How happy are you?

whirlpool

Giving your gut reaction to this question, how happy are you?

On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being practically clinically depressed (??), 10 being you probably just took an E.

• Don't consider what other people would think of your answer
• Don't think about how grateful you think you should be for the life you have
• You can't give a wrong answer
• Just go with your gut instinct and answer within seconds
• This is about gut reaction, not careful consideration.

Answers in the poll above. Answers are anonymous.

jobeenfitz

that's a big question.

NegativeCreep

I'm about a four.

Ihatecuddles-old

I said 4.

SusieBlue

I'm about a 3.

jobeenfitz

Gut reaction gona be a big fat lie imo. Ah shur I'm grand could be the answer, even though I'm totally depressed, broke and cant see a way out of this black hole. So I am gona go ahead with an eight.

catallus

7. I'm loving every second of it.

mawk

I went with 7. But that may be conservative. Life is awesome

debabyjesus

Big fat 10

Cee-Jay-Cee

I'm putting myself at 8, I have everything I want. I could do with a lot more money but I can manage fine on what I do have. I have 2 beautiful wee daughters, a beautiful wife, a lovely home and a good secure job that pays ok. I do actually have a lot to be very grateful for and I generally am grateful.

donvito99

About a 7, but ask me again when the exams come up.

Systemic Risk

Im a consistent 7 id say.

RedXIV

I put a 9. I'd like to have put down a 10 but I've ambitions to fix things in my life (as well as world domination) so that should probably knock me down a point

jobeenfitz

Four is winning.

timthumbni

I range from about a 10 (shortly after an E lol) down to about a 3. Wouldn't say lower than that although I'm convinced I have dipped into very low areas for short times. Depending on the day I could be all numbers in between.

I get the churchill black dog at times but again thankfully It doesn't happen often and passes without much effort..

Are most people not the same?

tosspot15

I'm a 4. Constantly in a pretty dull mood and feeling lonely. But I'm not depressed enough to warrent any help, according to my psychiatrist who didnt give a shít when I visited him.

frozenfrozen

Gut instinct said 4. That's a bit weird its the most common.. It's mostly just due to being very bored in college lately because of low work load.. but just enough to keep me from doing fun stuff.... I probably should have said something like 7, since I'm not sad at all.. I call for a revote

Muise...

I'm a 5. that's half-happy though, not half-sad.

Lightbulb Sun

4. Haven't enjoyed life in a while.

pharmaton

Emotions are for pussies way too complex for such simple adjectives, although I'm usually more of an angry or apathetic kind of person myself. I belly laughed several times today but I just happened to find something funny at the time. I'm fairly content at the minute and I haven't cried in years, which is either a good thing or a bad thing, I just haven't figured out which yet. It's probably bad though.





7

Vito Corleone

1

Going through the motions.

SharpshooterTom

I'm 27, had all sorts of social problems, previously suffered from social anxiety which has prevented me from having any friends/social life since the age of 13. On top of which I therefore obviously never had a girlfriend or had any contact with girls, making me yes a virgin. All of that obviously on top constantly failing/scraping exams at university (because I was so depressed about my own life and the direction I was heading) made me attempt suicide at one point a couple of years back.

But since then I have had help (for the first time ever), trying to involve myself more socially now and seemingly breaking my social anxiety. However its being offsetted by the fact that I am trying to get into Dentistry (career change) in the ROI and having to require to get 2A*'s and 2A's at A-level for that, which is not enabling me to have any sort of a life at the moment.

So I have put myself at a 4, however if I can get into university next year, and get these near impossible grades, my life (and particularly my social life) might really pick up and that score could go higher.

Its hard work is life, if you want to improve you're level of happiness and well being, or at least have a chance of doing so, you have to work at it.

I'm about a 5. In a glass-half-full way, not a glass-half-empty way.

I'd be higher but I'm facing a stressful few months, but it's manageable.

Witchie

7. I am generally very happy with my lot at the moment but yesterday I had to come home from Dublin to an empty house. Eldest is in university, youngest is away to his Dad for mid term. Usually this fills me with joy that I dont have to consider anyone else, can eat what I want, when I want, not get up early to bring him to school, watch what I want on tv etc but I hit a real downer.

Came home and cried for ages and chatted to my best mate on skype as the reality of having an empty house all the time is only 3 years down the road.

She cheered me up somewhat and today hasn't been too bad but got cheered up to hear that the guy I spent years loving still misses me. We wont get back together or anything but its nice to know that I still mean something to him.

Karl Stein

I'm so happy that if I had just one Happy Meal I'd probably explode with happiness.

I take despondex to keep my happiness under control.

Peel the layers of that onion folks.

wretcheddomain

About a 9.5, no more.

Oregano_State

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I'm 27, had all sorts of social problems, previously suffered from social anxiety which has prevented me from having any friends/social life since the age of 13. On top of which I therefore obviously never had a girlfriend or had any contact with girls, making me yes a virgin. All of that obviously on top constantly failing/scraping exams at university (because I was so depressed about my own life and the direction I was heading) made me attempt suicide at one point a couple of years back.

But since then I have had help (for the first time ever), trying to involve myself more socially now and seemingly breaking my social anxiety. However its being offsetted by the fact that I am trying to get into Dentistry (career change) in the ROI and having to require to get 2A*'s and 2A's at A-level for that, which is not enabling me to have any sort of a life at the moment.

So I have put myself at a 4, however if I can get into university next year, and get these near impossible grades, my life (and particularly my social life) might really pick up and that score could go higher.

Its hard work is life, if you want to improve you're level of happiness and well being, or at least have a chance of doing so, you have to work at it.

Dude, it may be a cliché but life is a journey. It's the process of living that you'll derive the most pleasure out of, not the attainment of goals. Reaching a target you've set will give you immense satisfaction if you've put a lot of work into achieving it but I'd be very hesitant to take the view that "if I do/buy/go to xyz, then I'll be happy".

Best of luck with the studies anyway.

...and apologies AH for the seriousnessnessness of my post.

Edit: I answered 7 myself. I'm generally a pretty positive person.

P_1

About a 5 truth be told, lately I've been feeling no real emotion either way be that happiness or sadness

3

Tomorrow I could climb up to 4 or fall back to 2. I'm working on the assumption that I have yet to ever hit 1; I hope I never do but it's entirely possible.
Moving back to England in January where (money issues aside) I hope I can reach the dizzy heights of 6.

MaroonAndGreen

Said 6. Have alot going for me but been feeling down lately..

Lack of a job also affects this by 1 or 2 points

dark crystal

Witchie wrote: »

7. I am generally very happy with my lot at the moment but yesterday I had to come home from Dublin to an empty house. Eldest is in university, youngest is away to his Dad for mid term. Usually this fills me with joy that I dont have to consider anyone else, can eat what I want, when I want, not get up early to bring him to school, watch what I want on tv etc but I hit a real downer.

Came home and cried for ages and chatted to my best mate on skype as the reality of having an empty house all the time is only 3 years down the road.

She cheered me up somewhat and today hasn't been too bad but got cheered up to hear that the guy I spent years loving still misses me. We wont get back together or anything but its nice to know that I still mean something to him.

You can take my four year old for a few days if you like. After 2 days with him, you'll have a newly found love of your quiet house and 'me' time! :P

I would say I'm about a four right now. Myself and my partner both working jobs we hate for little money. We haven't enough money to get away for a weekend or even a night out alone, just bill after bill. Even if we did, there's no one to mind the kids, as my family show no interest - it was my son's birthday last Sunday and not one of them remembered it. Again.

Life just seems like one major slog at the moment with no light at the end of the tunnel. I get pretty depressed about it at times.

errlloyd

Really content in my life right now, but worried I've fallen into the trap of becoming comfortable at the expense of progression.

So a 7, because day to day I feel like a 10, but minus 3 because long term I need to sort **** out and lack motivation to do it. I know it sounds like I thought about it before posting, I did, because I think about it a lot.

Voodoomelon

I went with a five. Seems like the days and weeks are just forming into one another without anything particularly exciting happening over the last few years. The odd burst of happiness and sadness obviously, but overall a giant meh at the moment.

wretcheddomain

Load of miserable c*nts the lot of ya...

To quote a certain scientist...

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.

Show come appreciation for this fact before you complain of not being able to have a holiday, complete an exam, or some other really trivial mundane part of your life.

Maybe then, you'll cheer up.

TeddyTedson

I've been on a bit of a roller coaster lately and had days where I'd have been a 1 and days where I'd have been a 9 or 10.

Fat Nav

My choice was a big fat 1 , ( clinically depressed ) and the drugs don't work..

catallus

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Load of miserable c*nts the lot of ya...

To quote a certain scientist...



Show come appreciation for this fact before you complain of not being able to have a holiday, complete an exam, or some other really trivial mundane part of your life.

Maybe then, you'll cheer up.

This is the nonsense that Dawkins spouts at his most self-satisfied; to base your idea of happiness on this is deeply stupid.

jobeenfitz

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Load of miserable c*nts the lot of ya...

To quote a certain scientist...



Show come appreciation for this fact before you complain of not being able to have a holiday, complete an exam, or some other really trivial mundane part of your life.

Maybe then, you'll cheer up.

I am def ten now.

wretcheddomain

catallus wrote: »

This is the nonsense that Dawkins spouts at his most self-satisfied; to base your idea of happiness on this is deeply stupid.

It's not about basing happiness but placing things into their proper context. A bit of perspective is quite a useful thing and shouldn't be looked down upon.

The Backwards Man

10. Even when I am a 1 I am a 10. Make the most of it folks, life keeps rolling on regardless.

catallus

wretcheddomain wrote: »

It's not about basing happiness but placing things into their proper context. A bit of perspective is quite a useful thing and shouldn't be looked down upon.

Perspective is great, but saying that you should be happy because you are a successful protein strain is pushing it.

wretcheddomain

catallus wrote: »

Perspective is great, but saying that you should be happy because you are a successful protein strain is pushing it.

Nobody is saying that because you beat 250,000,000 other sperm in the race to life you should be happy. But we should celebrate winning the race, right?

catallus

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Nobody is saying that because you beat 250,000,000 other sperm in the race to life you should be happy. But we should celebrate winning the race, right?

What? NO!

wretcheddomain

catallus wrote: »

What? NO!

That's why I said above that AH'ers are miserable c*nts for the most part as anything positive auto-mutates into a negative.

grenache

I'm either a 1 or a 2. But I went with 2, as I do have the odd ok day. Every other day is a struggle. I'm sure there are many more like me.

wretcheddomain

grenache wrote: »

I'm either a 1 or a 2. But I went with 2, as I do have the odd ok day. Every other day is a struggle. I'm sure there are many more like me.

What are you struggling with?

catallus

wretcheddomain wrote: »

That's why I said above that AH'ers are miserable c*nts for the most part as anything positive auto-mutates into a negative.

Well, that's ok then.

Eutow

grenache wrote: »

I'm either a 1 or a 2. But I went with 2, as I do have the odd ok day. Every other day is a struggle. I'm sure there are many more like me.

Went with 2 as well.

jobeenfitz

anybody on drugs or alcohol should deduct a few points so as not to make the rest of ye look so bad. Im back down to a 6 or 7 so.

Jonny Blaze

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Load of miserable c*nts the lot of ya...

We can't all be cheery c*nts like you!

catallus

jobeenfitz wrote: »

anybody on drugs or alcohol should deduct a few points so as not to make the rest of ye look so bad. Im back down to a 6 or 7 so.

Aw shít, I'm a six so.