Many people believe that the most important reason to live is to be happy. However, happiness differs among everybody, as different things make different people happy. So my question to you is what makes you happy? How can happiness be achieved? Are you happy? (please be as thorough in your explanation as you'd like).
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What is Happiness?
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there is no such thing as happiness, though it might be interpreted as such when we fulfill our biological drives.
Happiness is:
Not being suspicious of a newcomer's first thread on this forum sounding as an invitation to discuss life's important questions with a Scientologist.
Not being suspicious of a newcomer's first thread on this forum sounding as an invitation to discuss life's important questions with a Scientologist.
haha blue velvet, I'm growing to love your post more and more.
To the original poster I'm gonna go with the beatles here "happiness is a warm gun"
Got to be a 12" Ultraportable MacBook Pro for me. I know that makes me pretty shallow - less than one inch deep in fact 
Happiness is just a chemical - Darren Hanlon
Things that would make me happy:
For myself
On the global scale
Things that would make me happy:
For myself
- Friends
- Respect
- Financial Security (I don't want to be rich but I just want to feel safe that if something happens I have the money to deal with it)
On the global scale
- Tolerance
- Respect for nature (Reducing emmisions, recycling, better use of resources, etc...)
for me is:
friends
family
job security
financial security (In a state where if anything happens i will be able to expense out for it)
friends
family
job security
financial security (In a state where if anything happens i will be able to expense out for it)
Happiness-
MR highs
Listening to music on iTunes
Friends
Family
Horse
Surfing the internet
Macs in general.
MR highs
Listening to music on iTunes
Friends
Family
Horse
Surfing the internet
Macs in general.
Happiness is a stupid feeling which you can achieve only by ignorance and living in the moment only.
I m the happiest when I help someone really needy and make him feel happy. BTW I`ve only got 4-5 chances to do so in my 25 years life. And believe me nothing beats that feeling. You really feel good bout yourself and your life. You forget how many bad things you`ve done and how much life sucks. No one`s perfect. We all make some mistakes. Some bad, some very bad and some downright ugly.
May be some of you might not have done that BAD but I`ve personally done some extremely stupid things which make me feel bad enough to wish not being alive at all. But fact remains that I m not dead yet and I`ll definitely die someday, no matter what. And being an atheist helps me realize the importance of life. So there is no point in wasting your life feeling sad or bad bout anything. Be happy instead. And to achieve happiness you`ll have to be ignorant to those things/memories which you cant change.
Once you leave behind those sad memories, you can find happiness in even the smallest of things. It can be anything from having your favorite food, to watching your team winning against rivals, to promotion, to knowing that 10" MBP is launched(even if you have no intentions/money to buy one. ever). And yes, not to forget, back to back sex.
EDIT: WOW. I just remembered I had a dream last night bout finding a 17" MBP in my room with no takers. That thing felt huge compared to my MB. And I cant tell how much happy I was. I even remember checking out the KeyB light. It looked so cool.
I m the happiest when I help someone really needy and make him feel happy. BTW I`ve only got 4-5 chances to do so in my 25 years life. And believe me nothing beats that feeling. You really feel good bout yourself and your life. You forget how many bad things you`ve done and how much life sucks. No one`s perfect. We all make some mistakes. Some bad, some very bad and some downright ugly.
May be some of you might not have done that BAD but I`ve personally done some extremely stupid things which make me feel bad enough to wish not being alive at all. But fact remains that I m not dead yet and I`ll definitely die someday, no matter what. And being an atheist helps me realize the importance of life. So there is no point in wasting your life feeling sad or bad bout anything. Be happy instead. And to achieve happiness you`ll have to be ignorant to those things/memories which you cant change.
Once you leave behind those sad memories, you can find happiness in even the smallest of things. It can be anything from having your favorite food, to watching your team winning against rivals, to promotion, to knowing that 10" MBP is launched(even if you have no intentions/money to buy one. ever). And yes, not to forget, back to back sex.
EDIT: WOW. I just remembered I had a dream last night bout finding a 17" MBP in my room with no takers. That thing felt huge compared to my MB. And I cant tell how much happy I was. I even remember checking out the KeyB light. It looked so cool.
You must be very well equipped.
LOL
. I hope you`re kidding and understood that I actually meant twice in a row.