Are you happy?

chernobyl

I just find that happiness is never a constant, just small moments of it and theres always something to level you.
happiness is it a state of being or just some drug you body decides to give you just to tease you?


haggen das, does it do it?

DadaKopf

Emotons are so shifting from one moment to the other, from one intended thought or object to the other that 'happiness' is probably nothing more than the satisfaction of intention. But there's always another constellation of intentions after that to replace it.

If we were all happy we'd be bored - higher-level emotions like the human version of 'happiness' is dependent on lower-level functions successfully arranging themseives in virtue of interaction with the world and internal neurobiological architecture. Sometimes it's chemicals, sometimes its more esoteric, philosophical notions like intention, physical/mental fulfillment.

If nothing, happiness ebbs and flows and is completely relative.

seamus

I agree. You can't really say you are happy bacause you are happy all the time, but rather have a surplus of happy over sad, or if you are generally contented with your life as it stands, not wanting to make any major upheavals. I'm happy with that definition.

Gordon

If you want to be happy, you will be.

I feel happy just about all the time and I think that the world would be a much nicer place if everyone was too. If something gets you down, why be sad about it??

We all get to our equilibrium but the question is.. where do you want your equilibrium to be based?

Or drink milk... "she drinks milk and she's cool" !! have you seen that advert? That makes me happy, thank god, everyone isn't that shallow and plastic.

Life is infinite - choose where to go.

Gordon

Whats that Seamus?

seamus

Heh, deleted post. No idea what happened there!!! Uh oh getting OT very quickly on this thread. Someone post something relevant QUICK!!

Gordon

hoho.

OK, my philosophy is... there is always someone worse off than you. If you can't see the good things in your life then make the bad things better, it's difficult, but anything is possible.

Hobbes

"You can't be happy all the time. If you were you wouldn't be human, you would be a game show host" - fido dido.

Gordon

Are you sure about that Hobbes?

Maybe you would like a fifty fifty or ask the audience??

BoneCollector

Being Happy is always relative.

if you examine how you where feeling yesterday or an hour ago relative to how you are feeling now, you will be either happier than before or less happier.

Assuming your feeling happier then you are happy.
however, if your feeling the same today as you where yesterday then that i would class as "contentment"
So being content is a feeling of being comfortable with ones current situation.
Looking forward to an upcomming event will probably add to this contentment, giving an extra boost to your contentment and making you feel happy.
Being sad or depressed is obviously the opposite where relative to your previous feeling of happy, you are feeling less happy=SAD.
If you are lucky enough to go forward in life with each day you make an achievement, then most likely you are adding to your happy everytime and are now happier than the last.
One achievement could be.. waking up each morning, as the alternative is not something to lookforward.
So this is an achievment in itself.
You now have another day to lookforward to.
although this day may be filled with things you rather not have to deal with, which in turn takes away from your happy. Think of it as a learning experience, so later on when you dont have as many obstructions or distractions, you can look back relative to your current situation and feel alot better about yourself, once again giving you back your Happy.

Manach

My own view, being happy depends on knowing as closely as possible where one is positioned in the web of life, and where one is bound. Happiness can never be dependant on how others view you.

azezil

Well i know in general when i'm in and around college i'm happy... i really like it there but now i'm on work placement n it sux i'm border line depressed god dammit!

I know why; its because i don't know anyone here... all my friends are far away n the ppl here r tits ... nothing to do with me at all