What makes us happy?

There is and still is a study going on about what makes us happy and it had two hundred and sixty eight young men who entered college in the late nineteen thirties, just imagine a study going for this long.

From time to time I will give you some of the finding of the study, but I am not going to give you it in one big bite.

Because the study went on for so long there were several heads of the program, but one that stood out is Dr. Valillant. He is a story in himself, but we’ll leave that for another time.

One of the things that were found out in the study was some the traits that these men had that gave them a long and happy live especially in their later years. The ones that had these traits in their fifties ended up living into their eighties, but those that had three or less of the traits didn’t end up happy or well at eighty. And that is if they made to eighty.

I am happy tell you that at fifty I had five of the eight traits. So I guess I am going to be OK at eighty.

Education is one of the traits that are important and I qualified for that and another is a stable marriage. Micki and I are going on forty six years of marriage and both of us it is our first marriage.

So of the other things are not smoking, which I did when I was younger but stopped at the age of twenty seven. Smoking was easy to stop for me because they didn’t taste good. But I must tell you for a long time I did like the smell of someone else smoking, but not anymore.

I will only take a non-smoking room. The stale odor of cigarette smoke is revolting to me.

I’ll cover more of those things that help you have a long and happy life in the future.

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