A while ago I was reading about hygge — this Danish notion of self-care that is woven through their society. Within the pages of the tome, I found a situation that made me rethink American society as a whole and our supposed Christian values in particular.
Take a good long look at this quote of David Sheff’s from The Little Book of Hygge regarding Denmark’s public outrage over a limited edition Kahler vase:
“The vase quickly sold out. The website crashed…The company producing the vase was hit by a public backlash over the limited supply. Was this too much hysteria over an eight-inch-high vase…Perhaps but Danes have relatively short working weeks and get free health care and a university education on top of five weeks paid holiday per year. Not getting that vase was the worst thing that had happened to them in years.”
Read that again: The worst thing that had happened to them in years.
It’s no wonder Danes are some of the happiest Humans on earth.
Call me crazy — but if the frustration over an out-of-stock vase is your worst-case-life-struggle-scenario — sign me up. I don’t care what you call it — because we can learn a lot about living our best lives from this “socialist…
