The price of happiness

[Miss Demeanour]

What's the price of happiness? For an average Briton, it's a home worth 500,000 pounds and an annual salary of 42,000 pounds, a new study has revealed.

But, that's not all.

The average Briton would also need at least two foreign holidays every year and have more than 33,000 pounds in savings and investments to be financially content and call before considering themselves 'well-off'.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1381275/The-price-of-happiness.html

I fear I have a long way to go before I will be happy 

[Barman]

Happy Pills it is then....

[Miss Demeanour]

They come in the form of Giant Buttons 

[tel]

Cue the pantomine jokes. 

[Snoopy]

Happiness is a state of mind that can be achieved without material possessions.
Contentment is another matter.

I have been very happy when stony broke and bloody unhappy when well off.

Contentment however requires an acceptance of whatever state you find yourself in but it also needs a lack of ambition. Despite all that has gone before I still have ambition therefore I am not yet content.

These people really need to sort out what it is they are researching before they plough ahead and make themselves look silly.

[Snoopy]

 

People who regularly eat chocolate are more depressive, experts have found.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8644016.stm

[Miss Demeanour]

Define regularly  

A bar a feckin week ...are they having a laugh ...that is not regular ...that 's a feckin famine 

[Snoopy]

 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

What's the price of happiness? For an average Briton, it's a home worth 500,000 pounds and an annual salary of 42,000 pounds, a new study has revealed.

But, that's not all.

The average Briton would also need at least two foreign holidays every year and have more than 33,000 pounds in savings and investments to be financially content and call before considering themselves 'well-off'.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1381275/The-price-of-happiness.html

I fear I have a long way to go before I will be happy 

I too have a long way to go, Keeling some people off would make me content, am I allowed to do that? Have not had a holiday for years, do not and cannot at present own a home of my own, first time since I was twenty, so thirty odd years.  Hate that for what it is worth.

Contentment wise I am in a better place than I have been for many years.

[Nick]

 

I have never had any ambition at all. Is that bad? I have just done whatever seemed interesting at the time. And look where that has got me. ON second thoughts, don't.

[Snoopy]

I have never had any ambition at all. Is that bad? I have just done whatever seemed interesting at the time. And look where that has got me. ON second thoughts, don't.

Everyone ~ even you ~ has ambition. Not necessarily to climb Everest or make a fortune but we all have things we want to achieve. For some that is to take a holiday, others want to redecorate their homes, buy a new house, open a bank account, take someone to bed. These are ambitions.

I am perfectly happy without them but I will not be content until I do. Then my sights will move on.

I know how ill I am and I know I may not make it to next year but I have ambitions. I am planning a holiday, I am ordering some new clothes: because I want to have these things they are my current ambitions.

[Nick]

Praps so. I meant professionally. I have known people who had their career planned up to and including the House of Lords. I always thought them to be sick.

[Snoopy]

Oh yes  ~ I agree entirely. I never had a career, just a succession of jobs, because I had no ambition to climb the greasy pole. My ambitions have always tended toward the short term.

[Nick]

OK, but house buying, marriage and kids just sort of happened. It was never an ambition

[Snoopy]

Kids just came along because my ambition, at the time, was to get into her knickers.

If only I had known then what I know now.