Love, Joy and Madness: Project Happiness: A White Afrikaner and his Black African friend search and find happiness at unexpected places

Dr. Johannes Jansen studied happiness for the past years. In his quest to find this, he had a Sesotho partner who was fighting for her own survival every day. Although many of the situations actually happened the story is not exactly the truth, but it could just as well have been. This book is in essence a love story between the two unlikely friends, namely a white Afrikaner man and a Sesotho speaking Black African lady. Working together on project happiness they have experienced many joys and learned from each other the secrets of love and joy. They visited places like Soweto, soccer fields and shopping malls together where they learned more from each other and their cultures. They found many interesting links to happiness in interviewing friends, observing children playing soccer. The most important link they found was the link in the social paradigm. The future is bright for those who work on their happiness today. The two friends, Paul and Thembi shared their lessons learned from a journey they undertook in searching for happiness. More importantly their thoughts, emotional experiences and personal struggles were described to give the reader self-help strategies too achieve joy and happiness. Practical suggestion like playing, mind-power strategies and positive thinking were tested with successes. It describe methods to deal with abnormal taught patterns the power of the subconscious mind is explored in it influence on personal happiness. Like all of us, both Paul and Thembi have their own craziness within themselves that they would have to fight every day. All human beings experience Love, happiness and madness, in this book people can see how to cope with he different states of the mind.