January 13, 2008
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Happiness and The Blues
There’s a lot of junk on television right now, but there’s the occasional good stuff. I just watched 20/20, a report on ‘Happiness’, and I’m so ‘happy’ I did.
To sum it up . . .
50% genes
10% life circumstances
40% intention, attitude, outlook
These are the percentages that make up total happiness.
‘The Happiest Place on Earth’ is Denmark [contrary to popular belief that Disneyland is
].
This is pretty surprising because it is a country that is “cold, dreary, and unspectacular.” And it also has “one of the highest taxes – up to 63% of one’s income.”
Some characteristics that make up Denmark:
- People don’t choose careers based on income or status. A banker, a garbage man, and an artist all get paid similar salaries.
- They can all afford cars, but most choose bikes.
- Vegetables are bought by the honor system.
- Mothers leave babies unattended outside cafes.
Basically, it’s a society that trusts and doesn’t judge by status.
I think we could learn a lot from these Danes.
So remember, intention, attitude, outlook.
On another note, today is a big day for our beloved Seahawks. They’re the underdogs, but I have faith that they can win. I’ll be proudly sportin’ this jersey that my Hunny got me. Go hawks!
Update: I know that they don’t blame the weather, but I can’t help but feel sorry for them because they’re not used to playing in the snow. Everytime they dropped the ball, my heart sank. We still love our Seahawks though. And I hope Holmgren doesn’t retire just yet.
Image from www.seahawks.com
Comments (10)
Hi! Christina sent me a link to see the sneak peak of her wedding pix
Hope you don’t mind~ Looked at your older entries. Really, love the photos! That one “most beautiful wedding dress” is really gorgeous. Wow… – Hannah
go seahawks indeed. i’ll be rooting for them on the east.
I was watching “girls next door” and I thought of you.
Miss you Gracie!
You should’ve took a pic of you in the jersey! :]
i saw that episode too.. must visit denmark one of these days.. but that singapore woman with 300 pairs of shoes and still unhappy.. crazy woman..
that’s very interesting. sad i missed it
I took a sociology class a couple of years ago? and the professor was married to a man from Denmark. She raved about how great it was there ^__^. as for the salary, it’s pretty different for each career, but you get taxed more if you make more and if you make less, you just get a lot of breaks, but the people don’t mind, which was mind boggling because here so many people get upset at a tiny tax increase… Also, they consider a car a luxury item and tax it to be almost double it’s value, so most people can’t afford cars (same with paper plates and cups, I thought that was pretty interesting:)) oh! and they’ve also developed a way not to be dependent on oil, which is pretty amazing! She said that it’s the closest a society came to socialism without a dictator
when she said that I wondered if it was the closest to how people lived during the Acts days 
It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve taken… but it’s seems like it works better for smaller countries… She’s been working on moving there for the last 4 years, I guess it’s pretty tough to get citizenship there.
we watched that too and it was really interesting! we should all move to denmark… (except we’re not blond blue-eyed… which they mentioned in the show)
i like this blog. i do believe it, though that it’d be very difficult for our seattle bubble to embrace that ‘happiness’ mentality. anyway, looking forward to see you and hun soon! =D
of course SM did
.. good ol’ tripod and timer does a good job.