Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Happiness

what is happiness? Can you say that person is happy because of having a smile on his or her face? If there is someone, who's holding tears in their eyes, will you just consider them as feeling sad? The answer is absolutaly NO. While, like all those emotions, happiness can hardly realize from a simple expression and gesture. However, we still can figure out what can make people feel happy.
Can money be a stimulus for making people feeling confort? There was a vote for this, and the result was quite shocking for most of us, who held the opinion that money could make people feel happy. Over 93.7% people consider money as a way to improve people's living standar, but not a reason for causing us have the feeling of happiness.
Then, some people may question if money can not make people feel happy, so what can provide people to have a feeling of happiness? Recently, a friend of mine put her place on sale,
bed and furniture, TV and computer, even pots and pans.
many newly arrived chinese ppl came for the stuff today, a good variety of people

among them, there was this couple,
quckly browsing through the items for sale
and then carefully scavenging through things that weren't even priced.
yet they were a loving couple,
satisfied with every piece of treasure they retrieved from our clutter

Looking at them, I saw myself and my hubby so long ago when we first started in Montreal.
We picked up plates and cuttleries from church sales, furnitures from our neighbers.
We raced to the car with the parking ticket police with a five dollar old chair on our shoulders
Recently I was thrilled to see a TV stand at my friend's place,
the exact same model that my hubby once dragged from a second hand furniture shop before my arrival.

Every family endured something. After time goes by, those things become memories, and is all this memories that please us. Therefore, this is the thing that I consider as the stimulus for happiness

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