What makes a good life? 【TED TALK SUMMARY】

What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness.

「The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.

從75年的研究中， 我們得到明確的結論是： 良好的人際關係能 讓人更加快樂和健康。」

「The first is that social connections are really good for us, and that loneliness kills. It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected. 

首先，社會關係對我們是有益的， 而孤獨寂寞有害健康。我們發現，那些跟家庭成員更親近的人， 更愛與朋友、與鄰居交往的人， 會比那些不善交際、離群索居的人， 更快樂，更健康，更長壽。」

「Our most happily partnered men and women reported, in their 80s, that on the days when they had more physical pain, their mood stayed just as happy. 

在那些參與者中最幸福的夫妻告訴我們， 在他們80多歲時， 哪怕身體出現各種毛病， 他們依舊覺得日子很幸福。」

「It might be something as simple as replacing screen time with people time or livening up a stale不新鮮 relationship by doing something new together, long walks or date nights, or reaching out to that family member who you haven't spoken to in years, because those all-too-common family feuds爭吵 take a terrible toll on the people who hold the grudges生悶氣.

最簡單的，別再跟屏幕聊天了， 去跟人聊天， 或者一起嘗試些新事物， 讓關係恢復活力， 一起散個步或晚上約個會， 或者給多年未曾聯繫的親戚打個電話， 因為這種家庭不和睦太常見了， 但它帶來的傷害又很大， 尤其對那些喜歡生悶氣的人來說更是如此。」

「I'd like to close with a quote from Mark Twain. More than a century ago, he was looking back on his life, and he wrote this: "There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that."

我想要用馬克．吐溫的一句引言來收尾， 100 多年前他在回顧人生的當下， 寫下這引言： “时光荏苒，生命短暂， 别将时间浪费在争吵、道歉、伤心和责备上。 用时间去爱吧， 哪怕只有一瞬间，也不要辜负。”」