Last year, results from a Gallup poll created some commotion here by claiming based on surveying people's expressiveness of positive emotions that Singapore's population are some of the most unhappy people in the world. This year an Eden Strategy survey has claimed that, to the contrary, Singaporeans are among Asia's happiest people.
What gives?
You know the phrase mind your own business? How about trying to mind your own happiness, too. Is it not enough to just be happy; is it so important that your happiness is validated by a survey? Besides, these surveys measure one thing (eg. how many times a person smiles or includes a smiley in their FB status updates) and then make grand conclusions about another thing altogether, in this case the happiness levels of populations. Just throw them out the window already.
Stop putting such store by these supposed measure/s of happiness; as if it's some grading system or certification. We already have beloved national exams for that. If you're happy, you're happy regardless of how many surveys in the world may say otherwise. And vice versa.
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