{"id":402,"date":"2018-04-30T01:34:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T05:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2018-04-24T01:37:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T05:37:12","slug":"happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does it exist anymore??<br \/>\nDo people still understand joy?<br \/>\nUncontrollable laughter?<br \/>\nDoing things which are kind, positive, generous, with no expectations?<br \/>\nBeing nonsensical?<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s political correctness enables a terrible fear to express joy and imagination.<\/p>\n<p>In England, being \u2018eccentric\u2019 is virtually a badge of honour, it defines an individual free of social binds, and a willingness to follow one\u2019s own path.<br \/>\nWalk on any major street in London, or go to the street markets, and see the most incredible outfits, exhibited with utter freedom.<br \/>\nGo to the Royal Enclosure at Ascot on Ladies\u2019 Day, and witness the most extraordinary hats and a spectacular fashion parade. Photographers from all over the world congregate to photograph the spectacle, and the fun people are having.<br \/>\nTotal freedom from criticism and judgement. Freedom to be creative and happy and act it out.<\/p>\n<p>When did you last experience true bliss??<\/p>\n<p>Go to a trendy restaurant, a social event, look around and see how many people are actually having fun, laughing, being free. Having actual conversations, looking at one another, giggling , but not at the expense of others.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone takes life so seriously, they forgotten the concept of happiness, laughter, joy. Everything is all about image, prestige, power, or the perception of same, instead of actually going to an event to enjoy the experience and the company of those around them, actually enjoying the moment.<\/p>\n<p>When is the last time you did something to give joy to another person?<br \/>\nTo make them laugh?<br \/>\nFeel important?<br \/>\nSmiled at a stranger?<br \/>\nDid something kind for a stranger and not expecting anything in return, or expecting bragging rights?<br \/>\nHad a conversation with someone and made THEM feel important?<br \/>\nNot being cruel, selfish.<\/p>\n<p>Try and make someone happy today. It is extremely contagious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does it exist anymore?? Do people still understand joy? Uncontrollable laughter? Doing things which are kind, positive, generous, with no expectations? Being nonsensical? Today\u2019s political correctness enables a terrible fear to express joy and imagination. In England, being \u2018eccentric\u2019 is virtually a badge of honour, it defines an individual free of social binds, and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/?p=402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happiness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79,5,9],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-impressions","category-quality","tag-dont-worry-be-happy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p61fNh-6u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}