It is clear. It doesn't take that much to be happy. And doing a historical sweep only confirms this reality. Were any other civilizations that passed through this planet less happy? Happiness is a subjective impression that can be perfectly adjusted to what there is.
And precisely, what there is now is a lot of frustration, of truncated inaccessible dreams, of clay idols, of empty moral and social references, of marketing illusions towards material happiness. Yes, we are possibly more unhappy than any other civilization that passed through this world.
This new book Happy: Happiness Your Way, by Elsa Punset, delves into this here. Not that I'm very passionate about self-help books, but I don't think this one is either. Rather, it is a journey to the past, to that wisdom more attached to the land and to the circumstances of each people, a very distant perspective on this world of connection, immediacy and distorted references.
Knowing how our most remote ancestors could be happy can be surprising and enlightening about the confusion in which we move. The greatest exponents of each historical moment offer us the testimonies towards that search for happiness, always difficult but not always as perverted as now ...
If you allow yourself the luxury of taking this walk, you will soak up large doses of truth about the most abstract happiness, that of existing and living with equals and with nature, that of breathing and that of seeking your luck among providence, which is get when you can be a little freer than you probably are right now.
You can buy the book Happy: happiness your way, Elsa Punset's new book, here: