Wheres the positivity in After Hours ??

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Is there anyone out there whos happy even just a little ?

I think I got that job - I am the token happy guy Or at least that is an impression I might get from the "Is Life Good" thread we just had.

Strangely in an internet chat room that I help moderate recently I got berated for being too happy. I do not really go around telling people how happy I am - or how great I am - or how wonderful anything is. But it seems to come across sometimes.

And a faction of 4 or 5 users got together and complained to me about this. They said my being unhappy all the time was quite unpalatable (though they did not phrase it in such language - I am sure you know what chat room speak is like).

They essentially told me that having something NOT going right in my life - some pain or suffering or misery - makes people more "real" and more what people want to be around. And when someone is too happy it almost makes them feel bad about life and themselves - as if they are to feel inferior because of it.

They could not really lay out what they were trying to say clearly but I think I distilled it out anyway. They knew what they were trying to say but were not getting it across too well. But I wonder as a thought experiment if we had a forum here that was happy slappy joy joy - what would the content be like? Would it be readable or monstrously boring and twee?

To move it to the more deeply philosophical approach - It has been debated in the spheres that tend to debate such things - whether humans actually do need pain and suffering and turmoil and strife in order to strive and prosper to some degree. An idea that was adopted into some of the dialogue of The Matrix - where Agent Smith suggested that the machines - in an effort of compassion - had constructed a Matrix fully of joy and happiness and bliss and paradise - and it simply did not work. Humans destroyed it - themselves - or both. Our species simply did not function when happy.

The weather though - that one I have never understood. I have never classed weather as good or bad. I love it all. I quite love that old mantra that goes something like "There is no such thing as bad weather - just a bad choice of outfit to go out in it in". I go for a run every morning and I enjoy doing so as much in beaming sunshine - as I do in pelting rain.

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Chicken and egg my friend. Did the smile get the honeys or did the honeys cause the smile. We may never know!:D

I - I mean what I want to say is - I mean - errrr WHAT?

I do want to keep Bees and make my own honey - if that has any relevance Time and space is an issue though.