 Good afternoon. The first item of business this afternoon is time for reflection. Our time for reflection leader today is Tim McGuire, a celebrate of the Humane Society of Scotland. Presiding Officer, thank you very much for inviting me to speak today. Members of the Scottish Parliament, I hope that you would agree the aims of politics and philosophy are the same, to increase happiness and wellbeing. Llemiadau sy'n annibololion. Maen nhw ddych chi nesaf y gwirio sicrhau ymateb feddwl yma. O'r UUN wedi bod arleidio y dyfodig o wrthaboriach hefyd a Llemiadau frasig, Scythlau, oherwydd, o'r Unig, i'r ffraith yma i gyrhaeth yw hunain ar y FWI20. Fodd y cwestiynau ymddangbolaeth, fod Scythlau'n yn digon i gwirio'r ll lies. Ond arlo'r unrhyw ymddangbolaeth, yw gallwn ni wedi cyfnod. Mae'r cyd-fodol, ond i'n ddoch i gandd, yn dod o'r fawr yn y cyfnodau hefyd, dwi'n gyfrifio ysgrifennu, ysgrifennu'n ddiddordeb yn Ymddiriedd mewn cyd-fodol. Yn y rhaid i'n gwybod Condynas Trafolaeth, yng Nghymru wedi'i llwyddonio ar gyfer y cyd-fodol. Ydw'n gweithio sydd fydd yn y cerdd. Fy genai ydych yn fyddi'r gwleidio'r rhag oed o'r rhag oed o'r cyd-fodol, ac yn ysgolio'r hyffordd, yn ysgolio, ac yn ysgolio. Y hyffordd yn hyffordd yn y gweithio'r wneud, ond yn fwy oedd yn ysgolio'r linell. That began to change in 1776, when Thomas Jefferson, inspired by the writings of the Enlightenment philosophers, Francis Hutchison and David Hume, enshrined the pursuit of happiness in the American Declaration of Independence. Since then we've come rather to regard happiness as a universal human right. But, and it pains me to say this, we Scots weren't the first to conceive this radical idea, because almost 40 years earlier, halfway across the world, in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the legal code decreed, if the government cannot create happiness for its people, there is no purpose for the government to exist. Bhutan remains one of the poorest states in the world, but for 40 years now it's inspired governments everywhere to look beyond GDP as a measure of a nation's health. Because Bhutan in 1977, I think, was the first country to measure gross national happiness, and now we're all doing it. Just last week the Office for National Statistics revealed that the happiest place in the UK is for manna, while Londoners remain amongst the most miserable people in the country. But the paradox of happiness is that we only find it when we're searching for something else. And I think the 19th century humanist philosopher Robert Ingersoll put it best, as he said, happiness is the only good, and the way to be happy is to make others so. Members of the Scottish Parliament, may you find happiness by making the people of Scotland happy. Thank you for listening. I'll see you next time.