20th March is recognized as the International Happiness Day that encourages us to stay happy and content in life. Although, we should stay happy always but this day demands our special attention where we should forget our life’s difficulties and focus on simply being happy and making others happy too. Therefore, it is the day when we should put aside all the negativities and celebrate positivism and also work towards attaining true happiness.
Additionally, International Happiness day recognizes that happiness is a basic human desire, and calls upon countries and governments to formulate policies in people’s interest that could lead to comfort and positive human development.
Table of Contents:
History of International Happiness Day
Theme of International Happiness Day 2022
International Happiness Day celebrations
What is True Happiness?
Conclusion
History of International Happiness Day
International Happiness day is celebrated on March 20 annually. This day was officially announced as International Day of Happiness in 2012 by United Nations (UN) at Conference on happiness. The day was first celebrated on 20th March, 2013 with an aim to prioritize global happiness and its impact on world development and peace. This day was introduced by Advisor Jayme Illien, CEO of the UN New Economic Paradigm Project and founder of “happytalism”.
According to the UN, this day symbolizes the need of happiness as an essential part of universal goals and aspirations. Additionally, it is also realized that happiness aids in economic growth of a country and promote overall well being of entire humanity.
Furthermore, this day is observed as a holiday and celebrated by a number of organizations including Happinessday.org, Action for Happiness, and the United Nations wherein people share their experiences and stories about making themselves feel happy and cheerful.
Theme of International Happiness Day
The theme of International Day of Happiness for the year 2022 is,
Keep Calm, Stay Wise, Be Kind
Keep Calm – Keeping calm in every situation is the key to happiness.
Stay Wise – In tough situations, wise steps leads to success in life.
Be Kind – Be kind to others in their needs, it will lead to happiness in your life.
International Happiness Day celebrations
There are various ways in which we can celebrate International happiness day at home or at workplace. The motive is to be happy and spread happiness. By holding small events we can share happiness with near and dear ones.
However, to celebrate this day, the UN secretariat for the International Day Of Happiness, has called for a ‘10 steps to Global Happiness’ challenge and invited 7.8 billion people and 206 nations to participate.
The 10 Steps are given below:
Tell everyone.
Do what makes you happy.
Pledge to create more happiness in the world.
Celebrate a happiness month event.
Share your happiness with the world.
Promote the resolutions.
Host an event to spread happiness to your peers
Advance global goals.
Badge in on all your channels.
Come back on Earth Day.
In addition, renowned global education promoter company Coursera has also shared 3 ways to celebrate International Happiness Day as mentioned below:
1. Learn something new – Learning helps us to improve our lives by developing new skills. When we engage ourselves in learning new things then our happiness also blossoms.
2. Connect with your community – By organizing small events and involving community makes a huge difference and helps to spread more happiness.
3. Practice inclusivity –It helps people to overcome challenges of social isolation and loneliness.
What is True Happiness?
On the eve of International Happiness day to sole motive is to spread happiness in life. However, very few of us are aware about true happiness. Do you know? Well, roughly speaking true happiness is a king of happiness that stays forever within us and one never feels low in life. It’s not about pretending to be happy or showing others your happiness.
True happiness is an emotional state of mind which is achieved through inclusion of positivism and joyful emotions. Now, the question is how to achieve true happiness?
Revered Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan postulates that the only sure shot way to achieve true happiness is through ‘Meditation’. It is the sole method by which one can become stress free and create a sense of peace, joy, and strength within oneself and live a content life.
The power of meditation is beyond imagination. It can enrich the soul with absolute energy, making the things possible that seem impossible. Meditation is magical and those who realize the magic, enjoy the abundance of joys.
Conclusion
The ultimate aim to celebrate International Happiness Day is to bring happiness in one’s life that stays forever and also to promote happiness at the global level by sharing happiness with others that could solve various challenges the world and people are going through and maintain peace.
