Get Connected
September 13th, 2010Most of us spend our lives striving for happiness. Recent press reports point out that money, up to a point, can bring contentment. Apparently a salary of up to £50,000 a year can bring happiness but after that more money does not increase happiness. As this is pretty well double the average salary in the UK, this would suggest that the average worker is not happy.
Fortunately, money is not everything. Professor Shira Gabriel in her paper “suggests that the events that end up being most important in our lives, the events that bring us the most happiness and also carry the potential for the most pain, are social events – moments of connecting to others and feeling their connections to us….. It was not independent events or individual achievements like winning awards or completing tasks that affected participants the most, but the moments when close relationships began or ended; when people fell in love or found a new friend; when a loved one died or broke their hearts. In short, it was the moments of connecting to others that touched peoples’ lives the most.”
I have always known that humans are social animals. Professor Gabriel has now shown that we humans experience our most intense experiences when we interact with other individuals. It follows then that to increase our happiness we need to get out there and meet others. So if you are single start dating, expand your social circle, perhaps find a soulmate – and make your life more fulfilling.
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