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Are you happy? If not, why?

  • 08-08-2016 9:02am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭


    Nothing solves the Monday blues better than existential angst! Do you enjoy your life? If so, why? If not, why? Bad job, love life, money, etc.

    Are you happy? 91 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    100% 91 votes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I am happy. I love my family, I have the best dogs ever, I'm happy and secure, I enjoy my job, i earn enough to let me enjoy myself and life and I had pancakes for my breakfast.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    I am happy. I love my family, I have the best dogs ever, I'm happy and secure, I enjoy my job, i earn enough to let me enjoy myself and life and I had pancakes for my breakfast.

    14077 posts in 3 years
    Happy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzkS8k5iacw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    No I'm not happy. Now f*ck off and leave me alone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    I am clapping my hands right now...so yes?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Is this a middle management training course?
    Please go away.


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  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've put far too much of my spare time (15+ months) and all my hopes and dreams into a website / software that by now, I despise working on. And that's what I'm doing right now.

    When I'm not at this, I'm happy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Your Face wrote: »
    Is this a middle management training course?
    Please go away.

    How are you gonna enter the thread just to bitch about the thread topic and tell the OP to go away from his own thread? You clearly aren't very happy....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    I have a migraine and I'm still working. And I just had a talk with my boss about the fact that I was expected to get certified in an extremely complex software package nobody in the company has or uses (I have a "demo" copy that is not fully functional), without being sent to any actual training, and on a tight deadline, and while doing my regular support work. I refuse to accept blame for their missing the deadline because they're too tight to pay for any formal training ("you can learn it from online tutorials") or a full copy of the software. My boss said, "This is really important to the company". Not important enough to devote more than the occasional spare time of one person who you won't adequately support, equip, or train, eh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,753 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    I woke up this morning to find that I am still breathing

    At my age that's always a good start to the day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    I woke up this morning to find that I am still breathing

    At my age that's always a good start to the day.
    Jesus, you must be ancient.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,753 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Jesus, you must be ancient.

    Speak up sonny


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭PaddyWilliams


    Compared to 9 or 10 months ago, I'm ecstatic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,209 ✭✭✭Cypher_sounds


    No, I'm in work.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Yes, I'm happy. Great friends, great dog, great partner, college is nearly finished, and I've been gifted a trip to the UK next month. All good here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Compared to 9 or 10 months ago, I'm ecstatic.
    Makes it sound like you were pregnant:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭deaddonkey15


    I'm miserable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    How are you gonna enter the thread just to bitch about the thread topic and tell the OP to go away from his own thread? You clearly aren't very happy....

    Perhaps it's the bad grammar and simplistic questions.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Speedwell wrote: »
    I have a migraine and I'm still working. And I just had a talk with my boss about the fact that I was expected to get certified in an extremely complex software package nobody in the company has or uses (I have a "demo" copy that is not fully functional), without being sent to any actual training, and on a tight deadline, and while doing my regular support work. I refuse to accept blame for their missing the deadline because they're too tight to pay for any formal training ("you can learn it from online tutorials") or a full copy of the software. My boss said, "This is really important to the company". Not important enough to devote more than the occasional spare time of one person who you won't adequately support, equip, or train, eh.
    So are you happy though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭PaddyWilliams


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Makes it sound like you were pregnant:D

    Not pregnant (which would be a miracle itself!), but did get rid of a load that made me feel lighter! :D

    Edit : No matter what way I phrase this, it's gonna be open to interpretation!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭oide10


    No, not happy. Both my parents are unwell and currently it's costing me a fortune to look after them. Plus I have 2 small children to look after as well. The worry is really stressing me out.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Not pregnant (which would be a miracle itself!), but did get rid of a load that made me feel lighter! :D

    Edit : No matter what way I phrase this, it's gonna be open to interpretation!!

    If it took you 10 months to have a decent sh1te, I'd recommend Senokot


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour. But heaven knows I'm miserable now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭PaddyWilliams


    If it took you 10 months to have a decent sh1te, I'd recommend Senokot

    As my edit said, open to interpretation!

    No, I unburdened myself about 9 or 10 months ago. It changed me as a person and made me feel better about myself and life.

    Hopefully that finally puts it to rest!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Your Face wrote: »
    Perhaps it's the bad grammar and simplistic questions.

    God, you and Lexi are insatiable. I ask a simple question - too simple. I ask a complex question - too convoluted. My grammar's certainly no worse than the standard here on AH.

    There's a very simple solution. Instead of effing up the flow of the thread by being a whiny little naysayer, why don't you just stay out of my thread? You're like the ****ing earthworm in James and the Giant Peach who complains for the sake of complaining.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    So are you happy though

    LOL. The chuckle helped lift the gloom a bit. I do work from home, so there's that. And it's pretty and sunny out, and my year-old tabby kitten is sitting in my office window looking down at the green area across the street from my house, on which there are six starlings, three large crows, and a lost-looking seagull. Another seagull zoomed my window and the kitten almost fell off the sill. :)

    Text from boss: "i have to go get car fixed don't know how long will take can you write blog post about iot/bi pub before lunch" fml... that is, she wants me to write an article (she is never satisfied with one or a few paragraphs) for the company website's blog about the Internet of Things and how it relates to Business Intelligence. She had a week to do it and didn't do it, and now she wants it in an hour. Jesus, I'm good, but not that good. Nevertheless I'll do my best to have it out before 1:30, because I am that good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    No, I'm in work.

    Same.

    Life would be perfect if i didn't have to go to ****ing stupid work for a huge chunk of my life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    oide10 wrote: »
    No, not happy. Both my parents are unwell and currently it's costing me a fortune to look after them. Plus I have 2 small children to look after as well. The worry is really stressing me out.
    Jesus, I'm sorry to hear that. You sound like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. I hope you have someone looking after you too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I'm in a better position than I was 12 months ago and, if things work out in the next short while, I could be in a far better place 12 months from now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    No, I can't remember the last time I was happy to be honest.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    failinis wrote: »
    No, I can't remember the last time I was happy to be honest.
    A lot of stress, and some of this will never leave me.

    I know these feels.....:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    I know these feels.....:(

    Yeah me too, anxiety overwhelmed me in my mid-40s and, since I'm an American and we are shameless about such things, I found a good therapist who taught me some mental coping tricks that most people know and I had never learned, and some simple ways to clear the mind and body of built-up trauma and stress, and a tactic or two for telling an overactive mind to STFU. I am not good at using those things when my head is trying to play Harrison Bergeron tricks on me. But you guys make me want to invite you over to bake cookies. Is 50 too young to be in grandmother mode, I ask you? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    I had to think hard about what answer I was going to give. I decided that I don't actually know, as odd as that may sound. I guess I'm not but couldn't tell you why, or what I'd change. It's like there's often an underlying sadness, even when I'm doing things I enjoy or spending time with people I love.

    Hmm.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Speedwell wrote: »
    Yeah me too, anxiety overwhelmed me in my mid-40s and, since I'm an American and we are shameless about such things, I found a good therapist who taught me some mental coping tricks that most people know and I had never learned, and some simple ways to clear the mind and body of built-up trauma and stress, and a tactic or two for telling an overactive mind to STFU. You guys make me want to invite you over to bake cookies. Is 50 too young to be in grandmother mode, I ask you? :D
    Cognitive behavioural therapy never really did much for me. I'm 19, so you can be my grandmother if you want. Just er..... include TSMGUY in the ole' will:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Sariah


    Am off work for 5 weeks. Just found out at the weekend I got 1st place in Ireland and 8 th world wide out of 26,000 in my accounting finals. Have a reasonable chance of a promotion in a few weeks time. Kids and family are healthy. House is grand. Marriage is ok. I'm relatively happy except I need to give the house a thorough clean over the next few days. Also I just got a cheque in the post for 180 this morning totally unexpected a refund from vhi even though haven't been a member for 6 years. Will cash it quick in case it's an error. Think I might spend it in ikea new stuff might look like I cleaned the house more than I could be bothered to atm.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Sariah wrote: »
    Am off work for 5 weeks. Just found out at the weekend I got 1st place in Ireland and 8 th world wide out of 26,000 in my accounting finals. Have a reasonable chance of a promotion in a few weeks time. Kids and family are healthy. House is grand. Marriage is ok. I'm relatively happy except I need to give the house a thorough clean over the next few days. Also I just got a cheque in the post for 180 this morning totally unexpected a refund from vhi even though haven't been a member for 6 years. Will cash it quick in case it's an error. Think I might spend it in ikea new stuff might look like I cleaned the house more than I could be bothered to atm.
    Top 0.03% in the world, Jesus! Well done!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Cognitive behavioural therapy never really did much for me. I'm 19, so you can be my grandmother if you want. Just er..... include TSMGUY in the ole' will:D

    Oh, today the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. (The flesh is willing if the spirits are strong, however. Preferably expensive Scotch.)

    Seriously though, EFT "Tapping", while it sounds remarkably fatuous at first glance, really does work. Ignore the stupid mysticism that its practitioners favor. I actually did learn it from a stupid mystic, but my therapist was a wise older woman who made it her field of study. I teach it to frightened folks in the airport; in my opinion it distracts the brain and body long enough for it to metabolise and resolve the "bad" biochemistry associated with panic and stress. But its effects last a long time.

    If you have a kitten, like the tabby who just crawled onto my desk in front of my keyboard for a cuddle, that works too. <3 Nothing is totally bad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Tsmguy is like the happy police, determining if your reason is good enough for being happy or not. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭bluestrattos


    I'm happy, very happy actually! For the last couple of weeks, my life has slowly become better and better :)
    And because of that, I keep thinking, that "sh*t is about to hit the fan" because, you know yourself, if everything is going great in your life, something very wrong is about to happen, but until then, I'm a (very) happy man :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    I'm Mick McCarthy's baby.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Tsmguy is like the happy police, determining if your reason is good enough for being happy or not. :D

    Better than being the miserable bastard police, entering threads and trying to preemptively shut them down by being snarky:(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    Cut it out, you two, Grandma has a headache. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭Shint0


    Right now in this moment I'm happy but in the general scheme of things could be much better but I still dare to dream. Happiness is elusive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    I'm not unhappy most of the time and that's good enough for me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    TSMGUY wrote: »

    In your best David Attenborough please:
    The hunter, having carefully prepared the trap, now lies in wait. The occasional flick of the ears is the only sign of impatience; and suddenly with an explosive burst of speed he lunges from cover and overwhelms the unsuspecting poster. A quick check of the profile page and the hunter crushes his prey with his most lethal weapon, the Burgundy clip. It's all over in a matter of seconds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,383 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Meh. For a Monday. Which is good I guess.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    I have reasons to be happy (job, family, home, health) but I'm fúcking miserable. Mostly because I am not using my hard earned qualifications in any way and I feel like I am stuck in a rut. I also feel like I am living a lie romantically and cant see a way out. The biological clock is hammering away but I haven't met the right person yet. Sometimes cant believe I wanted to grow up. :mad: Jeez OP I was fine until I typed this now I feel blue :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I have reasons to be happy (job, family, home, health) but I'm fúcking miserable. Mostly because I am not using my hard earned qualifications in any way and I feel like I am stuck in a rut. I also feel like I am living a lie romantically and cant see a way out. The biological clock is hammering away but I haven't met the right person yet. Sometimes cant believe I wanted to grow up. :mad: Jeez OP I was fine until I typed this now I feel blue :P

    Yeah, that's what happens when you focus on negative stuff. Go look at silly pictures of kitties on the Internet for a while until you get your mojo back a bit. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭EICVD


    Nope, life is just too depressing & stressful to enjoy it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,733 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Yes, happy.

    Life's not perfect, but the things that aren't as good as they could be are all things that are within my power to improve.


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