bhutan or Costa Rica–whose GDP is way below than the coveted figure–are the happiest ones. I wouldn’t risk being judgemental about this whole exercise of “happiness hunting”. Rather, it would be nice to hear from all of you your take on this.
The floor is yours.
