The return of the "happy days" is now.
More exactly, this Wednesday, May 19, when the terraces of cafes and restaurants finally reopen.
We are going to
"rediscover our French art of living"
, the leitmotif of Emmanuel Macron, who likes to rock himself with words.
The Head of State is right to evoke this promise of happiness, and this is not the time to be a killjoy.
Now it's up to everyone to build their own and to appreciate it at their fair price as they see fit.
Is it possible to measure what belongs to our interiority?
"Happiness is to feel enveloped, reminiscent of the security experienced in the mother's womb",
said the philosopher Theodor Adorno.
For twenty years, however, sociologists and economists have seized on it, striving to assess what they call "subjective well-being".
Read also:
Eat, drink, have fun ... If we stopped depriving ourselves?
David Khayat's plea for a return to the art of living
In 2011, the OECD launched an annual report entitled,
Comment va la vie?
The UN sponsors the
World Happiness Report
taking stock of “well-being”
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