According to researchers from the Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego, happiness spreads through their social networks like an emotional contagion, and believe it or not, they claim they have the proof to support their inclaim.
In a study they did some time ago they show that the chances of friends living within a mile of participants who were happy were 25% higher. Not only that, but the chances of their friends, and even the friends of those friends showed an increase in their chances of happiness, even if they didn't know the participants that volunteered to take part in the study.
If that sounds plausable at all, it should come as no surprize to find they found that sadness exhibit much the same quality, although according to their data doesn't seem to spread as efficiently as happiness. All of which confirm what we've known all along:
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you weep alone,
Wink at the world and it will glint you a smile, frown and it won't.
If you'ld like to know more about similar startling scientific discoveries about happiness, and the reason, rhyme and rhythm of living life well, you're welcome to visit my blogspot at http://tripping2beta.blogspot.com.
And if I may, I'd love to hear your thoughts on why we are who we am, how we came to be the marvel that is we, and what the reason is that we still are, and continue to be the most obstinate obtuse of a being that evolution ever begot in diversity.
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