Comments on: The Happiness Challenge http://newhiptips.com/the-happiness-challenge Tips For Hip Replacement Athletes Who Love Their Active Lifestyle Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: susan mcdonald http://newhiptips.com/the-happiness-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-186 susan mcdonald Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:37:32 +0000 http://newhiptips.com/?p=404#comment-186 As bad as the financial crisis is, I can't help thinking we'll come out better for it in the end. As a nation, we lost our way in the junkyard of consumerism. Who's idea was it anyway that houses had to look like palaces and cars like military transport vehicles? Did we learn nothing from the excesses of the French aristocracy except how to sauté hummingbird eggs? It took a seismic shift, or as Penny says a visit from Swami No Money, to wake us up. I am grateful for the roof over my head, my second hand car, and my mental health. Especially, when I drive by boarded up McMansions and ghostly housing developments. The dark night of the American soul is over, and for that we can thank Swami No Money. Live simply so that others may live is not a bad mantra for these lean times. . As bad as the financial crisis is, I can’t help thinking we’ll come out better for it in the end. As a nation, we lost our way in the junkyard of consumerism. Who’s idea was it anyway that houses had to look like palaces and cars like military transport vehicles? Did we learn nothing from the excesses of the French aristocracy except how to sauté hummingbird eggs?
It took a seismic shift, or as Penny says a visit from Swami No Money, to wake us up. I am grateful for the roof over my head, my second hand car, and my mental health. Especially, when I drive by boarded up McMansions and ghostly housing developments.
The dark night of the American soul is over, and for that we can thank Swami No Money. Live simply so that others may live is not a bad mantra for these lean times.

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]]> By: Happy in Old AND New Greenwich http://newhiptips.com/the-happiness-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-185 Happy in Old AND New Greenwich Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:29:29 +0000 http://newhiptips.com/?p=404#comment-185 You forgot "Still meet with your friends for coffee.....even if it turns out to be a walk at the beach instead!" You forgot “Still meet with your friends for coffee…..even if it turns out to be a walk at the beach instead!”

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