2008 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

CHRISTMAS IS AN ANNUAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATED ON THE 25TH OF DECEMBER THAT MARKS AND HONORS THE BIRTH OF JESUS OF NAZARETH.
THE DATE OF CELEBRATION IS NOT THOUGHT TO BE JESUS' ACTUAL DATE OF BIRTH, AND MAY HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO COINCIDE WITH ANCIENT ROMAN SOLAR FESTIVALS THAT WERE HELD ON DECEMBER 25.
CHRISTMAS IS CELEBRATED WORLDWIDE AND KNOWN TO BRING HAPPINESS IN EVERYONES HEARTS AS WE REMINISCE THE BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. THE SAID EVENT IS ALWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH HAPPINESS AS IT BRINGS HOPE.

AS WE PUT BACK THE HANDS OF TIME WHEN THE LORD SACRIFICED HIS ONLY SON TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS. INDEED, IT ALWAYS CONVEYS POSITIVE ENERGY TO OUR SOUL. AND GIVES US THE SENSATION WHICH WE MAY REFER TO AS HAPPINESS.
PHILOSOPHERS AND RELIGIOUS THINKERS HAVE OFTEN DEFINED HAPPINESS IN TERMS OF LIVING A GOOD LIFE, OR FLOURISHING, RATHER THAN SIMPLY AS AN EMOTION. IN EVERYDAY SPEECH TODAY, TERMS SUCH AS WELL-BEING OR QUALITY OF LIFE ARE USUALLY USED TO SIGNIFY THE CLASSICAL MEANING, AND HAPPINESS IS RESERVED FOR THE FELT EXPERIENCE OR EXPERIENCES THAT PHILOSOPHERS HISTORICALLY CALLED PLEASURE.
THE PHILIPPINES IS THE 17TH HAPPIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, THE NATION BESTED MORE THAN 160 COUNTRIES IN THE HAPPY PLANET INDEX INCLUDING INDONESIA (23), CHINA (31), THAILAND (32), MALAYSIA (44), INDIA (62), ICELAND (64), THE NETHERLANDS (70), SPAIN (87), HONG KONG (88), DENMARK (99), NORWAY (115), SWEDEN (119), FINLAND (123) AND AUSTRALIA (129).

THE INDEX COMPILED BY THE BRITISH THINK-TANK NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION, COMBINES LIFE SATISFACTION, LIFE EXPECTANCY AND ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT -- THE AMOUNT OF LAND REQUIRED TO SUSTAIN THE POPULATION AND ABSORB ITS ENERGY CONSUMPTION.

WORLDWIDE FILIPINOS ARE KNOWN TO BE HAPPY DESPITE PROBLEMS COMPARED TO OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES. ALTHOUGH THE ADVENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT BRINGS FAST-PACED DEVELOPMENT, THERE REMAINS ONE THING THAT FILIPINOS FIND HAPPINESS ON SIMPLE THINGS.

UNIVERSIDAD DE MANILAS DEAN OF COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, MR EFREN QUIRAY EXPLAINS WHY FILIPINOS ARE MOST OF THE TIME DISPLAYS HAPPY DISPOSITION IN LIFE.




WHILE, PROFESSOR NENITA SANTOS, ALSO FROM UDM SAYS FILIPINOS BEING STANCH BELIEVERS GIVE POSITIVE ENERGY TO FACE LIFE DESPITE HARDTIMES.




AT THESE TIMES WHEN PRICES OF GOODS ARE ON ITS PEAK AND FINDING OPPORTUNITIES TO EARN AMPLE MONEY IS NOT THAT EASY, WE FIND WAYS TO COPE AND GET ALONG.
WHILE MAKING THIS SPECIAL REPORT, I CANT HELP BUT RECALL HOLLYWOOD ACTOR WILL SMITHS MOVIE, PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, WHERE IT QOUTED THOMAS JEFFERSON, WHO WROTE THE FAMOUS UNITED STATES DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. AND I QOUTE, "LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ". REALLY HOW DOES THOMAS JEFFERSON KNEW THAT HE HAS TO INCLUDE THE WORD PURSUIT ON THE WORD HAPPINESS. I GUESS SAME AS WHAT THE MOVIE IMPLIES, YOU HAVE TO FIND WHAT WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY INSTEAD OF WAITING TO BE HAPPY.




I WENT ON THE STREETS TO SEE IF PEOPLE, THESE HARD TIMES KNOW HOW TO CHASE HAPPINESS OR SIMPLY WHAT WILL MAKE THEM HAPPY THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON.




SOME MIGHT WISH SANTA CLAUS FOR BRAND NEW CAR, HOUSE AND LOT, LAPTOP, TOPCLASS DIGITAL CAMERA THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON, IM NOT SAYING ITS BAD BUT WE MUST NOT FORGET THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS. THE BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, WHICH PROMPTS HOPE TO OUR SOULS FOR A NEW BEGINNING AND FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS, THIS SEASON LETS TRY TO LESSEN OUR COMPLAINTS AND PESSIMISM. DESPITE HARDTIMES, LETS REMINISCE HOW GOD SACRFICED HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON SO THAT WE WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO LIVE WITH HIM FOREVER.

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