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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sancho" data-source="post: 1302221" data-attributes="member: 27039"><p>Great thread. Don´t know how I missed it. I think any "Happiness Programme" includes re-connecting with nature and solitude. Not for nothing that 40 days in the wilderness or something similar features in the mythologies of so many religions. Great book: "Nature Cure" by Richard Mabey. Right on this topic. A modern "Walden". Couldn´t agree more about the swimming, Vectisbirder, I go twice a week, and with cycling, it helps to blow away the cobwebs and blues. I think what many people don´t get is that "happiness" or "contentment" have to be worked at, they don´t come naturally. And "modern life" (or maybe life in general) can throw up many difficulties that aren´t helped by waiting for things to improve, brooding, watching T.V., or unhealthy living. (I´m not suggesting for a moment that folks who suffer from more depression than the average are authors of their own misfortune, more that the walls between oneself and the darkness are paper-thin and have to be held in place). Wow...I´m freaking myself out here. Going back to a frivolous thread for a few laughs......<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>