Title: Where is Happiness?
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where is happiness
On July 29, Professor Adrian White (psychologist) of the University of Leicester in the UK surveyed the happiness index of 178 countries around the world. The United States is 23rd, the UK is 41st, and in Asia, China is 82nd, Japan is 90th, and Korea is 102nd.
In a global happiness index survey, the happiness index was higher in poor countries such as Bhutan and Brunei than in wealthy countries such as the United States and Japan. You can see that possessions and happiness are not necessarily proportional.
Yet, people blindly pursue possessions as if chasing a rainbow.
Recently, I met a butler, whose business went bankrupt, his body died from liver and stomach cancer, his wife passed away, and he lives with a single father who has passed away and his son who is not married until he is 40. From a worldly point of view, he seems like a very unfortunate person.
He is like Job. He went bankrupt and why did this happen to me?
He said he had a lot of resentment. He even said that he wanted to die when he got sick and his wife passed away.
Moreover, believers bring maturity of faith and wonderful blessings.
In this way, God does not leave his loved ones alone, but trains them in love.
He causes us to let go of what we cling to, fearing that we will miss out on something truly precious and of eternal value.
At that time, when the visible world, which we depend more on than God, disappears, the invisible love and grace of God become more clearly visible.
It would be better for us to realize true gratitude and love even after we have lost it than to live and complain about what we have already been given.
Let's look forward to what kind of good results you will achieve through the great and small difficulties that are currently happening to you. (Romans 5:3,4)