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    FINDING THE SMILE

    Oct 20, 2019 4 minutes
    BY HANNAH JAMES
    ARTWORK BY DENIS SHECKLER

    PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

    THE BEST WAY TO FIND JOY? IT STARTS WITH REDEFINING WHAT HAPPINESS MEANS TO YOU

    FAIRYTALES STILL WRAP their endings up in a bow with “happily ever after”. But for those of us living in the real world, slipsliding our way through the fast-moving, hyper-connected, always-on 21st century that’s careering closer to climate catastrophe, happiness seems ever more elusive. New statistics bear out the suspicion that we’re all hovering on the verge of burnout and despair, and plenty of high-profile figures have made their mental-health battles public, including Sophie Turner, Cara Delevingne, Lizzo and Ariana Grande.

    Yet we also have more resources at our disposal than ever. Society’s treatment of mental

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