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September 11, 2001, changed many things for many people. All of a sudden, things that had seemed so urgent – that new SUV, those designer jeans, that trip to Hawaii – somehow lost their significance, as people turned back to those best things in life that have always been free: family, friendship, togetherness. Politicians like to call them “family values”. Suzanne Cane y Olvera calls them “the only things that really matter.”
It is ironic that there are courses for everything: medicine, law, typing, sewing and even dancing – indeed, for everything except how to live a happy life, raise happy children, and avoid the pitfalls that can turn life into unending misery.
It does not take a lot of work. Hard to believe, but making yourself and your loved ones miserable is a lot more complicated. Misery actually requires more energy, more hassle and even more money.
The No-Sweat Guide to a Good Life examines the mistakes that people fall into so easily, especially in light of today’s materialism and stress levels – and teaches us how to avoid them.
Suzanne Cane y Olvera was born and raised in New York. When she was twenty-five, she took a vacation in Mexico City and ended up marrying and living there to the present day.
Life in Mexico City has been no easy thing, she says, but she feels that it has taught her a lot. She has learned that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. She has learned that you are stronger than society lets you think you are. She has learned that no one can take care of your children, or your business – or yourself – like you can. She has learned that there is a lot more to life than “stuff”.
Of herself, she says, “I have everything I want, and, for what I don’t have, I have a good excuse. I am one of the happiest people I know.”
It is ironic that there are courses for everything: medicine, law, typing, sewing and even dancing – indeed, for everything except how to live a happy life, raise happy children, and avoid the pitfalls that can turn life into unending misery.
It does not take a lot of work. Hard to believe, but making yourself and your loved ones miserable is a lot more complicated. Misery actually requires more energy, more hassle and even more money.
The No-Sweat Guide to a Good Life examines the mistakes that people fall into so easily, especially in light of today’s materialism and stress levels – and teaches us how to avoid them.
Suzanne Cane y Olvera was born and raised in New York. When she was twenty-five, she took a vacation in Mexico City and ended up marrying and living there to the present day.
Life in Mexico City has been no easy thing, she says, but she feels that it has taught her a lot. She has learned that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. She has learned that you are stronger than society lets you think you are. She has learned that no one can take care of your children, or your business – or yourself – like you can. She has learned that there is a lot more to life than “stuff”.
Of herself, she says, “I have everything I want, and, for what I don’t have, I have a good excuse. I am one of the happiest people I know.”
