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How Do You Define Happiness? by: David Leonhardt I ran a contest in 'Your Daily Dose of Happiness' to see how people define happiness. I was stunned to discover that I am the only person who defines happiness as an extra helping of cheesecake. There were other shockers, too. We know that money can't buy happiness ... except, of course, when we are flat broke. But I figured several people would define happiness, at least in part, as a bulging bank vault or 'financial freedom'. Just three people cited money in their definitions of happiness. I also figured many people would cite health as part of their definition of happiness, as in 'health, wealth, and happiness'. But only four people mentioned health. No health? No wealth? How do people define happiness? The top rated mention goes to family. It seems that we might be flat broke and deathly ill, but a loving family will make us happy just the same. Altruism and kindness are also key. It seems we smile by making others smile. Isn't that nice? No health and no wealth. Just smile. Faith scores big, too. This works out very well, because we can ask our loving family to pray for a speedy recovery and a big win in El Gordo next month (assuming we recover first). What does this mean? It means the spammers have it all wrong. They keep sending us useless emails about making money. A typical spam message says, 'Get the insider secrets to making millions on the Internet. I will give you these valuable secrets for peanuts just because I love your smile so much. You could make $'5
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