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Originally posted by Clovis Taking a nice shit.

Fuck, I swear I was going to post the same fucking thing.



Edit: Blatant overuse of the word fuck.

Fuck.

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What is happiness?

Negative pain i.e. it's the absence of pain, sorrow or angst of any sort.

What would trully make you appreciate life, every morning you woke up and every night you went to sleep?

Being focused in the one thing that would make everything else look frivolous. That could be an artistic activity, an intellectual activity or even a romantic "quest". It's doing your utmost that counts.

Without this passion that brings you into your own life, living seems rather pointless...

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Originally posted by Lira What is happiness? Negative pain i.e. it's the absence of pain, sorrow or angst of any sort. What would trully make you appreciate life, every morning you woke up and every night you went to sleep? Being focused in the one thing that would make everything else look frivolous. That could be an artistic activity, an intellectual activity or even a romantic "quest". It's doing your utmost that counts. Without this passion that brings you into your own life, living seems rather pointless...

Your posts always make me feel dumber than I already am

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Originally posted by jupiterone Your posts always make me feel dumber than I already am

Hey, you're not dumb!

(Besides, what I wrote isn't really special or anything... it's pretty much a personal take on what a bunch of Buddhists and Existentialists have said in the past)

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self-expression/communication, freedom/risktaking/letting go, having ability, creative impulse/eureka, affirmation of importance to others/respect/esteem, realization of imagination, sensual beauty (ie beauty experienced through the senses)

happiness for me consists of beautiful little moments of the above. most of the time i am not happy but deeply concerned about something (at least sober)



edit: like right now it's 5:18 am and i have to finish 2 drawings for a review at 9:00 am and i've barely touched the first.



deeply concerned about not having work to show for myself and getting behind with work.

looking forward to maybe accidentally sleeping through the review (freedom/risktaking/letting go), or maybe having a eureka moment and working quickly all night on creative impulse and forgetting about how tired i am. etc

Can anyone here claim to be happy? I know many of us bitch and moan about shit: "oh, I got midterms", "damn, I didn't get the job", "snap, my gurl just banged my best friend", etc. However, when you consider most of the ppl living on this planet would consider happiness as having a roof over their heads, loved ones safe, and perhaps some basic necessities like food, water, medication... it puts things in perspective.

I spoke with some ppl who went through some serious shit in their life like WW II, Stalin's regime, etc. Most of them laughed at our problems. My grandmother went through blokade in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and told me about how ppl would resort to cannibalism, eating dogs, cats, anything that they could chew just to survive. And then she'd add - "you think you got problems". She gave birth to my Mother only 3 months before WWII started and lived in Minsk - city that was one of the first cities to get bombed by nazis.

She fled the city, carrying only my mom and some blankets, leaving everything behind. That's some hardcore shit. She then lost her husband in the war. Meanwhile, most of my father's family perished in Babiy Yar - mass grave in Kiev, where nazis tortured, shot, and burried alive thousands of jews in less than few days.

Close friend of mine lost his older brother in Afganistan, when their base was raided. Lucky ones were executed by shot to the head or to the heart. The unlucky ones were tied to horses and dragged to shreds or had their guts cut out and tied around their necks. Some were decapitated, some were quartered. About 30 18 - 23 year old soldiers were bruttally killed, not having fired a single shot, as they were deployed only 1 week before they were murdered, sent to fight a war they had no business fighting.

Just thinking back to some of the things that people went through, I realize that many of us (myself included) often take things for granted and bitch and moan about daily crap. Meanwhile, in a grand scheme of things - it's all just meager shit.

///just one of those nights. sorry if i bummed anyone out.

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Good post. Yes I consider myself happy. Not overjoyed, but happy.

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when i am peaking on E.

Music, good vibes, good people, good karma, love and life, and the pursuit of kickass drugs.

Yes, totally happy, 99% of the time.

Completely stress-free as well.

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Originally posted by aNYthing Can anyone here claim to be happy? I know many of us bitch and moan about shit: "oh, I got midterms", "damn, I didn't get the job", "snap, my gurl just banged my best friend", etc. However, when you consider most of the ppl living on this planet would consider happiness as having a roof over their heads, loved ones safe, and perhaps some basic necessities like food, water, medication... it puts things in perspective. I spoke with some ppl who went through some serious shit in their life like WW II, Stalin's regime, etc. Most of them laughed at our problems. My grandmother went through blokade in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and told me about how ppl would resort to cannibalism, eating dogs, cats, anything that they could chew just to survive. And then she'd add - "you think you got problems". She gave birth to my Mother only 3 months before WWII started and lived in Minsk - city that was one of the first cities to get bombed by nazis. She fled the city, carrying only my mom and some blankets, leaving everything behind. That's some hardcore shit. She then lost her husband in the war. Meanwhile, most of my father's family perished in Babiy Yar - mass grave in Kiev, where nazis tortured, shot, and burried alive thousands of jews in less than few days. Close friend of mine lost his older brother in Afganistan, when their base was raided. Lucky ones were executed by shot to the head or to the heart. The unlucky ones were tied to horses and dragged to shreds or had their guts cut out and tied around their necks. Some were decapitated, some were quartered. About 30 18 - 23 year old soldiers were bruttally killed, not having fired a single shot, as they were deployed only 1 week before they were murdered, sent to fight a war they had no business fighting. Just thinking back to some of the things that people went through, I realize that many of us (myself included) often take things for granted and bitch and moan about daily crap. Meanwhile, in a grand scheme of things - it's all just meager shit. ///just one of those nights. sorry if i bummed anyone out.

Really puts things into perspective.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN attention from sunsnail, coz he has money, is admired and has lots of stuff.

Scarily accurate