HAPPINESS - COLORS MAGAZINE, A SURVIVAL GUIDE
What is happiness and how to be happy. Photos from the Happiness Kingdom in Bhutan, plastic surgery and smiling in America, and drilling holes in heads in the UK | Installation Views
Lexi Lyons, 6 from Kansas, contestant in the “Prettiest Smile”
Chloe Trudell, 6 from Ohio, contestant in the “Prettiest Smile”
Madi Davis, 6, from Arkansas, contestant in the “Prettiest Smile”
Tashi Choden, newscaster, on a set at the Bhutan Broadcasting Service, Thimphu, Bhutan
“In LA if you want to be pretty you can be pretty” Charlene Case
Leksell Stereotactic Frame for positioning drills during neurosurgery, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK
You get it when you win a race and lose it when you get laid off. Governments put it in their policies, preachers in their sermons, writers at the ends of their stories. Scientists say they’ve found it on the left side of the brain. Pursuing it, Americans spend US$20 billion a year on self-help and antidepressants. But wealth isn’t working: people in the West are twice as rich as they were sixty years ago, yet no more satisfied with their lives. Twenty years from now, depression will be the biggest health burden in the world. Joy, euphoria, satisfaction, tranquility, triumph. It comes in many forms. So what makes you happy?
