I'm happy....but if I won the lotto I would be REALLY happy!!!

Happiness is the flip side of death to me!

Even when I am sad, I am happy to be alive to experience the emotion! If I never experienced "sad"...how could I know "happy"?

Deep...huh? ^^^

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Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

~Thomas Dewar~

VERY!

I’ve been waiting for your input to this thread and I wasn’t disappointed.





Now where are the words from OldFart?

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Still in his head!?

I do the things that bring me happiness. I spend time with people who make me content. I surround myself with things that bring me comfort, and I try to create daily happiness for myself.

Being comfortable in one's own skin and content with life in general is what I think is needed to garner real happiness in one's life.

I have found that it takes far less to make my feel happy than in years gone by for I have of course realized many things that I had wanted that I thought would make me happy in life.

Some were the "icing on the cake" but what I have learned that whatever makes you the happiest can also bring to you the most pain in life. Without some painful experiences in life I don't believe anyone can truly appreciate their happy times to their fullest.

When young material items bring forth happiness but as I have aged of course my views have changed too. These days it brings great happiness to awaken to a new day to share with my family and friends.....to love and be loved, appreciated and respected and accepted for who I am.

I am content and therefore I am able to accept whatever happiness comes in to my life with much gratitude to the one responsible for this, even if it is only myself at times.

I didn't want to list what makes me happy for this changes day to day. I hope this answers your questions PF. If not....too bad

this convo is wayyy too existential for this cat.
[gump]happy is as happy does[/gump]

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

PF gives me a lot of ??? with no easy answers, but here goes nothin'...

I suppose at this point in my existence, I've had enough of the life events that have made me not happy that I can now derive a little happiness from the little things that I used to miss altogether...e.g., the other day on the new gig as a courier, I had made a pickup on the west side to go back to the warehouse on the southside, not a real profitable run by itself...I ask dispatch if I can hang out there for a while & wait for another p/u going the same way, he says np...I grab a burger, enjoy a leisurelyu lunch in Centennial Park in the shadow of the Parthenon replica, eventually I get a run that takes me back & I get paid for 2 runs while making essentially one, & i thought later, "lunch in the park on a nice winter day was not a waste of time," & I could say that for an hour I was reasonably happy...

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If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

Happy is not a word I often use any longer, as it means too many things to too many people.

I am generally content in my life, and if nothing's hurting me, then to some I'm happy.

I take joy from good company and friends, in the RW and here, and to some I'm happy.

I see my immortality in my children, and seeing them not hurting, then to some I'm happy.

I'll settle for content, with the prospect of occasional peaks of joy.

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