AND HOW ARE WE TODAY?

Today, our company is standing extremely well and the brand is developing and expanding all over the world! But we are interested in how we stand as an MLS community or how we stand as people?

Our company is very advanced and the goal is to reach the largest scope of the community that we can. We use the most popular social networks, and try to follow the modern world and what people and the community strive for today!

Social networks, as you know, are simply put: without them it's hard to reach you!

We use Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter and Pinterest.

As an MLS community we are strong and every member and comment is one step higher! We create daily blogs, posts, news, comments, feedback and everything that can help you and us for a stronger and bigger community.

But how do we stand as people? Do we ask ourselves this a lot today or rarely?!

How happy are people today? Were people happier in the past? How satisfied with their lives are people in different societies? And how do our living conditions affect all of this?

These are difficult questions to answer; but they are questions that undoubtedly matter for each of us personally. Indeed, today, life satisfaction and happiness are central research areas in the social sciences, including in 'mainstream' economics.

Social scientists often recommend that measures of subjective well-being should augment the usual measures of economic prosperity, such as GDP per capita.1 But how can happiness be measured? Are there reliable comparisons of happiness across time and space that can give us clues regarding what makes people declare themselves 'happy'?

In this entry, we discuss the data and empirical evidence that might answer these questions. Our focus here will be on survey-based measures of self-reported happiness and life satisfaction. Here is a preview of what the data reveals.

Surveys asking people about life satisfaction and happiness do measure subjective well-being with reasonable accuracy.

Life satisfaction and happiness vary widely both within and among countries.

It only takes a glimpse at the data to see that people are distributed along a wide spectrum of happiness levels.

Richer people tend to say they are happier than poorer people; richer countries tend to have higher average happiness levels; and across time, most countries that have experienced sustained economic growth have seen increasing happiness levels.

So the evidence suggests that income and life satisfaction tend to go together (which still doesn't mean they are one and the same).
Important life events such as marriage or divorce do affect our happiness, but have surprisingly little long-term impact.

The evidence suggests that people tend to adapt to changes.

And what about the other side, the dark side of people and our feelings?

Everywhere you look today, people are stressed out. Many reach a breaking point and sink into depression – a mental health issue few of our grandparents or great-grandparents experienced.

Or is it?

Perhaps people 50 or 75 years ago just didn't talk about depression, and didn't seek treatment for it. After all, effective treatments weren't exactly available back then. Maybe people today are more willing to admit to depression, and that's why it looks like everyone is so stressed and depressed. That's one reason why many researchers are skeptical of the claim that mental health issues have become more common.

One way to get around this problem is to look at anonymous surveys that ask about anxiety and depression. Even better, ask about symptoms of anxiety and depression - that way, people aren't saying they are depressed outright. Instead, they are reporting how they actually feel.

How can that be? Most people don't realize that having trouble sleeping and remembering are symptoms of depression. Many people admit to being stressed or overwhelmed but do not consider themselves depressed. The problem is that stress (psychologists usually call it anxiety) is a risk factor for depression, and depression doesn't always appear as extreme lethargy and sadness; it often shows up in bodily symptoms.

1. Our relationships and community ties are weaker.

2. We're more focused on goals such as money, fame, and image, which Tim Kasser's work has shown is correlated with anxiety and depression.

3. Our expectations are too high, probably because of the emphasis on "you can be anything you want to be" and highly positive self-views. This was a big theme in the first edition of Generation Me, which came out in 2006, and other observers—I believe independently—came to a similar conclusion, such as Tim Urban ("Why GenY Yuppies are Unhappy") and Bret Easton Ellis ( "Generation Wuss").

There are probably other reasons. I doubt technology is the major one, as tempting as it seems; these increases were in place long before cell phones and Facebook. Ditto for the recession. Instead, something else in our culture seems to be making people unhappy.

Feel free to add comments and share your opinions with us because we are all a community and a big family!