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The international success of the film is said to be "This is happiness!" says. An interesting aspect of the film's international success is that it says a lot about both the ideal of happiness and the extent to which happiness permeates every aspect of our lives today. Happiness is everywhere: on television and radio, in books and magazines, in the gym, in food and diet advice, in hospitals, at work, in war, in schools, universities, in technology, on the internet, at home, in politics and, of course, on grocery shelves. Happiness haunts our cultural image; it has become a part of our lives on a daily basis (per diem) and ad nauseam; Rarely do we go a day without hearing or reading about happiness. Indeed, when we do a simple search for the word “happiness” on the internet, we find hundreds of thousands of results. For example, the number of books on Amazon containing the word happiness in the title was less than 300 before the beginning of the century, but today it has exceeded 2,000. The same increase is observed in the weekly number of happiness-related posts people share on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Happiness has become a fundamental part of a common-sense understanding of ourselves and our world. We are now so familiar with the concept of happiness that we have taken it for granted. This seems so natural to us that it seems unorthodox, if not daring, to question happiness.