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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Who has it?
I mean true happiness.
A job you enjoy and look forward to each day.
Someone that makes you smile stupidly.
Friends and family.
Do you want it all? Do you need it all? |
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I have a decent job, that I like.
I have a lovely house, that I will have to sell eventually.
I have a daughter, she melts my heart.
I'm happy. I don't need more.
I would like someone, to make them happy, but I know that this doesn't define my life |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sounds a bit boring. No one can have happiness all the time
I'll settle for say 60% of the time. "
Thats not asking too much I don't think. What are you now? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Sounds a bit boring. No one can have happiness all the time
I'll settle for say 60% of the time.
Thats not asking too much I don't think. What are you now?"
About 20%. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’m lonely and miserable. I can’t remember the last time I smiled to be honest.
The old advert used to say that “happiness is a cigar called hamlet” so maybe I just need one of those |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's taken me a long time to get here but yes I am happy with all of those aspects of my life and I appreciate them.
OP, our paths haven't crossed often on the forums and therefore I may well be missing some kind of knowledge or back story but I do wish you happiness in your life.
NBVN x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sounds a bit boring. No one can have happiness all the time"
No? I’d at least like to try it.
Op. I find happiness in other people if I don’t feel it. Watching my kids especially does it. Watching others smile also makes me feel that life and the world isn’t that bad.  I then can look for what makes me smile.
Job? Nope. Family are useless (except my kids) someone special? Hahaha.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have everything I need, a fulfilling job and great friends. That's enough to make me happy and for anyone that's not, I'm always available for a chat x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Had it
Lost it
Was broken by it
Now im stubborn enough il never allow it again only 1 person will ever have the power to make me be open enough myself enough to be truly happy until then my ceiling is to be content |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes, I am happy.
There's bits in my life I would change but they're not making me unhappy.
Yuval Noah Harari presents some interesting theories on happiness in his book Sapiens. If true, I'm greatful to be one of those lucky people with a relatively high happiness set point.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Happiness is fleeting, it comes and goes. Just like any other feeling. Its a sliding scale...to be happy all the time is unrealistic, that's what I think anyway.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I dont have alot but im happy with what i have and try not to be unhappy with what i think i need or want. Been through so much hurt, pain and dissapointment that i look at what i have and am happy with what i have and i have achieved. if i didnt have my two boys i wouldnt be here, but now i try look forward to the little things and special times... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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True happiness is all relative dependent on what makes you happy. I’ve found that life is no fairytale so don’t get too up or too down. That’s survival but also happiness |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Life beats us down, no one can be happy all the time. What we can be is content with who we are and what we have got. Contentness is happiness in my eyes.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’ve found through life, happiness can mean different things.
From work to a partner to good health.
The conclusion I came to was being grateful for what you have and enjoying it in that moment.
We spend our lives constantly chasing things which we think are going to make us happy but for them to be short lived and then back on the cycle again.
Now I have a nice life, a job that I can walk away from a mind think I’ve done soon good today and a lover who makes me happy and I appreciate.
Contentment is achieved through being grateful! Rather looking at those in front of you, look at those behind you  |
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By *arco_pMan
over a year ago
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"Who has it?
I mean true happiness.
A job you enjoy and look forward to each day.
Someone that makes you smile stupidly.
Friends and family.
every person is different, me myself i take each day as if it was my last as you never know whats going to happen, work is just there to earn money to sort off pay bills in my view
Do you want it all? Do you need it all?"
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I'm skeptical of this idea that we should always be happy and happiness is a badge of success. That unhappiness is likewise failure. Its ok not to be happy all the time. We are humans and we live in the real world, not the world of Disney.
My life is full of stress and things that make me unhappy. Having said that I live a good life and I am surrounded by people who love me. I have a good secure job, very well paid and although I'm not mad for going to work it's not too bad. So although I am not happy all the time in general I am happy where it counts. Mainly though the love and people I have in my life. And to be fair that is a happiness of my own creation of how I live my life and the love I give. Some of the people who love me are family, some freinds and a lot of them are family not through blood who chose to love me and make me their family.
I can't always be happy all the time, life is tough and dark sometimes. And I imbrace that, it part of life and growing as a person. But love brings me happiness and what I truly value. I have it in abundance so I will always be ok whatever the future brings. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think is in the eye of the beholder.
One person's happiness is another's misery.
Maybe content is a word we are more likely to obtain. We are happy and content in our life together. We have good jobs, a lovely home, no debt, our health, a wonderful daughter etc, but we have both recently lost our mums, so it's all with a tinge of sadness at the moment.
We don't want for anything or envy others, so content is a good word.
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I have many things in my life that make me unhappy and a handful that dont.
But i choose to be happy. To me, happiness is a state of mind and right now, my mind is one of the few things i can have total control over. So i choose for that place to be happy
A simple smile on your face, recipricated by a complete stranger can do wonders. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort and living a life of purpose. So yes, I am truly happy, knowing I don't need other people or material things. Have family and friends, eat healthy and get plenty exercise milking big dicks regularly.  |
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I am happy. Learning not to let others unhappiness overimpact on me is a long journey, but I am getting better at distancing myself and realising that not everyone wants to be fixed was positive enlightenment |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I truly believe that no one in the world has happiness 100% of the time. I think it’s a feeling that comes and goes for different reasons, for every individual.
I don’t mean that in a negative way at all. Just realistic.
Personally, I have days, weeks, months of absolute happiness and feeling completely content, but that can change in a matter of seconds depending on different triggers that change peoples moods.
I’d say I have a lot to be appreciative of, a good feeling of being content and happy around 80% of my life… but there are always those down times. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I try to find happiness daily in the small things. I nearly always manage that. But somewhat unhappy with the bigger picture at present. My friends and family are perfect though - absolutely wonderful.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Who has it?
I mean true happiness.
A job you enjoy and look forward to each day.
Someone that makes you smile stupidly.
Friends and family.
Do you want it all? Do you need it all?"
My 21 & 17 year olds being happy makes me happy.
Being with someone who is daft and funny, but also someone who has drive and ambition.
Doing nice things in nice places with nice people too |
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