All said and done, I am glad to see that greater majority consider themselves on the "happier" side.
All said and done, I am glad to see that greater majority consider themselves on the "happier" side.
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Yeah, it really makes the science psychologist in me feel like passing out surveys to catch trends, but "happyness" has been done by so many desperate grad students that I'd feel cliche.Originally Posted by Scheherazade
All said and done, I am glad to see that greater majority consider themselves on the "happier" side.
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Ive been thinking about this I think I have to choose very happy. That sounds reluctant doesnt it? But I AM happy, Id raher her was a simply Happy category becasue I could be more content I guess but I am happy. And I am also glad things are not perfect because then I would be either bored or worrying someting was bound to go wrong and destroy it all. When I was little I used to think heaven sounded boring all in all, but Ive decided if its really bordome or the capcity to feel bored anyway would be eradicated.
So yes Very Happy not ecstatic but I hae so much to look forward to and keep me busy and better than all that Ihave plans on how to get what I want how could I not be happy?
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I don't know if I should ask, but how can any of you be "very happy" with all of the really AWFUL things that happen in the world? There's an entire continent starving. Human trafficking exists. We're killing the planet. If you live in a city, you walk past homeless drug-addicted people every day. Things are really bad (not to mention CUNFUSING, which is obviously what gets to me). How can you be happy when things are so wrong? Why SHOULD we strive to be happy?
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
I know I am going to regret this but here goes...
Basically people are selfish, but it goes further than that. The way I see it is this, there was a time when I made myself physically sick on a not infrequent basis over the social injustices and poverty and all in the world that I had no control over, being miserable about it doen't change the fact the world stinks it just slows us doen in any attempt to make it better. I personally think you need t make the best with hat you have be happy about it and yes very pollyanna but a little spreading of happiness and goodwill does more good than spreading misery and guilt. I know most of the homless druggie alchies living between the curry mile and central library in manchester by site or o day hello to. I even know how a couple of them like their coffee and I thin they would rather be treated like norml people and have a laugh or two with whatever charity you are handing out, a spoon of sugar and all that.
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It seems like you felt just like how I currently do. If mankind were REALLY selfish, then why would we feel that way? I hear people saying that crap all the time, and I don't think that we are selfish. If we were, then how do you explain guilt? I've asked around, and none of my psych professors can give me a reason why guilt is beneficial to an indevidual (beyond the old "everything for the sake of the group" evolutionary cooperation theories, which are overly-fit and lacking). I often think that we SHOULD feel bad, because most other poeple who aren't in the first world have no choice, not to mention a lot of people who are starving to death and losing their homes in rich nations. Most people who exist in the world have to deal with deplorable conditions, and the only way to stop that is to confront it head on, and to stop pretending that it doesn't exist. I'm not talking about charity, I'm talking about fundamental change. If everyone felt as sick as I very often do, things would happen. I don't care if people have to be guilted into opening their eyes, as long as they do. I also don't see how me being happy and bubbly in any way helps people who are miserable. I think that that "goodwill, if you love your life then you put a little bit more love in the world" idea is a whitewash: it's people who just happen to be lucky enough to live in desireable conditions justifying their position so that they can live comfortably (I am NOT(!!!) attacking you, Nightshade).
Edit: I don't mean to preach, I just really do want your input. These things often bother me a lot.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
I don't think feeling "bad" is helpful, though, JuniperWoolf. If you truly feel that way then I think you should choose a cause you find worthy and work toward a fundamental change in that area.
It is the wise person who can look around them and really see all that is in the world, the good and the bad (and the ugly) and not let them affect them adversely, but not be blind to these things either.
And your friend, motherhubbard, is unusual. I think there is a belief in this country that we should be like her and if we only put our minds to it, we would. I have lived with someone who has experienced genuine depression, and it just doesn't always work that way.
I believe there is something to the idea of thinking positively, however. I have read that thinking or talking each day of good things in our lives does seem to bring about a more positive mindset.
I voted for "rather happy." Like Scher I need to take steps to change my job. I work in a highly stressful atmosphere. I did look around this summer, but there is not a lot available at the moment.
Oh, and I just had two teeth pulled, so today I'm "not very happy."
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Ouch! Poor Qimi. Hope you feel better.Oh, and I just had two teeth pulled, so today I'm "not very happy."
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Thank you! So do I!
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Happiness is something immeasurable and incalculable. You cannot rate the level of happiness the way a seismographic measurement is used. Or there is no barometer to gauge it.
Yet I say that happiness has somewhat to do with stress as well. As regards stress level I feel that those residing in metropolitan cities a have higher levels of stress than those who dwell in village communities or those who work mired in cornfields live comparatively a happier and a little more unstressed life. Not that there is no stress, there is plenty but not as deep and harrowingly intense with those who live in mega cities
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
As happy as i want to :-)
"He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done."
One does not look too far to witness horrible things... And I am sure almost all of us have enough "tragedy" in our lives to provide enough material for soap writers for at least three seasons.
However, it is important to stress here that "happiness" does not necessarily mean going out to party at all costs. Like Qimi above me mentioned, we can still be aware of others' miseries without losing the faith... Be aware and do something about those actively while still keeping our head above the water.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I was happy a little time ago, and now suddenly the barometer of happiness, if measurable at all, has gone down.
I was happy to eat something and when the eating was over that kind of happiness got over.
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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