ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
by Fred Lowery
Are We Having Fun Yet?
Fred Lowery
In the middte of-our going, doing, buying, pill popping and thrill chasing the phrase ''Are we having fun yet@'' keeps ringing in our ears. If toys and treasures could ma-ke us happy, Americans would be deliriously happy, but we are not. We are destructively depressed. It is a shocking fact that one-third of all Americans wake up depressed every morning. Health organizations validate that depression is our most widespread disease. Affluent America is known as the ''depressive society''. Recent research indicates that only 15-20 percent of Americans consider themselves happy. We do happy things and we have happy times but we are not happy people. We emote disappointment. 'Life is not working out as we had hoped. We are lonely in a crowded world. The American dream has ripped us off in that it has not delivered the happiness it promised.
The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta lists ''lifestyle'' as the major contributing factor in eight out of ten of society's leading causes of death. Dr. Kenneth Pelletier of the USC-Saii Francisco Medical School did a five year study of executives from fourteen major corporations and discovered that only 7 percent of ''successful'' people truly led the ''good life'' that success promises. The study revealed that 93 percent dave up important aspects of their lives in order to make it to the top. It seems that people spend two-thirds of their lives making money and losing their health and happiness and ttien gpend tiie fina'i th4rd of their l,iveandamp; s -ending their money trying tcj .det back their health and happiness. it is estimated that people who are dissatisfied with their lives increase their risk of premature death by at least 10%.
Are we there vet?
Anyone traveling with children has been asked, ''Are we there yet@'' We operate under the popular illusion that true happiness is around the nekt curve, over the next hill, or the next rung in the corporate ladder, or the riex ...
Fred Lowery
In the middte of-our going, doing, buying, pill popping and thrill chasing the phrase ''Are we having fun yet@'' keeps ringing in our ears. If toys and treasures could ma-ke us happy, Americans would be deliriously happy, but we are not. We are destructively depressed. It is a shocking fact that one-third of all Americans wake up depressed every morning. Health organizations validate that depression is our most widespread disease. Affluent America is known as the ''depressive society''. Recent research indicates that only 15-20 percent of Americans consider themselves happy. We do happy things and we have happy times but we are not happy people. We emote disappointment. 'Life is not working out as we had hoped. We are lonely in a crowded world. The American dream has ripped us off in that it has not delivered the happiness it promised.
The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta lists ''lifestyle'' as the major contributing factor in eight out of ten of society's leading causes of death. Dr. Kenneth Pelletier of the USC-Saii Francisco Medical School did a five year study of executives from fourteen major corporations and discovered that only 7 percent of ''successful'' people truly led the ''good life'' that success promises. The study revealed that 93 percent dave up important aspects of their lives in order to make it to the top. It seems that people spend two-thirds of their lives making money and losing their health and happiness and ttien gpend tiie fina'i th4rd of their l,iveandamp; s -ending their money trying tcj .det back their health and happiness. it is estimated that people who are dissatisfied with their lives increase their risk of premature death by at least 10%.
Are we there vet?
Anyone traveling with children has been asked, ''Are we there yet@'' We operate under the popular illusion that true happiness is around the nekt curve, over the next hill, or the next rung in the corporate ladder, or the riex ...
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