Are You Happy and Healthy?
Staying healthy and happy is a struggle for about half of Americans, according to a massive survey that attempts to measure the nation’s general welfare, much like the Dow Jones Industrial Average portrays the health of the stock market.
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, based on interviews of more than 100,000 people so far, shows that 47 percent of Americans are struggling and 4 percent are suffering. Forty-nine percent of respondents are reported to be thriving based on a personal assessment of how they feel about their lives at the time of the survey, and where they think they’ll be in five years.
Are you happy and/or healthy?
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I am healthy, my family is healthy, and all of my monthly bills get paid. I am not wealthy, nor am I poor. But happy? It’s hard to be happy when our economy, and national infrastructure is slowly slipping away. My outlook for the future of the United States is bleak, and I am deeply concerned over what the future holds for our children. No I am not happy. I am just thankful that I am still able to make ends meet (barely), and that I still have my good health.
I can’t believe it took someone to do a survey to figure this out!!!! DUH!!!!! When you can’t pay your bills on time, can’t take vacations with your kids, can’t even afford birthday presents for them - then He__ yeah your gonna be depressed. It takes a brain surgeon to figure that one out! Money doesn’t solve everything but it sure makes things a lot easier. I am NOT happy and the stress of living is putting my health at risk!!!!!!!
Yea, and they spend $20 million a year on this useless study. I am having trouble making my taxes this year (I got an extension), my daughter has asthma my wifes health insurance company won’t help with, (they won’t even insure me, I weigh too much) my skinny, supposedly healthy son contracted cancer right after he was done with his third operation to repair his leg he shattered in a car accident, business is lousy right now and we’re broke because the high deductable on my wife’s insurance has tapped us out.
…and yet the federal, state, and local governments want me to subsidize the high level health benefits of government employees, teachers, medicaid & medicare beneficiaries, and imprisoned criminals.
I guess I’m about a 3 on their ladder, ’cause at least my 150 year old house is paid for (except for the yearly rent..err,…property tax I pay on it)…but Atlas is gonna shrug pretty soon…
most peoples are unsatisfied from life they just need to change the way they think