Today is the International Day of Happiness and it’s a relatively new “international day”. It all started in 2012 when the UN designated March 20th to recognize that happiness and well-being are universal goals and aspirations in everyone’s lives and its importance in public policy. The most famous country for celebrating happiness is Bhutan which recognized the supremacy of national happiness over national income since the early 1970s and famously adopted the goal of Gross National Happiness Product.
So when I woke up this morning and found out, I wanted to celebrate the day with a bit of “happy” music. Here’s the YouTube playlist I put together:
Little did I realize that there’s a campaign by Pharrell Williams and the UN Foundation called the http://24hoursofhappiness.com/. The website is actually pretty cool because every time you visit the website there’s a new happy video based on the time zone. There’s a whole bunch of creative videos from different cities around the world using Pharrell’s song “Happy” – and I guess you need to have some kind of weird character in the video. Did you spot the happy box guy in this Geneva video?