How Create Your Own Happiness

Frank Sarpong
5 min readApr 28, 2022

And your life will be full of light…

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Growing up in Ghana, there was this Pub in the community called “Create Your Own Happiness”. I always wondered why that statement? Happiness could be anything depending on who you ask.

For some, happiness means achieving their goals, or becoming wildly successful in a certain career. For others it is the accumulation of cash — FAT Bank account.

However, happiness can be a complicated element, and can be found in small, often overlooked ways. Being able to discover these small “happy elements” or pills can change your life forever.

In this article, I will propose five small happy elements or pills that can make your day a little brighter:

Hugs

Hugs are a popular form of communicating love and trust. However, they serve more than just saying, I care for you.

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Hugging serves to reinforce bonds between two people through the secretion of oxytocin, which is one of the three happiness hormones, along with dopamine and endorphins.

Oxytocin also has other benefits like, lowering blood pressure, and reducing the stress…

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