Saturday, 12 January 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, outlookThese 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
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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.