New to the board, fairly newly LBS from MLC.

[tigerlily78]

I ran across this in a HuffPost article the other day and thought it was interesting. Just further conformation that those of us DB'ing are putting ourselves on the path to real and lasting happiness, and our WAS and Exes are taking a path towards constant longing and jumping hurdles to get fulfillment from all the wrong things:

"Not all happiness is created equal, and in your own pursuit of joy and bliss, keep in mind that the type of happiness you're after can make all the difference. A recent UCLA study found that eudaimonic happiness -- that which was linked to having a larger purpose or sense of meaning in life -- was linked with healthy gene activity, whereas hedonic, or pleasure-seeking, happiness was not. Those who were happy because they had a sense of purpose in life had lower inflammatory gene expression and higher antiviral and antibody gene expression than others.

"Eudaimonic happiness is something you build up over a lifetime," Shimon Edelman, cognitive psychologist and author of "The Happiness Of Pursuit," told The Huffington Post. "In a sense, it's a great consolation for older people -- it's nice to know that on that component, people can get more and more happy as they age if they led good lives."