This is the first time that I have heard these words.

“You can´t be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.”

Allow me to elaborate about what I understand from this quote. River is not stagnant, it moves, it ebbs and flows and it has a beginning and its has an end. It represents life, in fact it won't be incorrect if I say that a river represents life.

To be on it means that you are at the center of that life. Not just a part of it but you are actually either going with the current or against it. Either way you are now part of something so much bigger than yourself that it would be easy to miss it. Just like it is easy to forget the sky because its so vast that it surrounds you.

Once a person realizes this, I think it can change their whole perspective and allow them to appreciate this life. Which perhaps might bring happiness to us. I think those who have been in the middle of a river or traveled on it can relate with this.