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29 March 2024

'Happiest Man in the World', Lankan's title

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A Sri Lankan security guard in Maggona is being voted the 'Happiest Man in the World' in a YouTube video contest.
Welipenne Vithanage  Sugathapala (60) won over 295,000 YouTube likes, and the uploader of the video says that the jovial security guard is a tourist attraction for Sri Lanka.

Sugathpala’s cheerful temperament has endeared hundreds of thousands of viewers. In the video, a jovial Sugathapala, in a comically choreographic fashion, flags down passing vehicles and invites passers-by to the New Monis bakery, Maggona (in the South) where he is employed as a security guard.

“Always, Smiles… That is how I spend my time,” he says in the video. “It is like an exercise. It cleans up my blood. I make our customers happy and that makes me happy,” he adds.

He cheerfully invites the passing public to his eatery and gives parking directions for the drivers through comically choreographic instructions.

Sugathapala, who joined the New Monis Hotel eight years ago, is a father of three children. His wife, an equally a self-contended woman, and Sugathapala lives in Duwamulla Watta, Karadagoda, Beruwala.
“We are very poor. We have a lot of financial problems, but we are not deterred by them and we lead our lives with full of joy,” Sugathapala said.

“Though I have financial problems, I spend my time happily, both at home and at the work place,” he adds, with a huge grin across his face. He says he strives to make customers happy, which would in turn benefit his employer. “I never cry. Whatever problems we are faced with, I am a happy person,” he said.
There are many reasons to be sad, but there is no point living in desperation, Sugathapala, whose parents and siblings are not longer living, opines.

“I live because I am leading a happy life,” he says.

Referring to his YouTube glory, Sugathapala says a foreigner who visited his eatery had videoed him sometime back. The video has later been uploaded on YouTube.