So many happy words.  Here are the ones rated most highly in order of reflection of happiness: 

Laughter, happiness, love, happy, laughed, laugh, laughing, excellent, laughs, joy, successful, win, rainbow, smile, won, pleasure, smiled, rainbows, winning, celebration, enjoyed, healthy, music, celebrating, congratulations, weekend, celebrate, comedy, jokes, rich, victory, Christmas, free, friendship, fun, holidays, loved, loves, loving, beach, hahaha, kissing, sunshine, delicious, friends, funny, outstanding, paradise, sweetest, vacation, butterflies, freedom, flower, great, sunlight, sweetheart, sweetness, award, chocolate, hahahaha, heaven, peace, splendid, success, enjoying, kissed, attraction, celebrated, hero, hugs, positive, sun, birthday, blessed, fantastic, winner, delight, beauty, butterfly,entertainment, funniest, honesty, sky, smiles, succeed, wonderful, glorious, kisses, promotion, family, gift, humor, romantic, cupcakes, festival, hahahahaha, honour, relax, weekends, angel, b-day, bonus, brilliant, diamonds, holiday, lucky, mother, super, amazing, angels, enjoy, friend, friendly, mother’s, profit, finest, bday, champion, grandmother, haha, kiss, kitten, miracle, mom, sweet, blessings, bright, cutest, entertaining, excited, excitement, joke, millionaire, prize, succeeded, successfully, winners, shines, awesome, genius, achievement, cake, cheers, exciting, goodness, hug, income, party, puppy, smiling, song, succeeding, tasty, victories, achieved, billion, cakes, easier, flowers, gifts, gold, merry, families, handsome, lovers, affection, candy, cute, diamond, earnings, interesting, peacefully, praise, relaxing, roses, Saturdays, faithful, heavens, cherish, comfort, congrats, cupcake, earn, extraordinary, glory, hilarious, moonlight, optimistic, peaceful, romance, feast, attractive, glad, grandma, internet, pleasant, profits, smart.

Any guesses why the number of ha‘s in hahahaha are rated differently in no predictable order? I, for one, have no clue. Can’t even come up with a sensible hypothesis. I do know, though, that these ratings were part of a larger study that looked at words linked to positive and negative emotions (I’ll spare you the list of unhappy words, but will say that terrorist made first place. The research was probably done before Trump’s inauguration….) 

Note, also, that heroes, victories, billion, promotion, diamonds and earnings are on the list. One does wonder about our hierarchy of values, no? 

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/the-200-happiest-words-in-literature/490916/

The ratings were needed to be able to do computer analyses of the emotional trajectory of stories, all kinds of literary stories from the bible to romance novels. Counting the happy or unhappy words in 2000 works of fiction, this is what a group of researchers, from the University of Vermont and the University of Adelaide, found: you can classify each into one of six core types of narratives (based on what happens to the protagonist): 

The clip attached below has Kurt Vonnegut explain in much funnier ways than I ever could: do yourself the favor and listen to him for the 5 minutes it takes.

Since flowers appear on the list as a happy word (I concur) and fairy tales ranked high on the story arc pyramid, today’s photographs are of flowers that look like out of a fairy tale. I saw them some years ago at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and they are all made out of glass. https://hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers