Do you believe you are as happy as you want to be?

United States
January 26, 2010 9:54am CST
I have been reading a lot of books lately that are telling me that happiness is a state of mind. If you think you are happy you are, or you can train your brain to think you are no matter what your life circumstances are. Do you believe this is true? Is a positive happy outlook all it takes to be happy? Have you changed your own perception of life to make a difference in your own outlook? I'd love to hear from your.
3 responses
@Torrs13 (217)
• United States
27 Jan 10
I agree that we can establish a happy mindset, which then makes us feel more happy each day. If we are constantly dwelling on the negative aspects of our lives, then it is almost impossible to experience happiness, or at least a high amount of it. Now, there are times when it's hard to be happy... we were meant to experience all types of emotions... but I do think that thinking more positively and having the desire to experience happiness can help an individual feel better. I personally decided to perform a paradigm shift in my life after taking a college class. I started seeing the better side of things and realizing that I have a lot of control over my mind and what I think about. This world is full of letdowns but now I can see the positive side of even the most negative things.
• United States
28 Jan 10
But if you really think of it, the world is only a let down if you let it get you down. I'm really happy to hear about your shift of mindset. I really do believe that the way you view things effects your own true happiness. And this is coming from someone who a year ago would have sworn that nothing worse could happen to her. Thank you for sharing.
@nautilus33 (1827)
26 Jan 10
Hi there! No, i don't believe and I even know that I am not as happy as I want me to be! maybe i am happy with somethings in my life, but I am not happy with my life as whole! I have so many things i want to do, which will make me feel really happy and also I need some more supports for the people, who i love, so that I can feel a little bit more happy!
• India
26 Jan 10
we are happy as much as we want to be. being happy is not so easy. we are greedy, we want more, we are never satisfied, we a re jealous of others, we want to earn more than our neighbor. hence we are never happy. a true happy person is he who is happy with what he is got and is proud of that. happiness is just as a relationship you see, if you marry a girl or fall in love with her just because she is "beautiful from outside" then you're surely going to fall in a pit in the later stage of a relationship, on the other hand, if you look for inner beauty in a girl then you'll keep falling in love with everytime. happiness is just like that, see the inner beauty in everything and cherish it.