Dec 20, 2012

Are YOU Happy?

Just read in today's newspaper a 'Gallup Poll' on the Happiest people in 148 countries.
The world's happiest people aren't in Qatar, the richest country by most measures.
They aren't in Japan, the nation with the highest life expectancy.
Or Canada, with its chart-topping percentage of college graduates.
Surprisingly it was NOT the wealthy and orderly city-state that ranks among the most developed in the world that was on the Happiest list. 
None of these made the top 10 'happiest' countries.
It was a tie between Panama & Paraguay.
In Paraguay, tied with Panama as the most-positive country while doing far worse than Panama by objective measures, a street vendor, Maria Solis said tough economic conditions were NO reason to despair.
"Life is short and there are no reasons to be sad because even if we were rich, there would still be problems," she said while selling her herbs used for making tea.
"We  have to LAUGH at ourselves...."

....Let's Laugh Now!......

 

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