after reading some news posted by the very informed Pussnboots I thought I'd ask my fellow litneters just how they are.
so- "Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not at all happy?"
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after reading some news posted by the very informed Pussnboots I thought I'd ask my fellow litneters just how they are.
so- "Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not at all happy?"
I'll have to give it a little thought. It's certainly either of the top two.
if there were something more than very happy I would have chosen it, but these were the options listed in PnB's news post so I just went with that. I really am a very happy girl. Even when I'm having a blue day I'm very satisfied with my life. I do look forward to graduating though.
Ok, I've thought enough. I'm very happy. :) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by motherhubbard
I chose "rather happy" - I am very happy, but there are some overarching family issues that cloud my otherwise peaceful existence. If I was better able to deal with them, or if they could resolve themselves, then I'd more fully be able to choose "very happy"
I don't know how happy I am. Either not very or not at all. I feel kinda happy right now. Maybe since I do occasionally feel ok, that would put me in the not very category. Yep, that's what I'm going with.
Not sure. My mood changes. Right now i'd answer not at all, but then again it's morning and here i am back in my office :(
Not very happy. :(
I'm 25 and still working towards an eventual doctorate's. This means, however, that I don't have the funds to travel and visit places of interest at a whim. Without my books and my constant craving to acquire new information, I would be downright depressed.
Happy enough to be classified a living entity, I guess...
And for one thing, I'm HUNGRY (like the wolf) ;)
David Cook still rocks. :) All right. Now I'm a great deal happier :p Though emo still. (As usual.:lol:)
Yeah, a lot of things are still missing in my life. And I'm losing them faster than I'm getting the ones that I want. :( Still, I am happy with what I've got and I thank God each day for making me the person I am--not exactly perfect, yet somehow lucky, especially because I am studying in a science high school, and not many people get to have that sort of opportunity. :D
I voted for very happy :)
Very happy!! :) In general anyhow. Of course I have my downs.... But even still I'm almost always smiling through the tears.
I laugh waaaaayyyyy too much to not be happy :p
If you asked me this before, I would choose not very happy. But now I can be very happy even in the unhappiest moments, this can be just for a few moments but I love this life and all I have although there are lots of problems. Even life is beautiful with these problems. It is my choise to live happily or not. After many years I choose to live happily ... no one is going to make me happy it is me just me! And now I feel fantastic.
In ten minutes you decided you are very happy :D when I read your post I taught you will post a few days later. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Geez... I'm in such a minority. I'm "not very happy" ... but I mean it's hard to explain. I alternate between depressed and normal and happy...
I think as I get older I'll be happier. Right now I'm 19 and experiencing those growing up times of turmoil. xD
"Not very happy". Meh . . . I'm fine most of the time, don't feel happy, don't feel unhappy.
I think so as you grow older you feel better ... when I was at your age I sometimes felt like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brigitte
I voted for rather happy, but I think content would probably be a better way of putting it. There are some things missing in my life ( I would like a serious, stable relationship - think I am finally at a stage now where I could deal with it, unfortunately the face kinda destroys most chance of that occuring).
Some stuff I havent mentioned previously: The job I originally moved out here to do fell through. I am now in the crazy world of retail management. Receiving Manager of a well known store in this country. I am in fact just back home an hour ago after starting at 7 this morning. It is these circumstances that got me so annoyed when Sweets posted about rather being homeless than work a menial service industry job like flipping burgers. Life for me is fine though, I make enough money to live, I dont bring my work home with me, I get the weekends to myself, time to read at the weekend & enjoy myself etc. Just gotta sort out the relationship bit & all will be perfect.
It does not surprise me that the younger people are in the two middle catagories. The transition to adulthood is rather difficult, stressful, and emotional.
Now I feel I am so old :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
I'm envious of all you "very happy" people out there! :p
I, for one, like the face Kilted. You have a handsome happy face! But maybe crawling through sewers should be reconsidered :pQuote:
Originally Posted by kilted exile
I think an important part of being happy is that you work hard at it. There are no ready made recipes or formulas for being happy for any of us. In the past, while growing up :D, I used to expect other people/things determine my happiness status... Parents, friends, teachers, bosses, things I could(not) afford/have determined how (un)happy I was. Whereas now, I know that I am the only one who is responsible for my own (un)happiness... And as long as one expects others make him/her happy, happiness will be hard to come by.
I have learnt that I would rather be in charge of my own life than let others have a say on how I should feel about myself and my life.
Kilted> If having a serious, stable relationship was based on "facial bauty", I am sure most of us would be out in the open! ;) I would like to believe that there is a Shrek or Fiona for each and every one of us out there (I should know! Even I have found one despite being a "witch with hair of snakes and moles on the nose"! ;))
I agree with Scher. I once read somewhere that "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times". Like 'greatness', happiness can be something you are born into,achieve and have thrust upon you. I think most people experience all three to some degree over the course of their lives.
Luckily, I have recently,for lack of any word that could completely capture how I have somehow come into such glorious happiness, 'discovered' an exceptional source of happiness that floods every other aspect of my life with joy. I therefore must complain of there being no "Extremely Happy" in the poll :p
Hey, don't be envious just be happy ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaiam
Exactly, I agree with you. We should make happiness for ourselves no one will create it for us ... when we consider ourselves responsible for our own lives we can be happy ... you work hard at itQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
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Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Very well said Scher. You are exactly correct.
I'm very happy. As the majority of us are either very happy or rather happy, think there could be any connection to books? ;)
I have one chid that has a hard time understanding this and I try very hard to make her 'see the light.' I wonder how you learned this important lesson? You give me hope fo her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I would have chosen extremely happy as well!Quote:
Originally Posted by dramasnot6
I think so ... there is a great difference between those who are living with the books and those who are not reading any ... it is the case with the people around me ....Quote:
Originally Posted by andave_ya
Ok, so everyone is saying that happiness isn't based on things or circumstances or other people. You are in control of your own happiness. That makes sense, but how to do force yourself to be happy? I've been depressed alot the last few years and I would go through phases when'd I'd think that my life would be so much better if I had a better job, car, more friends, a boyfriend etc. But then I'd realize that'd even if I did have all those things, I'd still be miserable. So I know it's not things that make you happy, but what is it?
It's all very relative. Can't really generalise.
Pretty flippin' hyped.
:D
Let happiness and glee happen everyday,for I abhor depression and grief.I am,well,not a genuinely 'happy' person because I cannot attain my wishes.It is taxing to overcome the negative for it undermines postitive easily.
This is such a hard question to answer because, I am sure, the answer is ver different for each and every one of us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weisinheimer
Even though I know it is somewhat of a Pollyanna attitude, I have come to appreciate the things I have (both materialistic and otherwise): Among my students, there are people who have had strokes and lost their ability to read, write or even to hold a pen properly. Thinking that the very same thing can happen to any one of us, I try to make best of what I have today. I am glad that I am healthy (more or less) and independent in many ways and have the people I care about around me. I was not very satisfied with certain things about my career so I have decided to make the necessary changes and taken big steps towards altering those circumstances that were bothering me (even though it means I will be making sacrifices and working probably twice harder).
Even if sometimes things don't go the way we want them to, being able to say "I have tried and done my best" is a happiness in itself too.
I don't know how happy I am right now... I cant even say if I'm happy or not. Maybe a mix emotion. Happy I was able to watch my students giving their best in their basketball game :)but sad because they lost. :(
Happy because I'm in love with my husband :) and sad because I wasn't able to prepare his dinner before leaving for work. (happened that I came home late because of watching the basketball game of my students) :(
Happiness is fleeting every time.
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Originally Posted by Weisinheimer
This is such a great response from Scher. I completely agree. I have my health and family and a reasonably good life. What more could I want? Nothing. I have fun either at work, with my wife, and here on lit net. So I have my health, a good life, and I have fun. What more is there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Scher, I wish you the best of luck with the changes you are making. I hope they work out perfectly. :)
When I started this thread I was actually thinking of this woman who is always so happy. There are a million bad things that have happened to her family and she has suffered through so many things. Her first husband was not really the best guy, and when their three children were young he was in a motorcycle accident that left him with the mentality of a three or four year old. She cared for him for over 30 years. One of her children was brutally attacked in one of the most horrid crimes to happen in this area in the past 50 years. She survived, but it was touch and go and she is forever changed by the experience. She has cared for many sick and dieing relatives and is always busy doing for others. About a year after her first husband passed away she remarried. We were all so happy for her and she was excited to be wife to a husband instead of mother. A month after the wedding he suffered a severe stroke. It’s been about ten years and he can walk a little now, but he still cannot communicate.
I don’t know how she keeps her attitude. I admire her ability to keep going and doing for others. I admire her smile.
I am fine.
Of course one cannot be gleeful all the time.Trails and tribulations struck virtually everyday.
I voted "rather happy". I am generally a jolly person although I do have a temper problem. There are always things in life that get us down, however it is up to you yourself to decide what you are going to let get you down. There are some pressing issues in my life that are bothering me and the time is drawing nearer for me to decide how I am to handle them, but for the moment I am not letting them bother me too much. After all, this is my last year in high school and I must enjoy it while it lasts!
I know I should be happy, but I'm not. I do try to be happy, but for some reason it doesn't work.
Things that should make me happy: I'm studying something I really enjoy and something that should make sure I'll get a job after I graduate. I don't have any financial problems. I have a couple of friends. I have a pretty good family (even if we don't always get along that well).
Why am I not happy then? I like studying, but sometimes it's just too much work and stress. I almost never see my friends, they're so busy with their lives and living in different towns makes things even more difficult. Without my flatmate (thank God for her) I'd be really, really lonely. I have an atopic skin which makes my life really difficult. Right now it's pretty bad, I wake up a couple of times every night because it hurts so much. I hate the fact my skin takes up all my thoughts and all my energy. I cannot forget it even for a moment.