Did you ever wonder what happy people have in common? It turns out that people who are basically content and happy have some similar routines and ways of doing things.

Happy people:

• Spend a lot of time socializing
• Go to church
• Read the newspaper

Happy people do NOT:

• Watch a lot of television

Isn’t that interesting?  It’s the unhappy people who watch television according to a new study.

People who describe themselves as happy DO like to watch TV, but it turns out that this is the single activity that they do less of than unhappy people.

The focus of this study was not so much on demographic characteristics of happy people (age, marital status, etc.) but more about trying to identify the activities that happy people engage in.  The study could not conclude whether unhappy people watch more tv or whether being glued to the tv is what makes them unhappy, but the data did show that people who spend more time watching tv are the most unhappy in general.