Happiness! : A professor gave a balloon... - Positive Wellbein...

Positive Wellbeing During Self-Isolation

9,738 posts

Happiness!

MichaelJH profile image
13 Replies

A professor gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it and throw it in the hallway. The professor then mixed all the balloons. The students were then given 5 minutes to find their own balloon. Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon.

At that point, the professor told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to the person whose name was written on it. Within 5 minutes, everyone had their own balloon.

The professor said to the students: "These balloons are like happiness. We will never find it if everyone is looking for their own. But if we care about other people's happiness, we'll find ours too".

Amazing.

Written by
MichaelJH profile image
MichaelJH
To view profiles and participate in discussions please or .

The ability to reply to this post has been turned off.

13 Replies
happytulip profile image
happytulip

I like that.

springcross profile image
springcross

This is really good, thanks. x

Veteran250 profile image
Veteran250 in reply to springcross

Satisfaction guaranteed 🙂👍

Roukaya profile image
Roukaya

Very trueThe person who wrote the best seller the seven habits of highly effective people went on to become a Pastor and he wrote the eighth habit by which he said

Fulfilment lies oh helping others along your path

Again Muhammad Ali one of the greatest humanitarians that ever lived said

Service to others is the rent we pay on Earth for our room in heaven

If ever I succeed to finally become a Licensed Probate Practitioner I would put this motto in my office

stillaboveground profile image
stillaboveground

Very true, very profound.

Sheila_G profile image
Sheila_G

I love that. What a great analogy. Thank you for sharing it.

Craftyperson profile image
CraftypersonReading Rabbits

That's lovely

Craftyperson profile image
CraftypersonReading Rabbits

Would you mind if I shared this please?

MichaelJH profile image
MichaelJH in reply to Craftyperson

Not at all! It was shared to me...

Craftyperson profile image
CraftypersonReading Rabbits in reply to MichaelJH

Cheers

Floxxy profile image
Floxxy

Great, that is so true. X

RLN-overcomer profile image
RLN-overcomer

That is is a lovely, and insightful reality. Thanks for adding joy to this forum.👍😀 Have a blessed day, and weekend😀👍

MichaelJH profile image
MichaelJH in reply to RLN-overcomer

Thank you...

The ability to reply to this post has been turned off.

You may also like...

Complete happiness 💕 and some BAD jokes 🙂

her dog yesterday. I asked if I could guess it's name. She agreed, but she did say \\"You'd be a...

Happy Thursday it is not😭

life is just one big round of shit (sorry admin)found out today my son's father has not long to...

Ever tried to define happiness? This guy did

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual...

HAPPY NEW YEAR ROUKAYA

be a good year for you and bring you hope, happiness and a fresh start. So I'm sending you my...

Proud of myself!!,happy wend 😋😊😉

packs for three quid what's not to love!!? Hope everyones enjoying some sun have a lovely weekend...