Daily Happylogues, 100 Happy Days , Day 3, Forgive

If I were to tell you that paraplegics and lottery winners had no difference in happiness due to their calamity or fortune you will find it difficult to believe but it’s true. Let’s look at an important and startling study. “In 1978, a trio of researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Massachusetts attempted to look at what makes us happy by asking two very disparate groups about the happiness in their lives: recent winners of the Illinois State Lottery — whose prizes ranged from $50,000 to $1 million — and recent victims of catastrophic accidents, who were now paraplegic