Want to Be Happy? Buy More Takeout and Hire a Maid, Study Suggests
That article views life almost the opposite as I do.<p>1. I have long been inspired by Gandhi&#x27;s having cleaned toilets in his ashram and he seems to have accomplished a fair amount of meaningful things. Monks garden and clean things in part to increase self-awareness and inner tranquility. The structure adds to my life, not detracts.<p>2. Happiness isn&#x27;t &quot;out there.&quot; It&#x27;s &quot;in here.&quot; Same with freedom. I suppose I could be happy and feel free either way -- doing my chores or outsourcing them, but doing them seems simpler.<p>3. Actually, the amount of garbage takeout creates is unconscionable to me. I couldn&#x27;t live with myself filling landfills at that rate.<p>4. My home cooked food tastes better, is more convenient, costs less, is healthier, and is better in every way for me than takeout. The problem that takeout solves isn&#x27;t time. It&#x27;s ignorance of how to source fresh fruits and vegetables and to prepare them. Solving that problem improved my life more than take out ever could.<p>5. I incorporate cleaning my apartment into my workout routine, sweeping and mopping between sets. It doesn&#x27;t cost extra time.<p>I feel the article misses the point of what creates happiness and freedom, but to each his or her own.