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Originally posted by jennypie Happiness is being just about all moved into my new apartment and having a huge bottle of red wine to drink!! I love my new bedroom!!!!

Congrats! Pics! You should really do a 'before and after' type thing. It'll spin you out in a couple of years time.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Congrats! Pics! You should really do a 'before and after' type thing. It'll spin you out in a couple of years time.

Heheh, once I have all my curtains up and all the little things done, I'll take some pics.

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Originally posted by aNYthing What do you think is happiness?

The problem with 'happiness' is outside influences telling the majority of people what they need to be happy in life, which many go out there and try too or manage to attain and then once they're at that point in life, don't quite know what to do from there because they've never actually thought for themselves what they should realistically look too for a sense of well being.
Instead, they get a small reward like a gambler winning a bet when they materialistically attain those small goals in life.
Be it any kind of possession or achievement.
Then they move on looking for that next rush.

They never look inward.
They never question themselves
Barely any ever manage to cope with the exact opposite of happiness which is just as instrumental to leading a balanced, functional life and that is the process of dealing with failure and misery.
After all, you cannot have a measure of happiness and contentment without a yardstick of the opposite.

You cannot find happiness in unrealistic goals in a sense of that if you had everything you thought you needed, you'll simply have a feeling of, well... what now?

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Originally posted by jennypie Heheh, once I have all my curtains up and all the little things done, I'll take some pics.

Bah! You're missing the point of the before and after!! You gotta take pics while your place is EMPTY and 'ghetto' before you make it look all cool.

I have pics of my place that really spin me out when I look at them now

It's pretty cool

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Originally posted by aNYthing 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.

You don't even have to look as far back into the past. Look at the present... people in countries dying of famine, AIDS, oppression, human trafficking, corrupt goverments, and the list goes on.

Here's some further perspective...

Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.

In 2006, 4.3 million people become infected with HIV and 2.9 million people died of AIDS

In 2004, almost 1 billion people lived below the international poverty line, earning less than $1 per day.

(source)

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Also something to ponder...

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest,torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the US and Canada.

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

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COR version: You have MANY things to be happy about

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happiness = something to be enthusiastic about

to me happiness basically means, being able to wake up everyday in a nice bed, with a roof over my head, then being able to go downstairs take some food out of the fridge, being able to get in my car go down to school to get an education,go to work and make money and at the end of the day come back home, where you have your friends and family that love you.

edit: forgot to throw in flying into the whole mix.

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Originally posted by aNYthing Which leaves a lot unsaid for depression. Some folks are simply unable to achieve the aforementioned "internal satisfaction", even after doing something that may otherwise feel great to ballanced individuals. just a thought.

Well, "internal satisfaction" was just a phrase I used to elicit the idea of the person doing something of value to themselves, rather than being value to other "balanced individuals."

Anyway, that being said, yeah depression isn't just psychological, it's oftentimes associated with some type of patho-physiology.. and I suppose in that sense their happiness is more difficult to obtain.

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Originally posted by eRRaTiK COR version: You have MANY things to be happy about

Indeed, and that kind of thought does remind me of how lucky I am. However, I should add, happiness isn't external, as you can deduce from suicide rates around the world:



Your average German, for example, should live under better conditions than the most Syrians or Iranians. Yet, a higher rate of Germans decide to take their own lives (which is an act often linked to not being happy). This is a somewhat hasty analysis, and there's a lot more to be said (suicide rates seem to be higher in communist countries and lower in religious countries), but it shows how this matter is a lot more complex than just being spared of having a "tragic" life, unfortunately

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