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What Is Happiness: “A Yawn”


A couple weeks ago, I had a late lunch with a coworker. Since I have never hung out with this coworker outside of work, I decided to initiate a conversation with my list of introspective questions, one of them being “What is happiness?” After he shared his answer with me, I was inspired to start my “Smile and Be Happy” mini-docu series that I’ve been wanting to get back into since college.

Below is the first video of the series and below the video is the transcript. Enjoy!

“To me, personally: a yawn. You don’t even realize it but you’re doing social interaction then if you’re doing a yawn. Let’s say you’re in public with your friends, otherwise, or even at work, that’s an interaction that you didn’t even realize just like there. I’m scared of being alone so I’m happy when I’m not alone. Honestly, happiness is whatever you choose and whether you realize it or not. I don’t think I even realized I chose a yawn to be my happy thing, but I always perk up whenever someone else yawns. Especially if I got them to, it’s like a little mischievous play.”

Smile And Be Happy is going to be a weekly video posting focused on positive psychology. Stay tuned for next week’s posting =)

...and as always, smile and be happy =)