What keeps us healthy and happy

What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life? If you were going to invest now in your future best self, where would you put your time and your energy?

一生を通して私たちを 健康で幸福にしてくれるのは 何でしょう？ 最高の未来の自分に 投資するなら 自分の時間とエネルギーを 何に使いますか？

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

それは富でも名声でも 無我夢中で働く事でもなく 75年に渡る研究から はっきりと分かった事は 私たちを健康に幸福にするのは 良い人間関係に尽きるという事です

The first is that social connections are really good for us, and that loneliness kills

第一に周りとの繫がりは 健康に本当に良いという事 孤独は命取りで

And we know that you can be lonely in a crowd and you can be lonely in a marriage, so the second big lesson that we learned is that it's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship, but it's the quality of your close relationships that matters.

友人の数だけが ものをいうのではなく 生涯を共にする相手の 有無でもないのです 重要なのは 身近な人達との関係の質なのです

And the third big lesson that we learned about relationships and our health is that good relationships don't just protect our bodies, they protect our brains.

人間関係と健康に関して 分かった３つ目の大きな事は 良い関係は身体の健康だけでなく 脳をも守ってくれるという事です

So this message, that good, close relationships are good for our health and well-being, this is wisdom that's as old as the hills

この教え— 親密で良い関係は 包括的に 私たちに益となっているという教えは

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."

最後にマーク・トウェインの言葉を 引用して終わります 一世紀以上むかし 彼は人生を振り返り こう書きました 「かくも短い人生に 諍い 謝罪し 傷心し 責任を追及している時間などない 愛し合う為の時間しかない それが例え一瞬にすぎなくとも」

Robert Waldinger

https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness/transcript