It's been a very delightful reading time with this my very first "non-textbook" book with geography title hhe. And Eric Weiner, has successfully given me that damn fluctuation of feelings and thoughts, which of course not the simple one, and still ensues a great deal of admiration at the end. I especially like his satirical jokes, like I just love it a lot! I would be happy to marry a person with his kind of humour. Like seriously, I mean it. Besides he indeed loves his wife to the moon and back. He literally said, if he wanted to worship someone, there's always his wife. Sarcastic and sweet simultaneously, that's a miracle to be featured in one single human being, I suppose. But Weiner has it. Well, the book itself, I can say...very reflective. The pursuit of happiness turned out to be a journey of mixed pleasure, indulgence, woe, furry, sadness, irony, hopelessness, gratitude, and...happiness. I don't know whether happiness is a right term here. Indeed, I am just aware that happiness is not always a happy moment, it's maybe just a relieving feeling or grateful, or unburdened, or love. Weiner traveled to 10 countries, well to be exact 9, because America is his home, and he aimed to know where is the happiest place in the world. That sounds ridiculous for some, for me that's the best question you should have at least once in your life time. Hhe. Weiner visited netherlands, switzerland, bhutan, qatar, iceland, moldova, thailand, great britain, india and ended his journey to define happy place in his home, america. There were so many things he discovered during his travel and not even a single theory can explain why certain country can be considered happier than the others. Money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. There's more than one path to happiness. Places are the same. It's not the elements that matter so much as how they're arranged and in which proportions. #books #reading #bookreview #geographyofbliss #happiness #ericweiner #happy #bliss
