If you've lost the e-mail, we're reading "The Geography of Happiness" by Eric Weiner for the April Blue Moon and keeping personal happiness journals... While you're reading and writing, here are a couple of questions to ponder:
1. Which of these societies is most appealing to you? Why?
2. If you grew up in a nation unmentioned in the book, how is happiness defined? Now that you live in America, how do you perceive those ideas? Are they "better" or somehow more nourishing than those in the US?
3. If you grew up in the US but moved from region to region (or city to city), how did the notion of happiness change?
4. Are we as Americans now happy?
5. What is your personal definition of happiness? How has it changed as you've aged? As you're writing in your happiness journal, are you surprised at the things that do--and don't--make you happy?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
your link to happiness
Here's the nonprofit dedicated to happiness that Weiner mentions in "Bliss:" www.happiness.org.
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