The Happiness Report (1.31.23)

Daughter Completes Bucket List Her Late Dad Made the Year She Was Born: 'I Know He's Proud'

Laura Carney is a freelance copyeditor for PEOPLE who has spent the past five years and 11 months completing a bucket list of items penned by her father in the year she was born, and which she discovered only after he was tragically killed by a distracted driver when she was 25. Here, she writes about completing the list, and learning what it means to rebuild that connection.

"We named the dog Indiana."

"It's a show about nothing!"

My dad was the king of the catchphrase. A comedian, salesman, writer and piano bar singer, he was only alive for 25 years of my life, but when I hear classic movie and TV lines, his spirit lives on.

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Source: PEOPLE

MrBeast Helps 1,000 Blind People See Again

American YouTuber MrBeast is using his success to do some good.

In his most recent video, he cured 1,000 people's blindness by paying for their eye-surgery.

"In this video, we're curing 1,000 people's blindness," says Jimmy Donaldson, a 24-year-old known online by his moniker MrBeast, in a video which has garnered more than 45 million views in just 48 hours.

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McDonald's Drive-Thru Worker Receives Timely Letter From A Stranger

A fast food employee had her day made by a complete stranger.

She was working the drive-thru window at her local McDonald's when a stranger handed her an envelope.

"All he said to me was 'open this at your convenience'," the woman recalled.

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Holocaust survivor is finally reunited with the family that saved his life

After more than 60 years of searching, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor was reunited with the descendants of the family that saved him from the Nazis.

David Rossler and his family spent decades trying to track down the distant relatives of George Bourlet. 

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Source: Fox

Six Lifestyle Choices to Slow Memory Decline Identified in 10-Year Study of Aging

A 10-year study of Chinese adults over the age of 60, showed that a healthy lifestyle, in particular a nutritious diet, is associated with the slowing of memory decline in older people.

The major new research published in The BMJ, showed that the benefits of healthy living were even seen in those with a gene making them genetically susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease.

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Source: Good News Network

Kittens Both Rescued After Storms in Unique Ways Find Their Path to Each Other One Day

Erin, a foster volunteer of Wrenn Rescues, was notified about a tiny kitten who had been rescued from a car engine during a recent storm in SoCal.

"He was found by the owners of an auto shop. The finders did everything right -- they monitored the kitten, waited for the mom's return, but she never showed again. She was probably spooked by the storm," Erin shared with Love Meow.

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Jane Fonda and Rita Moreno champion the perks of aging: 'You get better at everything.'

ake it from the ultimate leading ladies themselves, getting older can also mean getting better.

In the upcoming sports comedy “80 for Brady,” legendary stars Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Lily Tomlin and Rita Moreno play best friends and devoted fangirls to Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who are hell-bent on watching their favorite football player in the Super Bowl. The story was inspired by a gang of real-life besties from 2017.

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Source: Upworthy