Happiness Happens, Even on Mondays

Smile! It may be Monday [insert groan/profanity/yawn], but August 8 is Happiness Happens Day!

In 1999, the Secret Society of Happiness — it's real, I did not make that one up — declared August 8 as Admit You're Happy Day (now Happiness Happens Day).

Thanks to an overwhelming response of not-so-secretly-happy people from around the world, in 2000, the celebration was expanded to include the entire month of August.

There are three purposes of Happiness Happens Day/Month:

1. Recognize and express happiness;
2. Listen to others talk about their happiness;
3. Don't rain on other people's parades.

So if you're happy and you know it... you know what to do.