Deep Thoughts by Jack Camel (1)

It's funny how I can be so wrapped up in my own life when over 100.000 people no longer have lives. Ripped from them by a massive tsunami.

Studies show that how happy we are has nothing to do with wealth and power. It has to do with us, the individual in the body. The study I am thinking of is classic to psychological lore. Particularly, the researchers followed three groups of people, major lottery winners, paralyzed accident victims, and a control group. Turns out that after a period of time people tended to return to thier pre-windfall/pre-disaster mentality.

So the moral of this rant is that being happy is a personal choice. I complain alot. But am I happy? Other studies tell us that like 70% of people categorize themselves as "happy." But to talk to people, you'd never know it. We have a tendency to focus on negative things. So that means to me that if you want to be happy, it's up to you.

I tried to reference these facts, but I couldn't find freely available abstracts...and I'm too lazy to keep looking...