Poliana | Eleanor Porter

There is something that can make you happy if you search for it, this is the essence of the game of happiness and the doctrine of Pollyanna, the novel published in 1913, and it succeeded with tremendous success that made Eleanor Porter follow it with a second part in 1915. In fact, the game of happiness and its heroine inspired other writers to publish a series known as "The Book of Happiness." A statue of Pollyanna was made in front of the public library in Littleton, New Hampshire. Since 1921, Pollyanna has entered a number of famous dictionaries such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Collins to become a description used for a person overly optimistic and happy. Happiness has remained a pressing demand for humans throughout ages, and attempts to study and understand it have led to theories, linking it sometimes with pleasure and other times with charity. Specialized ministries were established for it— in some countries— and all this took various forms of "the pursuit of happiness." But Pollyanna did not need all that; she learned at an early age to find her happiness in the smallest and simplest things, and she persisted in finding something that makes her happy even in the most difficult and impactful situations. Pollyanna did not deny the existence of what causes pain and distress in life, but what harm is there if we face that with a bit of humor? The path to happiness begins with "Pollyanna."