’m quite sure happiness is a theme I will be revisiting since improving the happiness of the exceptional Mr. W. and myself is paramount to Project Simplicity. I’m very curious about what makes people happy, not just myself, but what generally makes people describe themselves as happy.
Here is kind of an interesting article on wealth and happiness from the New York Times:
I doubt I could be as dedicated as the woman in the story, but I do think that the stuff she’s done is amazing. What interests me the most about the piece has to do with the idea that people get the most “happiness” from experiences rather than from objects.
I know this to be true in my own life and indeed if you look much of the stuff in my house you will find that lots of it is essentially experience related. I’ve got loads of books, DVDs, a few games, and most of the animals are completely related to experience. One of the things that I think will be a focus in our project and replacing as much of the stuff as we can with experiences. How we are going to manage this is no doubt going to result in a load of new entries.
Now here is a gratuitous photo of me being all happy with my doggy.
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