Being Happy

To some of my friends I am happy person, or "the sunshine boy" that they described. Well, to some of my other friends, they see a darker side of myself - worry about the future, nostalgic with the 'good old days', failed relationships, the urge to achieve something before I hit 30, etc.. I suffered a really hard time when I first came back to Beijing 3 months ago that I felt I have no friends, and that surprised almost all of my friends.

Well, in contrary, I had a great day yesterday. Don't ask me why because I don't know. To investigate into this myself today I think I have done some of the things that mentioned below, the five ways to happiness:

1/ connect

2/ be active

3/ take notice

4/ keep learning

5/ give

Link to the full video: Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index | Video on TED.com

There are subtitles for 15 languages so don't worry about whatever language the speaker uses.

I strongly recommend anyone to spend some time seeing some of the videos that interests them most. Guaranteed to be more interesting then soap operas.

And another great video also about happiness, that I want to share to some of my unhappiest friends:

Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? | Video on TED.com