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Realigning for Happiness
I was recently reading an article on happiness in America. The individuals moved out of America and became happier in the process. They stated, “it turns out that we don’t have mental health issues, we simply needed to be out of America.” This sounded strange to me. After all, America is the country that everyone wants to enter, not leave. However, I wanted to dissect this statement and figure out the root cause of it. It’s something that I’ve heard from friends and family that live abroad.
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It turns out that I didn’t have to think much about it. When you hear their dream scenarios, it’s living in a small community where the emphasis is on “walking” and “grilling.” It’s not meant to be a joke. The amount of times that my father-in-law has stated that all he does when he’s in his house in Europe is grill is now numbering in the hundreds.
What do we do here? Even those of us that are comfortable enough financially to not worry about feeding our children stress out. Why? Because of this purchase-mentality. Most of us get suckered into it. How many…
