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Originally posted by Tangil happiness = something to be enthusiastic about

quite precise from my p.o.v.

happiness is freedom in my p.o.v...

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Eat. Sleep. Sex. Trance.

Happiest person I ever met was living on a beach, had nothing (no passport, money etc) and was hunting ducks for food with a bow and arrow he made himself.
I think his idea of happiness was being alive and having freedom.
Great person.

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Originally posted by Lira happiness isn't external

agreed 100%.

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but it shows how this matter is a lot more complex than just being spared of having a "tragic" life, unfortunately

It's all about individual perception. What's "tragic" to you may not necessarily be tragic to me, and vice versa.

Being a slave to a job in the 21st century to me is pretty tragic.

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I will use a pictar.

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Originally posted by aNYthing Many tie happiness to money, power, attention of opposite sex, admiration, or materialistic things. Those that attain that still seem unhappy. I mean why would you have so many celebrities implode or so many ppl who are thrown in a life-changing situations, most of us would consider a "dream come true", they collapse under sheer enormity of such a change. What do you think is happiness? What would trully make you appreciate life, every morning you woke up and every night you went to sleep? Just curious...

People aren't happy because they keep waiting for something to make them appreciate life. It doesn't work that way.

Furthermore, people aren't happy because they think that they ought to be happy all the time. Happiness and unhappiness are experienced in relative terms - if we weren't happy sometimes and unhappy at other times, then we wouldn't have the frame of reference to experience happiness or unhappiness at all. When people have the expectation that they ought to always be happy, then their necessary unhappiness becomes self-perpetuating.

to many i might be miserable. but to me, i live in relative poverty (in the US), but have access to most of the best things in life, and have experienced things 90% of the world could only hope to.

if things get better, i will appreciate it|

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Well, It's a hard question, since I have been thinking a lot about it lately. I have been on an emotional roller-coaster trying to understand why can't I be happpy?

I pretty much achieved all of the goals that I had set for myself, since I was a child - moving to North America, getting good education, getting a dream job, having $, friends, party, whatever, but I seem to be more unhappy now that I have these things than when I didn't...

The way people are is that we just don't appreciate what we have. We keep waiting and working hard for something, but once we have it - it no longer makes us happy. At least, this is the case for me. So, I agree with the statement that materialistic things do matter, but they don't define our happiness. And, even the greatest achievement can't keep you happy forever. It's an amazing feeling of instant gratification, but it goes away very fast, unfortunately ;-(

So, I would say that happiness (for me) is being able to enjoy waking up every single day in the morning and living it to the fullest. It's important to have goals and work towards them, but the present is what really matters. I would love to learn to enjoy the present time rather than concentrating on the future only. To enjoy present means being surrounded by things and people that you love and feel loved. Not waiting for the day to end so you can go to bed and re-live the exact same day tomorrow. Happiness is learning how to make every day different, interesting, spontaneous, and most importantly - never the same. Happiness is the escape from the daily routine ;-)

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Originally posted by aNYthing What do you think is happiness? What would trully make you appreciate life, every morning you woke up and every night you went to sleep?

Happiness is a cognative description of emotion based understanding.

As for me and what would make me truly happy, well having the abilities to create a universe by mere conscious thought alone does come to mind, but this is way to idealistic.

What makes me happy is the ability of consciously being aware of the universe around me, and how in the grand scheme of things I was and will be apart of the whole. That in and of itself brings a smile to my face.

Each day I wake up, I have the ability to look out at the sunrise this alone brings me great peace and happiness. Infact I find myself on the roof in aww of such events from time to time.

In short though I don't think i'd be this way if I did not meditate. The meditation of just being greatful for being here on earth. This alone gave rise to how forunate I am to consciously be aware of things.

So in some sense what brings me happiness is to be greatful for just being aware and conscious. For if I was never aware or conscious i'd probably never know what happiness was or could of been.

MONEY,SEX,DRUGS,TRANCE.

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psychologist would say health, wealth, and love are the 3 prime motivators for happiness but...


i have no clue what makes me happy but i wish i could figure it out.





get this, apparently i dont like one night stands. i dont feel like a stud because i know i am one. i dont need ho's licking my junk like an envelope to know that... that just makes me feel easy lol.

/sensitive rant

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