article_snippet.sent: Hardly a day passes without a spurious new survey which lists our supposedly favourite things.
article_snippet.sent: An example of this banality last week was one about what makes us most happy.
article_snippet.sent: Among the feel-good experiences were said to be fresh sheets and popping bubble wrap.
article_snippet.sent: Experiences which bring us true pleasure are being with loved ones, enjoying warm weather, eating wonderful home-cooked food and just laughing uncontrollably.
article_snippet.sent: Surely a far more useful exercise is to list every aspect of modern life that makes us unhappy.
article_snippet.sent: AN EXPERIENCE’ Shopping has become a pastime, like making raffia mats or embroidery, and addicts dignify this mindless activity by talking about the ‘experience’.
article_snippet.sent: Everything is an ‘experience’ these days, from a car wash to munching on a burger.
article_snippet.sent: ‘jubilating’ after the country’s recent election.
highlights_snippet.sent: An increasing number of surveys claim to reveal what makes us happiest .
  