Yellow Day: Why is today said to be the happiest day of the year?

From the creators blue mondayarrives yellow day. Literally. The same person who started promoting the supposedly saddest day of the year Cliff Arnall, later decided to do the same with the happiest. In fact, both days were invented almost simultaneously, in 2005. Yellow Day is not a specific day of the week, as it is celebrated June 20fall when he falls.

In this case, the factors that Cliff Arnall took into account in choosing Yellow Day were rise in temperature, daylight hours, approaching holidays and the beginning of the summer working day. It’s true that all of this can give us a certain amount of joy, but from there, it’s a long way to go to classify it as the happiest day of the year.

And the fact is that it actually has the same lack of meaning as Blue Monday. In fact, it’s even more difficult because happiness is hard to define. For each person it will be something completely different. What’s more, a rise in temperature can be the opposite of happiness for many people.

Do summer temperatures affect anything?

Rising temperatures are a key factor in Yellow Day. But do they really bring us happiness?

On the one hand, when they are pleasant, we spend more time outdoors, in nature. There are many studies that show that spending time outdoors, in places like the beach or the countryside, is beneficial. good for mental health.

However, on the other hand, we have extremely high temperatures. This month, June has already brought several heatwaves to places like Mexico. In Spain we even had one in early spring. yellow day temperature They are not exactly cute. In this sense, research suggests otherwise. It is known that heat can negatively affect mental health. It even increases the propensity for violence. Therefore, there is little happiness in a day that, even worse, takes into account only the northern hemisphere.

Yellow day is just another day

If Blue Monday was born with advertising purposes, Yellow Day is just another excuse for discounts and all sorts of marketing promotions. But is there any benefit to this? Of course not.

In Blue Monday, we saw that what is known in psychology as self-fulfilling prophecy. The fact is that because of the fear that something will happen, we unconsciously act in such a way as to facilitate this event. For example, if we are afraid of failing an exam, we may become so overwhelmed that we misread questions and answer them incorrectly so that we end up failing. We fail not because the exam was difficult or because we were not prepared, but because we were afraid to fail.

If Blue Monday is filled with ads reminding us that it’s the saddest day of the year, we may not enjoy the things that normally make us happy, and thus we end up be sad. On Yellow Day, a self-fulfilling prophecy can happen, but for the better. Since this is supposedly the happiest day of the year, it’s possible that we’re making the most of these good times.

Therefore, we must behave every day as if it were a Yellow Day. Because in reality there is no absolute happiness, there are only moments that make us feel good. If we act voluntarily, we can enjoy them more. Although maybe not. Because life is also full of bad moments. A positive attitude won’t always help us avoid them, so we just need to learn how to live with them. First of all, learning that there are no blue or yellow days, there are only days. And what, let’s look at them fromNo matter what color we see them, we are neither better nor worse. We are just alive.