September 16, 2015 10:32 AM EDT
T he Internet is filled with articles preaching the gospel of happiness and offering tips on how to find it. There’s How to Be Happier Without Really Trying and What Millennials Can Teach Boomers About Happiness and The 10 Most Unexpected Ways to Be Happy, Backed By Science and if that’s not enough there’s also 10 Steps to a Happier Life, Backed By Research . Basically, everyone wants to be happy and for good reason.
But even if you follow every edict and life lesson contained in those science-backed articles, you will never be as happy as the hedgehog getting a belly rub in this video. It’s simply not possible.
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