| Personal Happiness.
Posted: 8/13/2009 10:23:54 AM | Buggar it, i thought this was a thread about wanking, oh well ... when i was a lad, i was a bit of a biker, and i always wanted to go to the Sturgis rally, and last week i did go, awesome bikes, awesome birds, and i have the scars to prove it  i did a road trip around the badlands, little big horn, mnt rushmore, i even got a written warning for a speeding ticket, but i was happy, then yesterday i had to get the plane back to this dump  | |
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Posted: 8/13/2009 10:26:40 AM | hapiness is seeing my children succeed at what they want to do , seeing them happy
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Posted: 8/13/2009 11:21:44 AM | Im happiest when im out in the wilds, amongst nature maybe walking in the woods or along a coastal path really feeling im connecting with the Earth, feeling the elements around me and enjoying the peace.
Im happy when im with positive thinking people. Shallow, miserable, argumentative types just bring me down and i try to avoid them. I feel very empathic and can pick up on other peoples energies too easily.
As a nation i dont see people happier, in fact people seem to be more wanting than ever before, they just want all the time, not need but want. Their want makes them greedy and the greed tends to make them unhappy as they get into debt, feel failiures, get put under pressure with work issues to earn more money to feed their greed. People seem more stressed than ever before, less trusting of each other and the cases of depression in all age groups are rising all the time. People seem more driven by materialism than ever before.
Materialistic items could never make me happy. Seeing so much materialism in the world makes me sad, seeing so much damage to our environment makes me sad, i wish people would respect the planet we call home more, chill a little and take time to see such beauty that is naturaly available and get pleasure from it as i do. Reading replies here it seems so many take their personal happiness from material things, having enough money and from other people including their children or relationships. What about you people? What about YOUR happiness, not your childrens or your relationships, look at yourselves.
Remember happy parents make good parents, unhappy ones dont. Happy relationships are better than no relationships. Think about yourselves but on a more spiritual basis, a more natural Earth bassed way, then include others.
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Posted: 8/13/2009 11:36:55 AM | Happiest in a car tearing through the forests, head down over the notes telling the driver to put his foot down and stop being a girl ...
.. either that or when I 'm on the job ;)
I dont think that we are as happy today as people generally in our parents day . Although times were harder then, none of the gadgets and gizmos that we now have available, life in the sixties and seventies was a lot simpler and the pressure to have the latest this or the latest that was just not there . Expectations are higher now, peopple are so judgemental of success by material things, the pressure is on. All the pressure our parents had was putting food on the table , nothing in comparison, is it ?! | |
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Posted: 10/1/2009 5:37:04 AM | I know this may seem like a very cynical point of view but can someone honestly with their hand on their heart and conscience riding high on their shoulders actually admit to being truly happy or content?
Or is the phrase " true happiness " created by human beings to give their lives meaning, direction and focus but regardless of how hard we try, and how much we reach it still seems like an unobtainable dream?
I ask this question purely out of curiousity due to the amount of people I know and see who have fallen into the *comfort zone*. | |
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Posted: 10/1/2009 5:47:54 AM | I think that is a good question crucified.
Personally i'd say that i am very happy and content now, my life compared to what it was a few years ago is fantastic, so i would on impulse say yes i am very happy and content, but when i look at the big picture i know that i could be ' happier'.
As humans we all strive for more than what we have, we do tend to fall into that 'comfort zone' occasionally but it's natural to have times when we want more than we have at present. | |
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Posted: 10/1/2009 7:24:42 AM | I was sat with my feet in the lake,
in the heart of the lake district,
around 6 o clock in the morning,
sun shining on my back,
tent just a few feet away,
some bacon and apple and pork sausages on the BBQ,
bed hair and wearing nothing but a big t shirt.
I was very very happy that day.
Im at my calmest and at my most content when Im au natural and in the heart of some beautiful countryside.
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| Personal Happiness.
Posted: 10/1/2009 8:02:09 AM | | Happiness comes in fits and snatches, I think. One's general position may be of comfort and contentment (and there is absolutely nothing wrong in that), with true happiness being akin to the sun coming out from behind the clouds. | |
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Posted: 10/1/2009 2:16:17 PM | would I get slaughtered if i said: people walking into lamp-posts?  | |
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| Personal Happiness.
Posted: 10/1/2009 4:17:05 PM | | For me........personal happiness is.............waking up in the morning with a smile in your face, knowing that everything is good in your life at that particular moment, and that my children are feeling the exact same way. | |
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Posted: 10/1/2009 4:31:35 PM | Isuppose I'm just a simple guy...as long as me and the boys have a roof over our heads,food in our belly's and I'm on top of things financially then I'm pretty much a happy bunny,as they say there's always someone worse of than you so why worry ...be happy. | |
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Posted: 10/2/2009 11:18:39 AM |
How do you define yours?
I can't, I just know when I am as the feeling is divine ..
When are you at your happiest?
When I am loaded...
Who or what makes you happy and why?
Anything, everything, nothing ..
Do you think as a nation we are happier now or less happy than our parents were?
Less, we want more of everything, we are a dissatisfied/unsettled/throw away nation ..
Depression in teens is on the increase why do you think that is?
Because they want everything now, and are rarely gratefull when they do get it .. | |
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Posted: 10/2/2009 11:23:08 AM | | happiest when I have weekends away hiking in the lakes with friends just laughing and talking. Also love seeing my kids excel especially my youngest who sings in the choir. Quite happy with my life at the moment, dont need a man but it might be nice to want one. | |
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Posted: 10/2/2009 12:19:19 PM | I'm just starting to realise the value of all the things I have around me where as before they were just hard work that never seemed to end
Now as if by magic ( sleeping 5 hours a night and working 15 hours a day) there are wonderful stable successful happy children who grew into great adults and a wonderful grandaughter.
Happiness for me is when my son puts on a CD of 2PAC in the car and when 'dear mama' comes on he catches my eye in the rear view mirror. | |
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Posted: 10/2/2009 12:53:33 PM | | Personal happiness to me is when your son tells you he wants to spend his 19th birthday with you! He must be skint.......bless him! | |
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Posted: 10/2/2009 1:01:21 PM | I'll have ten times more money in my bank on Tuesday than I have today. That will be 100 quid then, no am joking, been waiting for this for a couple of months now and it's going to be very welcome indeed.
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Posted: 10/2/2009 1:36:28 PM | | I'm most happy when I'm socialising with other people. Sometimes (like tonight) I can be a little pissed off with work commitments. | |
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Posted: 10/2/2009 1:41:37 PM | what-a-knob-head..........take note work ,life balance  | |
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Posted: 10/2/2009 1:56:51 PM | I am definitely happier than my parents - my father rarely smiled. It wasn't the thing to do. I remember walking through a factory floor as an office junior with a beaming smile and being asked 'What have you got to smile about?' - grumbles and complaints were more appropriate.
I am blissfully happy when surrounded by the people I love as we don't get together so often these days. I am also happy on a sunny day in the garden. For some reason spotting a rainbow after a heavy shower still excites me too.
As for teens - I think teenage boys have always been prone to depression. It is a dangerous time with all the pressures. | |
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Posted: 10/2/2009 2:12:22 PM | I remember being really content around 4 years ago. When I think back on that time it was all sunshine and blue skies. It didnt last long but I remember it and Im going to have it again one day. I dont think we were meant to be happy all the time or how would we recognise and appreciate it if it was a permanent state?
It seems to me life is a test, we have really tough times thrown at us and then out of nowhere come truly wonderful moments. Sometimes they last for a while and some are fleeting but I treasure mine. | |
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Posted: 10/3/2009 5:35:01 AM |
what-a-knob-head..........take note work ,life balance
Point taken, I've penciled you in for a dirty weekend away.  | |
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Posted: 10/3/2009 5:41:23 AM |
I dont think we were meant to be happy all the time or how would we recognise and appreciate it if it was a permanent state?
Excellent point ..
If it was a permanent state would that not be a euphoric utopia, which many have spent a life time looking for, and never found ..
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Posted: 10/3/2009 5:46:00 AM |
If it was a permanent state would that not be a euphoric utopia, which many have spent a life time looking for, and never found?
No.....I think the state you've alluded to is also what's known as being in denial. Oh, to be an eternal optimist!! | |
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Posted: 10/3/2009 5:56:35 AM |
No.....I think the state you've alluded to is also what's known as being in denial. Oh, to be an eternal optimist!!
Denial ! of what exactly ???
Euphoric ...A feeling of great happiness or well-being..
Utopia is a name for an ideal community or society, which would mean an idyllic state..
Add the two, and my implication of the euphoric utopia, re the post I was addressing should be apparent ...
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Posted: 10/3/2009 6:21:47 AM | Denial ! of what exactly ???
Euphoric ...A feeling of great happiness or well-being..
Utopia is a name for an ideal community or society, which would mean an idyllic state
I think you misunderstood what I meant. I understood your point. My interpretation of someone who is in a constant idyllic Utopian state, as being someone who is in denial, means I think they are out of touch with reality.......permanently stoned perhaps? How about eternal optimists? Perhaps they too are in Utopia. The phrase, "ignorance is bliss" comes to mind. That is my interpretation of course and my opinion. I have a large chunk of optimism as without it I wouldn't be able to have hope for the future. However, I'm a realist and I don't tend to look at life through rose tinted glasses, unless I'm drunk or in love....or having an orgasm!
Imo personal happiness is being able to feel grateful for all that life brings....good and bad. I have phases where I feel incredibly lucky and grateful......but then I let other shite get in the way! I do treasure the good moments and hold on them. I think people are more likely to find their "euphoric utopia" when they stop searching for it outside themselves. I guess that's why many turn to religions/philosophies/meditation/yoga, etc. that are supposed to help you find your way to that idyllic state too......not for me though. | |
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