Sorry, no video today! I decided not to spend the last Sunday in Karachi recording, editing and uploading another video. But here’s one of my popular posts from a year ago.

‘Hector and his Search for Happiness’ was a movie about a psychiatrist who feels guilty of dispensing recommendations to his patients that never change their conditions or make them any happier. So he sets out on a journey to find out what makes people happy. During his interesting and inspiring trip, he makes the following 22 observations:

1. Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.*
2. Happiness often comes when least expected.
3. Many people only see happiness in their future.
4. Many people think happiness comes from having more power or more money.
5. Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
6. Happiness is a long walk in beautiful, unfamiliar mountains.*
7. It’s a mistake to think that happiness is the goal.*
8. Happiness is being with the people you love; unhappiness is being separated from the people you love.
9. Happiness is knowing that your family lacks for nothing.
10. Happiness is doing a job you love.*
11. Happiness is having a home and a garden of your own.
12. It’s harder to be happy in a country run by bad people.
13. Happiness is feeling useful to others.*
14. Happiness is to be loved for exactly who you are.
15. Happiness comes when you feel truly alive.*
16. Happiness is knowing how to celebrate.*
17. Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.*
18. Happiness is not attaching too much importance to what other people think.
19. The sun and the sea make everybody happy.*
20. Happiness is a certain way of seeing things.
21. Rivalry poisons happiness.
22. Women care more than men about making others happy.
23. Happiness means making sure that those around you are happy.

* These are my favourites. Which one is yours?