Are You Happy? And, what is happiness to you?

[Ringodoggie]

Just for sake of conversation, I wonder what people say makes them happy. Kids and family? Big deal. Your dick works. Hooray. Success, money? Got it. I GUARANTEE money does not buy happiness. Fame? Nothing worse. Fulfillment? There's one I really like. Winning races. Being better. But, I definitely wouldn't call that happiness. It's a moment of bravado, really. Nothing more.

I have never really been happy. Never been in love. Never got too excited about much of anything. I suffer from clinical depression so, I know that. But, again, big deal. It's there. I deal with it. It comes and goes. Embrace the disease. LOL

Just curious, exactly what makes most people happy. Not that uplifting moment during harvest. LOL Not the moment at the finish line of the race. Those are moments.

Is your LIFE happy? Why?










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[Weird]

the joy of being that exists without attachment to the external

 

[Ringodoggie]

You remind me of the guy in the movie, Mystery Men.

LOL

Peace (but your avatar creeps me out).

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[MedFaced]

There's one I really like. Winning races. Being better. But, I definitely wouldn't call that happiness. It's a moment of bravado, really. Nothing more.

This is the closest thing. The race for example, pushing ones self to the highest degree of personal achievement is happiness. The pursuit, all pistons firing off in concert, clear minded direction towards a known goal. Although losing would suck, being in peak form and performing to the extent of ability is that happiness. Frees up the conscious. You win or come in second and know you need to be faster. Doesn’t matter because you know. When we deviate from our personal best, or simply find ourselves in situations of existing/stagnation, that’s depression of the self.

And anyone that just walks around smiling all day is a sociopath or on better drugs than me.

 

[hayday]

Yes, I'm generally happy but to know happiness you have to be less than that sometimes. Selfish things make me the happiest because I don't have to stuggle with sharing them. However there's the sublime happiness in sharing. It's kinda strange.

 

[I'mback]

Sharing bread with friends and family.

 

[Sunshineinabag]

Im happiest when im ACTIVE that means not making excuses about workout routines or walking the hound dawg............I find that if i Focus on things i cant control its a wrap so i focus on what i can. I listen to 825 hz relaxation videos at night while i sleep and strangely enough it works!
Pretentious folks are evertwhere its my job to avoid those negative clouds and be the woodchucks on the geico commercials ROFL!

 

[rolandomota]

Being alive makes me happy experiencing life with all of it's ups and downs makes me happy shit man even being depressed makes me happy even though I might not realize it at the time I'm just happy to exist yea Happy to be depressed because if I don't feel like shit and sad how the fuck would I know when I'm glad and exited?

 

[armedoldhippy]

my definition of "happy" changes over time, sometimes from day to day, or even hour to hour. these days it largely depends on eating bacon, having a buzz, & not getting arrested. it is nice to wake up, too. that is not always going to happen...

 

[Bobby Boucher]

Any moment when I can escape myself.

Transcendence always seemed like an intangible until I started studying piano.

It's a very real and describable and necessary function.

Try playing a piece of Liszt with all that split timing and tell me you don't instinctually transcend into a more functional time and place.

Try it!

 

[Bud Green]

I used to go on months-long adventures when I was younger... Most of them out of this country...

I would have to say that it was during these travels that I was the happiest...
I am the happiest when I'm seeing and discovering and experiencing new things and new places and new acquaintances.

and it's always a bonus when I'm doing these things in the company of an old, true friend...

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[Weird]

Peace (but your avatar creeps me out).

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dwight shrute with dreads



what's not to like

 

[Bobby Boucher]

Not long ago.. this is what made me happy.

I left school when I was 14 to do this. I was a respected member of the community. Travelled a bit..

Never bought me the respect of anybody who didn't wear a pair of blades. Always had the opposite effect. Ultimately wound up injuring my neck. Been living in debilitating pain ever since.

Happiness is a fruitless and costly endeavor. I'd aim for transcendence. To entertain your mind by escaping it, altogether.

Works for me.

 

[EsterEssence]

Happiness makes me happy. Not having to stress over anything. If you are in a situation that you can do something do it don’t stress, if you are in a situation that you can do nothing about don’t stress there’s nothing you can do. Mindfulness and awareness are the key to make it through this illusion we call life...

 

[Ringodoggie]

Any moment when I can escape myself.

Transcendence always seemed like an intangible until I started studying piano.

It's a very real and describable and necessary function.

Try playing a piece of Liszt with all that split timing and tell me you don't instinctually transcend into a more functional time and place.

Try it!

Your absolutely right about that. I found the same place in computer hacking. Math was my thing. And, when you are head deep into a 128 bit encryption algorithm that DTV paid millions to make unhackable..... you are definitely in a special place. I could literally go days with little more than coffee and cigarettes (and, pot, of course. LOL).






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[dank.frank]

Happiness or being happy, is nothing more than a chemically induced emotional state. Like all emotions, it is temporal and fleeting, existing only for mere moments.

To be happy, all the time, is literally to be addicted to a given set of chemicals and to be in constant pursuit of that release.

The pursuit of happiness is the chasing of that addiction.

1. Endocannabinoids.
2. Dopamine.
3. Oxytocin.
4. Endorphin.
5. GABA.
6. Serotonin.
7. Adrenaline.


I do believe in experiencing happiness. I embrace it when that emotional state is triggered, but I don't strive to constantly create or foster that state.

VERY rarely in my life, can I say I've experienced true states of emotional bliss - true happiness. So rare in fact, I've had to pause and try to identify what exactly this "weird high" was.

I do believe in the striving and focusing on being content. That has permanence and foundation because it is a active choice - not a chemical response.

Am I content? Most of the time.



dank.Frank

 

[Ringodoggie]

Happiness or being happy, is nothing more than a chemically induced emotional state. Like all emotions, it is temporal and fleeting, existing only for mere moments.

To be happy, all the time, is literally to be addicted to a given set of chemicals and to be in constant pursuit of that release.

The pursuit of happiness is the chasing of that addiction.

1. Endocannabinoids.
2. Dopamine.
3. Oxytocin.
4. Endorphin.
5. GABA.
6. Serotonin.
7. Adrenaline.


I do believe in experiencing happiness. I embrace it when that emotional state is triggered, but I don't strive to constantly create or foster that state.

VERY rarely in my life, can I say I've experienced true states of emotional bliss - true happiness. So rare in fact, I've had to pause and try to identify what exactly this "weird high" was.

I do believe in the striving and focusing on being content. That has permanence and foundation because it is a active choice - not a chemical response.

Am I content? Most of the time.



dank.Frank

Well said. So, by simply giving the brain the proper signals to tell it that we're happy, is all we need. Not real happiness.... just the perception. I like that.


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[Bobby Boucher]

There's a beautiful piece of advice I've picked up, for maintaining a musical pieces integrity in interpretation that I find works analogously with life.

Music (and life) should be full of sentiment, but never sentimentality.

Every emotion is a useful tool in an artists palette.. but cheap is cheap and corny is corny.

Let every emotion wash over and through, but chasing one or the other is absolutely cheap and corny.

 

[flylowgethigh]

Sorta in the same boat with Ms. EsterEssence on this. Like that triangle of needs, IMO you must not have any screaming at you that reside on the bottom. Somehow I have gotten away with life up to this point and seem to have those needs filled for now. Funny sex used to be on the lower level back in the 70's. But in security I feel happy. I have been flat broke in the past and as a result I am a cheap bastard who is generous to others when I can be. Being debt free, living on your own land without nearby people is peaceful.

Now, I laugh easily when I am happy, or is it the opposite. The dawgs and their antics, funny pictures, positive things. People I know bringing their kids over for a day of fishing in the ponds is really enjoyable. The migratory birds will be back in a month od so and they make me happy. The trick is to stay in the window of happiness and away from BS.

I hate change and dislike most people, and those two evil things are threatening to encroach this open view country place I have lived at for 30 yrs. I should buy the 20ac on the other side to keep them away there. I could sell and move, but where? Besides, running away to somewhere else is more uncertain than staying. And most of all you cannot run away from yourself.

So.... To as I try to live in liberty while pursueing happiness, my first look is inward. Beer did me no favors really, my brain just made me think I love to drink it. Cold frosty tasty and all... I am much better off without it. I am gonna swing by that little beer bar in a while with a good buzz, and have a water or two talking with old bar rats, just to piss off the woman that runs it who used to give me so much BS, cause I am can. Might kick some pool playing ass, or not cause I get wound up. Sometimes being a prick makes me happy in a sick way.

Health, working on that now. I am thinking that part of getting away with life is keeping the escape machine working well. I neglected that the last many years so good health is a new project. Damn broken thumb, clogged esophagus... making apts to get them fixed.

Mr. Boucher, there is a plate that holds 3 of my neck bones together and it helped a lot. Just can't turn the head as well.

But... I am the worst for starting projects and before they are done I start another. Usually after buying the stuff to do the first. Big backlog to be worked on, which I hope makes me happy when they are working. Toys are usually more trouble than they are worth though for the maintenance. They do not bother me as they have their own sheds, out od sight...

That brings up my real worry (besides the fuckin cops) is the damn BS this whole economy and society is built on. National politics, even a trip into town dealing with the stoopit and stress there is not how I get happy. So I avoid it and try to stay at happyville.

 

[Sunshineinabag]

your right

your right

Happiness or being happy, is nothing more than a chemically induced emotional state. Like all emotions, it is temporal and fleeting, existing only for mere moments.

To be happy, all the time, is literally to be addicted to a given set of chemicals and to be in constant pursuit of that release.

The pursuit of happiness is the chasing of that addiction.

1. Endocannabinoids.
2. Dopamine.
3. Oxytocin.
4. Endorphin.
5. GABA.
6. Serotonin.
7. Adrenaline.


I do believe in experiencing happiness. I embrace it when that emotional state is triggered, but I don't strive to constantly create or foster that state.

VERY rarely in my life, can I say I've experienced true states of emotional bliss - true happiness. So rare in fact, I've had to pause and try to identify what exactly this "weird high" was.

I do believe in the striving and focusing on being content. That has permanence and foundation because it is a active choice - not a chemical response.

Am I content? Most of the time.



dank.Frank

Your right upon further thought im happiest right after i cum....