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On the Path to Happiness: Hygge - Miss Known
This post is the first off (hopefully) much more to come about archiving happiness. And to help me with that, I’m going to travel throughout the world to find traditions and/or activities that make people happier. I’m taking this journey through books in order to learn new cultures and people. This time is Denmark, with The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking, the president of the Happiness Research Institute. Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. Benjamin Franklin Meik ends the book with this quote which I believe sums up not just hygge but how you can conquer happiness in your own life. For me, every single human being as one dream in common, happiness. Although to archive it each one has a different way. Some might what to be rich, other to have a big family or a beautiful house, or maybe that latest model sports car… Whatever brings happiness to you, it’s the ultimate goal in life. Maybe you can’t see it, but you deep down are searching for happiness. And that’s when books like this come into play. They make you think and rethink your life, about your choices or maybe just remembering the past. I had the best hours reading this book. I read it from cover to cover in the hope to learn or even discover the secret of how to be happy. For some reason, no one seems to discover why Danish is considered one of the happiest or even the happiest nation in the world. And why do you ask? Well, I don’t know! On my mind, I believe their culture takes a very important part since they kept traditions through generations. It isn’t a perfect country, it has its own problem like any other, although they still manage to feel happy. The primary reason, and what this book is all about, is Hygge. If you never heard about it, it’s ok, I just knew this was a thing at the beginning of the year. I discovered this book through social media, more specifically Instagram. The cover is gorgeous and for some reason, I made my mind to buy it. I usually don’t even buy this type of books, so I’m not entirely sure why I thought...
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