Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Confucius

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  Pushkin.

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  The COVID-19 pandemic has taught many of us a lot about what we need to do to live a happier life.

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  And the biggest thing that many of us have missed is all the social stuff,

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  those little family, friendship, and relationship traditions,

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  going bowling on your boyfriend's birthday, or that monthly sit down dinner at grandma's,

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  or Friday night drinks with your work buddies.

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  Many of us have also missed all those public events that were obliged to attend.

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  They've all been changed or canceled.

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  I've seen this firsthand as a professor and head of college here at Yale.

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  Those time-honored Ivy League commencement rituals that have been practiced for hundreds of years,

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  they all got axed last year.

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  If you had asked me before the pandemic, I might not have thought of that as such a bad thing.

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  I mean, graduation rituals can be a bit dorky.

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  But what have many of us realized over the last year?

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  It turns out we really miss this stuff.

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  Now, I am not a pomp and circumstance kind of person,

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  but these rituals have a way of making you feel more connected,

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  like you're a real part of family or community, like you're a bit less out of step with life.

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  But another reason I started to appreciate all these formal rituals was because of a class I stumbled on during COVID.

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  Can you sing that song?

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