The World’s Happiest People

Hard to comprehend, but Bangladesh is the happiest nation in the world. Shocking, I know! The happiness survey was done by London School of Economics. Data is not very new, it might have dropped some places lately.

However, how on earth could that be? This is a land plagued by environmental disasters, lack of infrastructure, health and education, and I can go on and on. And still, Bangladeshis derive far more happiness from their small incomes than many other rich countries like USA or Britain. And as far as I know people here aren't doing Prozac.

This proves that Bangladeshis have defeated poverty with their natural sense of joy and happiness. You will find people here who smilingly doing all his/her works only with a income of less than a dollar per day. With life being harder here, there are lower expectations. People ask for less because they know they can’t afford it. The relative hardships one faces here have led to a greater appreciation of the smaller joys in life.

I did not take me long to realize this is not a poor country. It does have a lot of people trying to make ends meet every single day. But it is the one who can not smile even if he has a lot of property and money, who is really poor. It is the one who can't be happy with a little or with others' happiness. And that is for sure not the Bangladeshis.

And like Harry Kemp said:

"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream"