The Good Life is Built with Good

在我们的一生中，什么能让我们保持健康、觉得幸福？

What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life?

If you were going to invest now in your future best self, where would you put your time and your energy?

We're constantly told to lean in to work, to push harder and achieve more.

We're given the impression that these are the things that we need to go after in order to have a good life.

Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.

很多人的幸福都是记忆力带来的，然而记忆也会经常撒谎。

Most of what we know about human life, we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20.

We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative.

好的人际关系能让我们更健康。

Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.

There are three lessons about relationships:

(1). The social connections are really good for us, and that loneliness kills.

(2). Good、close relationships seem to buffer us from some of the slings and arrows of getting old.

(3). Good relationships don't just protect our bodies, they protect our brains.

Relationships are messy and they're complicated and the hard work of tending to family and friends. It's also lifeling. It never ends.

The good life is built with good relationships.

Quote from Mark ​Twain：

“There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, hearburning, calling to account. There is the only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that."