Why Don't Sheep Get Depressed? A Guide to Happiness

By Joan Pont

"If life today demands so much of me, what can I do to live up to it?"
This is one of the great questions of our time, an uncertainty that causes us serious anxiety problems.
As a child, on my grandmother's farm, I discovered that sheep don't have depression. Why don't they and we do? There was something that differentiated us, something that I discovered in adulthood when, immersed in darkness, I could not find a way out.
In this book I will explain how to make your mind hide the bad memories, leaving only the good experiences to achieve a life of fulfillment and well-being.
"The only way to be happy is the ability to forget".
Joan Pont

Joan Pont lives on the island of Mallorca. A former bodyguard for military authorities and a stockbroker, he now devotes himself exclusively to literature.

JOAN PONT'S WORKS AVAILABLE
Series "Yes I want. Yes, I can". (Translated into multiple languages)
1- How to write your first book and publish it online.
2- Essential tips to prosper economically in life.
3- Help, my son/daughter wants to be a youtuber!
4- The 12 commandments of independent self-publishing.
5- Searching for you Balance. Keys to Stoic Thought
6- Why don't sheep get depressed? A guide to happiness

Youth series Tom, the tik-toker pig (translated into multiple languages).
1- A pet for Tom
2- Hikikomori, solve your problem!

• Language: English
• Publisher: JPJohnson Books
• Release date: Nov 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9780463597453

Joan Pont

Joan Pont, que publica sus grandes sagas con el pseudónimo J. P. Johnson, vive en la isla de Mallorca. Ex-guardaespaldas de autoridades militares y broker de bolsa, actualmente se dedica en exclusiva a la literatura. Es autor de las célebres sagas El Quinto Origen, La Venganza de la Tierra y El Diablo sobre la isla, además de la serie de autoayuda Sí, quiero. Sí, puedo.LIBROS DE J. P. JOHNSON.Serie El Quinto Origen1-Stonehenge2-Nefer-nefer-nefer3-Un Dios inexperto4-El sueño de Ammut5-Gea (I)6-Gea (II)Serie La Venganza de la Tierra1-Mare Nostrum2-Abisal3-Phantom4-Un mundo nuevo5-Ultra Neox6-Éxodo.Glaciar. (Ecothriller)La Chica de la Gran Dolina. (Tecnothriller)The Black Book. Una historia del metaverso.OBRAS DE JOAN PONT.Serie El Diablo sobre la isla1-El Diablo sobre la isla.2-Venganza.3-Perros de Guerra.Serie Benet.1- Jamm Session. (La primera entrega del detective Toni Benet)2- Puro MediterráneoNO FICCIÓNSerie "Sí quiero. Si puedo" (Traducida a múltiples idiomas)1-Cómo escribir tu primer libro y publicarlo online.2-Consejos imprescindibles para prosperar económicamente en la vida.3-¡Socorro, mi hij@ quiere ser youtuber!4-Los 12 mandamientos de la autopublicación independiente.5-En Busca de Tu Equilibrio. Las claves del pensamiento estoico.Serie juvenilUna mascota para Tom (traducido a múltiples idiomas)Encuentra a J. P. Johnson / Joan Pont en:Email: [e-mail]: pontailor2000.wixsite.com/jpjohnsonTwitter: @J_P_JohnsonFacebook: facebook.com/pontgalmesInstagram: j.p.johnson1

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Table of Contents

1- THE LAMB THAT WENT SMILING TO THE SLAUGHTER.

2- HUMANS GOING TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE (Multitasking)

3- THE SHEEP ARE NAVY SEALS (Training)

4- HUMANS WHO FORGET THE DEATH OF THEIR CHILDREN (Overcoming Sadness)

5- THE SHEEP THAT DO NOT WANT THE HERB THAT THE SHEEP NEXT TO THEM EATS (Control of feelings)

6- THE SHEEP AND THE BURNOUT (Stress at work)

7- THE HUMANS WHO FORGET LOVE (Sentimental Relationships)

8- LAMBS WHO DO NOT LET THEIR MOTHERS SAVE THEM FROM THE TRUCK (Daughters and sons)

10- SHEEP DO NOT NEED TO BUY A CAR (Money Management)

11- THE OLDEST SHEEP LEADS THE FLOCK (Living adult life serenely)

Why don't sheep get depressed?

A guide to happiness

Joan Pont

For Mamen.

Why don't sheep get depressed? A guide to happiness.

© Joan Pont Galmés [2022].

All rights reserved.

1- THE LAMB THAT WENT SMILING TO THE SLAUGHTER.

As a child, I sometimes spent time on my grandmother's farm.

I, a city boy, was suddenly immersed in a completely different world.

On the farm there were countless animals: dogs, cats, chickens, turkeys, pigs, cows and sheep.

I really liked the sheep. At first I had the impression that they were the stupidest animals on the farm, but I still loved to watch the flocks heading towards the pastures, controlled by the dogs.

It took me many years to realize that those docile animals had reached a perfect balance in their existence.

Grandma Bet was a tall, strong and smiling woman, even though she had lost two children and a husband.

I didn't understand any of that, I was too small, I didn't start to wonder about things until much later, when discouragement came into my life.

When I arrived at the farm my vision of the world changed completely, it opened up to multiple horizons, so many that it was impossible to worry about any one in particular, and I left behind the oppressive atmosphere of my home, an apartment in the center of the city.

My father had died recently, although I have to admit that, for me, the tragedy passed in a superficial way, because I was too small. All around me, on the other hand, there was misfortune and pessimism, because my father's manner of death had been the result of a word that was always avoided: suicide.

On the farm the days were placid for a child. Get up, eat breakfast and then walk around all day, but there was something I didn't like at all: listening to the noise of the truck coming to take the lambs to the slaughterhouse.

That happened every couple of months. The suckling lambs had to be slaughtered so that Grandma could earn money to keep the farm going, and even though I protested, cried and threatened to run away to the woods forever so they wouldn't take those precious bouncing animals with hair as soft as cotton, the truck never turned around.

There was nothing to be done. The little lambs were led to the ramp where they climbed into the truck, the driver would sign a note to Grandma, and the vehicle would drive off down the road, dodging the potholes.

Meanwhile their mothers would call to