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Hawaii is Happy - Lodestone - 03-09-2016
Hawaii ranks #1 in "happiness". West Virginia is 50th. Sounds about right.
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/03/03/americas-happiest-and-most-miserable-states-3/2/
RE: Hawaii is Happy - pahoated - 03-09-2016
Of course, there are always things like domestic disputes, accidents, different diseases, people losing it, but overall, Hawaii is a place where it is allowable to be happy. Everybody that has been here for awhile feels the inner energy from being here. Even the homeless seem happy, not miserable like mainland homeless. That's why it's called Ha-Ha-Hawaii.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
RE: Hawaii is Happy - PunaMauka2 - 03-09-2016
Strumming ukulele vs plucking banjo
Gone fishing vs shootin possum
Mai Tai vs moonshine
Barefoot and pregnant vs hapai with slippers
Snake handling vs dodge the mongoose
Spam vs scrapple
Hands down...
RE: Hawaii is Happy - Guest - 03-09-2016
I spent my first night in Hawaii at Hookena Beach with my daughters about ten years ago. Divorced single dad. We arrived two hours off a plane in a rental car with some camping gear as the sun was going down. As I turned off the engine, an attractive Hawaiian woman wearing a flowered dress was sitting on a wall strumming a ukulele and quietly singing as the waves lapped the shore and the palms rustled in the breeze. Some men nearby were laughing, speaking Hawaiian and drinking beer. A few young people were walking around aimlessly, chatting and laughing. There was smoke from a small fire. A drunk was passed out sleeping peacefully against a tree. A dog trotted by, ignoring him. Some stray cats skulked in the bushes. There was a lava waterfall that had been marked as a religious kapu site. I had no idea what kapu meant. Was it a kind of coconut?
I felt that I had stumbled into a trap. I will never get out of here alive. Leave if you can. Run. Abandon everything. This place will never hold you less tightly and you will sink deeper and deeper. Into happiness.
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You can't fix Samsara.
RE: Hawaii is Happy - TomK - 03-09-2016
"[...]Hawaii is a place where it is allowable to be happy."
I'm just happy, er, pleased, to find a place where it's allowable for people to be happy. Of all the other places I might have chosen, none have laws that allow someone to be happy, so I ended up choosing this place where I'm allowed to smile and laugh without being arrested.