Can you believe that it took a 20 year study to "scientifically" confirm that happiness is contagious. But I don't think that's a news flash, do you? Do we really need a 20 year study, which tracked more than 4,700 people, and its subsequent report published in a British medical journal, to tell us that one smile can influence another smile.
Being nice and happy is not only good for you, but good for others. No duh, right. Now granted, I appreciate that common sense is not so common - but still - it's a no duh, right. Oh yea, in a parallel no-duh ... it really does turn out that misery loves company: that's now a fact as well. Oh goody. Now, while I jest at this study, one thing that I did get from it is this important data point: That happiness spreads outward by three degrees - i.e. to the friends of friends of friends. And that happiness spreads more consistently and more quickly than unhappiness.
Science has spoken. And it says: Don't be a grump, be happy.
And pass the happiness on.
Happiness is Good.
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