Happiness is....

mrty

According to the Chinese happiness is having someone to love something to do and something to hope for. Personally I think its very simple when thought about and very true. What do you think?

BikeQueery

It covers a lot of bases, so that's nice. I don't believe in the quest for happiness though. Life has ups and downs and they're both good and necessary. So if you forget about the happiness bit I still think it's a nice message, that relationships matter, to have a reason to get up in the morning and to have hope.

DazMarz

Happiness Is A Warm Gun according to The Beatles.

Slattsy

And by gun, they meant......

DazMarz

DazMarz wrote: »

Happiness Is A Warm Gun according to The Beatles.

Slattsy wrote: »

And by gun, they meant......

Many different interpretations of the song have been offered. Some writers have suggested that, in addition to the Peanuts reference, the "warm gun" could refer to Lennon's sexual desire for Yoko Ono and to his well-documented problems with heroin at the time of the recording of the White Album, where the gun represents a hypodermic syringe, although Lennon claimed to have snorted heroin rather than injected it. In his 1980 Playboy interview Lennon admitted to the double meaning of guns and sexuality but denied that the song had anything to do with drugs: "that was the beginning of my relationship with Yoko and I was very sexually oriented then". American and British censors were unhappy with the song, and it was banned by the BBC for its sexual symbolism.

-Courtesy of Wikipedia

everlast75

100% honest - as soon as I opened this thread that f*cking Pharrell Williams song came on the radio

nala_rinaldo

who knows what happiness is. but i know that people can make you pretty unhappy. murder threats and what not.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

..a cigar called Hamlet.

Philo Beddoe

...never having to say you're sorry.

That's right, isn't it?

Slattsy

.... being loved.

Chance The Rapper

Blowjobs.

Geomy

Surfing 7 foot clean waves, westerly swell with a 16 second period and off shore winds....

lazybones32

Happiness is an inside job.

Connavar

Geomy wrote: »

Surfing 7 foot clean waves, westerly swell with a 16 second period and off shore winds....

When the water is warm enough to just wear a rashy

Knex*

Not what I strive for. Contentment is.

Happiness is a little more fleeting and perhaps exciting, but also less stable, in my eyes. Perhaps all that comes down to personal definition, though.

QuantumP

Smiling for no reason

nc19

Happiness is taking a dump without being interrupted

kunst nugget

DazMarz wrote: »

Many different interpretations of the song have been offered. Some writers have suggested that, in addition to the Peanuts reference, the "warm gun" could refer to Lennon's sexual desire for Yoko Ono and to his well-documented problems with heroin at the time of the recording of the White Album, where the gun represents a hypodermic syringe, although Lennon claimed to have snorted heroin rather than injected it. In his 1980 Playboy interview Lennon admitted to the double meaning of guns and sexuality but denied that the song had anything to do with drugs: "that was the beginning of my relationship with Yoko and I was very sexually oriented then". American and British censors were unhappy with the song, and it was banned by the BBC for its sexual symbolism.

-Courtesy of Wikipedia

Pronounce Happiness in a French accent and it's pretty obvious what the warm gun is. Some pretty full on junkie symbolism in the song though as well to be fair.

Zulu

With 2 kids under 20 months old? Happiness is 4 hours unbroken sleep.



...but in reality happiness is simply the ability to appreciate the natural beauty the makes up your everyday life.

xmasking

Happiness is Christmas lights.

walshb

Getting to the jacks just in time!:)

skallywag

Happiness is being able enough bodied to get yourself to the jacks!

Mister Vain

Happiness is taking off an uncomfortable shoe.

BadMoonRising

Happiness is...scratching an itch thats been at you for ages

Thargor

kunst nugget wrote: »

Pronounce Happiness in a French accent and it's pretty obvious what the warm gun is. Some pretty full on junkie symbolism in the song though as well to be fair.

I don't get it? What will the pronunciation of happiness change? The debate has always been about the gun part...

clintondaly

Once upon a time, a handsome man asked an extremely beautiful woman to marry him. The woman said NO, and the man lived happily ever after. He rode motorcycles and dated skinny long-legged full-breasted women and hunted and fished and raced cars and went to stripper bars and dated ladies half his age and drank whiskey, beer and tequila and could fart wherever and whenever he wanted to.
The End

kunst nugget

Thargor wrote: »

I don't get it? What will the pronunciation of happiness change? The debate has always been about the gun part...

Because it sounds like 'Appiness. A penis is a warm gun.

Lucena

mrty wrote: »

According to the Chinese happiness is having someone to love something to do and something to hope for. Personally I think its very simple when thought about and very true. What do you think?

It's not enough. I think you need a good circle of friends as well.

Aidric

Not for the first time, Murakami says it better than I could.

But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

Slattsy

Having all your Christmas shopping done !!

_Puma_

Happiness is mine/I'll show you what it's like/sometime?Revelino

kunst nugget

_Puma_ wrote: »

Happiness is mine/I'll show you what it's like/sometime?Revelino

Christ almighty, I haven't heard that song in years. That has made me happy…

Mesrine65

A Cohiba & a glass of 15 year old Redbreast

GaryDub31

Happiness is different for different people. All depends on your goals/standards etc.

People sometimes place too much emphasis on what happy means - me being one of them and I ended up being stupid and messed up one of the best things in my life. I realised that I was happy before but now may be too late!

Just look at what you have and be positive about things.

Beaucoupfish

Gratitude.

Lovely Bloke

A nice peaty single malt, rocking chair, stove flaming and silence.

My son laughing.

A goal rippling the back of the net.

mrty

mrty wrote: »

According to the Chinese happiness is having someone to love something to do and something to hope for. Personally I think its very simple when thought about and very true. What do you think?

Tracking happiness across philosophies is a hard thing to do. We can pay attention to one fortune cookie or another - but a meta view of it gives no really clear answers.

I think one of the reasons I promote mindfullness however is that one of the things I track is that the past is gone and the future is not here yet but we worry about it - yet there are ways and methods to find happiness in the current moment. Because the "now" is really the only point in time you have to work with.

And finding happiness in the "now" is a skill that is hard won - but one that goes against the fact that most of our species only manage to find happiness by repeating their satisfactions in a groundhog day fashion with the fear of it becoming boring. And true happiness simply has to be predicated by something more than forever placing our favorite ice cream on our lips.

But if you want a sound bite or fortune cooking - something my post above shows you I clearly suck at offering - then I think Happiness comes from a line that my faveorite poster on boards.ie has used in the past and I have stolen. When asked to go for a walk by his girlfriend and he lazily asked "Why where are we going?" she replied "The journey IS the destination" - I think happiness in life is accessible by applying that simple philosophy to life itself. When you realise in life that "The Journey is the destination" or in other words "Lifes worth comes from life itself" or "the point of life IS life".... a lot of happiness comes from re-writting your narrative around this.

This was the first post after the "mindfullness" drinking game loss. How am I doing?

h2s

Happiness is have the privacy to enjoy ripping a really good fart

fjollybxo

I think you gentleman may be intrigued by the watching of a documentary "happy" , on netflix. This is not on general happiness but more of the link between money and happiness.

Dr.Winston O'Boogie

It changes as you get older, used to be just having my own time, doing what I wanted, going out and having a laugh. But now when I write that it seems so basic, and although enjoyable never really felt like "happiness" in the traditional fashion.

Nowadays its finishing work, getting in the car and going home and seeing my 7 month old son and girlfriend. Every day I look forward to that moment.

In terms of more trivial stuff, a rake of pints and a decent sporting event/gig, out with friends, is hard to beat.

Oh and a decent resturant and a few glasses of wine with the other half.

A song that makes my spine tingle, happens less and less often as I get older but is still amazing when it does.

The simple things really I suppose.

Littlekittylou

Health and giggles!

eviltwin

A cold beer on a Friday night after a long week.

boobar

Knowing what's important and what isn't

H3llR4iser

mrty wrote: »

According to the Chinese happiness is having someone to love something to do and something to hope for. Personally I think its very simple when thought about and very true. What do you think?

The sound of a jet engine at TO/GA power and the feeling of the gear leaving the tarmac?

A bendy road, good weather, window rolled down, braking late, designing a perfect line in the corner and listening to the growl of the exhaust as you floor it coming out of it?

Knowing you can do whatever you want, whichever way you want to do it, whenever you feel like it?

Or, maybe eh, just enjoy whatever you like without obsessing about this "quest for happiness" everybody has a fixation with?