usually when you find something on the internet (or whatever,) its out of context or not entirely true, or something. (there you go, i just made that up.)
so when you find a statistic that says for the past 30-40 years when theyve asked people if theyre "very happy," only 33 percent-- and always about 33 percent-- have said yes.
the rest of us can only hope to compete with such happiness. and this is the context in which i read the statistic-- that for all our efforts to "find happiness," the percentage of happy people has stayed more or less constant. pretty interesting if its true.
but hey-- thats one thing to be happy about. try your *** off, or dont, youll probably be about as happy either way. or something. in my life, too many people want me to try to be more happy, or to blame me for why im not as wonderfully happy as they think i should be. the good news is, now i can tell them to go suck an egg-- for science!
but i should probably look for a link of some kind... here, this ones got "science" in the url, and even goes against part of what im saying-- enjoy!