Tuesday, May 24th,
2016
Toronto, Canada
Happiness and
Ourselves
This is my last full
day in Canada, on a break-of-sorts, before I depart for America to reconvene
the US Walk. It does get exciting
knowing I'll be on the road again. It's
when I'm on that road, that I'm the happiest and when I get the best rest. Yes, I had to say that insomnia hit again -
now that I'm not in full regimen. I'm
sure if a survey is done, you will find a good amount of people are not happy
due to many reasons, one of them being economics- or lack of it. But many folks are unhappy with too much
wealth, too!
I did do some
research about happiness. It was
interesting to find some stats about happiness.
For instance, an article from a UK paper, 'The Huffington Post,'
maintained by author, Kathyrn Snowdon, found that religious people from all
different faiths are happier than those who have 'no religion.' Of all the faiths in the UK, Hindus are the
happiest, scoring well above the average and just under the demographic of
people who consider themselves to be 'in very good health' according to data
compiled by the Office for National Statistics.
Christians of all
denominations were the second happiest, followed by Sikhs and Buddhists.
In a TED Talk with
Matt Killingsworth, it was revealed that if you want to be happier then you
'stay in the moment.'
Gallup had
interviewed more than a million Americans since 2008, enough to map out
happiness. And no surprise; on a
state-wide level, Hawaii heads the top ten.
But this isn't about good weather, because Wyoming, North Dakota, Alaska,
and Colorado are next. No southern state
made the list.
Our guru, Srila
Prabhupada, never conducted a survey on the topic of happiness, but he had
proved that those who gave up bad habits and took to chanting became quite
satisfied.
"Chant and be
happy!" he used to say.
May the Source be
with you!
7 km
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