The Secret to Happiness? It's Helping Others

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There is a saying that goes: “If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.”

For centuries, the greatest thinkers have suggested the same thing: Happiness is found in helping others. The key is to find the approach that works for each of us and our own individual passions. When we do, then the more we give, the more we stand to gain purpose, meaning and happiness — all of the things that we look for in life, but are so hard to find.

And so the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. And the happiness will flow from there.

Filmed in Tulbagh, South Africa.
Featuring Peter Nel.

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Who is Reflections of Life? We are Justine and Michael (previously known as Green Renaissance). We use our passion for filmmaking and our love of storytelling, to remind our audience of one simple truth – that we are all human. The more that we understand and believe in this interconnectedness, the more we will treat ourselves, one another, and planet earth with a greater sense of compassion.

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Editing - by Rignold Haywood and Jackie Viviers
Sound mix - by Tamryn Breakey

Music sourced from ArtList - https://bit.ly/2KfrAt2
Gone - by Beneath the Mountain
Lyell - by Kevin Graham
Drifting Deeper - by Caleb Etheridge
When Stars Align - by Caleb Etheridge
Wildflower - by Gray North
Rooms - by We Dream of Eden

A huge thank you to these guys, who so generously gave of their to time to help with language translations:
Arabic - by Mohammad Alkhudhair
Chinese - by Loretta Jiayi Mao
Croatian - by Davor Bobanac
Czech - by Pavla Látalová
English - by Justine du Toit
Georgian - by Qeti Giorgadze
German - by Tanja Pütz
Greek - by Angeliki Papadimitriou
Hindi - by Parul Sharma
Indonesian - by Ary Nuansa
Italian - by Vincenzo Mocerino
Khmer - by Measraksmey Bou
Korean - by Chloe Park
Persian - by Mona Zadsham
Polish - by Anna Konieczna
Portuguese - by Jonatha Koeller
Romanian - by Nelia Stoyanova
Slovak - by Zuzana Beratsova
Slovenian - by Jasmina Kovačič
Thai - by Pimmi Uamart
Turkish - by Ahsen Aygören
Vietnamese - by Thi Le