Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Miserable Fact of the Day

A recent study found that most people report no increase in happiness after taking a vacation, and even those who do return to their normal levels of unhappiness after only two weeks. [New York Times]

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome thought for spring break. I might as well save my money.

Mrs Floweryapron said...

You can never get away from yourself can you?

Enrique SPY said...

Curiously, the opposite is also true, mot people retun to normal level of happiness after a problem abouut two weeks in too.

Oddly, the same happens to people who suddenly won the lotto.
(sorry, I Don´t remember the source

countrymusichater said...

the fact that this book doesn't have numbered pages, and that it is not in alphabetical order, should have been 2 of the things listed in the book.