Well, come Thursday the corners of your mouth should be twitching upwards as it’s International Day of Happiness.
It’s not another one of those made-up PR days. No, this one comes straight from the United Nations who proclaimed last year that March 20 should be celebrated the world over to “recognise the relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings”.
None other than Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated that the world “needs a new economic paradigm that recognises the parity between the three pillars of sustainable development. Social, economic and environmental well-being are indivisible. Together they define gross global happiness.”
This bit of blue-sky thinking came from Bhutan, a country which recognized the supremacy of national happiness over national income since the early 1970s and famously adopted the goal of Gross National Happiness over Gross National Product. So we want to know what makes you happy.