I Learned the Hard Way What Hygge Is Really About — How To Hygge

Is this how you hygge in real life?

(Image credit: Hayley Kessner)

I moved to Denmark with one real goal in mind: to find out what hygge really means. Two weeks in, I discovered I didn’t have the hip som hap spirit necessary for hygge — at least that’s what my boss, Vibe, said when she let me go.

What is hip som hap spirit? I don’t know anything about it, other than the fact that I apparently don’t have it. Still, I wasn’t deterred! Or rather, I had already moved all my stuff in pursuit of hygge, so dammit I wasn’t going to let Vibe (pronounced Vee-ba) have the final word.

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