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$\"\"$ <\/a>Our family spent a week in Colorado on vacation a few weeks ago. It was a much needed break and we had a ton of fun together. The 2nd half of our week we spent in Breckenridge. BTW, you can get killer deals on condo rentals in Summit County in the summertime. We had been hiking and knocking around town for about a day when my oldest son said, \u201cIt\u2019s weird. Everybody in this town is really cheerful and happy.\u201d My first response was to say, \u201cYeah, they legalized pot in Colorado last year.\u201d Luckily I refrained and we talked about how you know somebody is happy, and what keeps us from feeling happy. It turned out to be a good conversation. But I\u2019ve been thinking about it ever since.<\/p>\n

What makes us happy? What makes us unhappy.<\/p>\n

I ran across an interesting info-graphic from The Huffington Post<\/em>. They look at where people report to be living the happiest lives, and then show the results on a map of the U.S. It\u2019s pretty interesting. When you look at the happiest cities on the map, they are all pretty big pot-smoking cultures\u2026 I\u2019m just saying. Should we be looking at this?<\/p>\n

First off, let me say I\u2019m joking. I\u2019ve never smoked pot, it\u2019s true. I\u2019ve never done any illegal drugs. I\u2019m completely square and always have been. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea to smoke pot, or smoke anything for that matter. But I do want to point out that in the places where pot is legalized and regularly used, one of the cultural conditions is a less judgmental attitude.<\/p>\n

I think judgmentalism is inversely correlated to happiness. I\u2019m conditioned to see this now. When I see happiness, I almost always see people who do not judge each other constantly. Where people are judgmental, they are unhappy.<\/p>\n

When my son and I talked about what makes for happiness, that\u2019s what I told him I see. Out of all of the things that Jesus taught us about, I think maybe this one is the most important: do not judge. Judgmentalism leads you down a path that will literally make you miserable. I must confess that I\u2019m a work in progress on this one, but I feel like I\u2019m making strides.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if it is possible to be \u201chappy\u201d in this world, I hope it is. But I know this: being judgmental will absolutely make us unhappy.<\/p>\n

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