How do people define happiness?
The top rated mention goes to family. It seems that we might be flat broke and deathly ill, but a loving family will make us happy just the same. Altruism and kindness are also key. It seems we smile by making others smile. Isn’t that nice? No health and no wealth. Just smile. Faith scores big, too. This works out very well, because we can ask our loving family to pray for a speedy recovery and a big win in El Gordo next month (assuming we recover first). What does this mean? It means the spammers have it all wrong. They keep sending us useless emails about making money. A typical spam message says, “Get the insider secrets to making millions on the Internet. I will give you these valuable secrets for peanuts just because I love your smile so much. You could make $5,433 in the next hour if you act now. Hurry. Don’t wait. This is the real thing. You can trust me. All the others are just scammers.” Instead, spammers should be sending offers like, “Get the insider secret to building a lov