Are you REALLY happy...?
By touchnshine
@touchnshine (2821)
India
July 22, 2007 12:34pm CST
I was driving along through a local city today and looking at all the roadworks for new roads, better designs, billboards advertising bigger, better and newer things. I was thinking about life in general... and my current situation. So I was wondering what exactly it is that would make me happy...? I can't figure it out. It could be to share my life with someone. It could be to have more money. It could be to have more free time. Blablabla.
It then occurred to me that we're never happy. Human beings are never happy really. When we have exactly all that we wish for... something else comes along which is the focus of what drives us. So, it occurred to me that all this building, advertising, reaching the inner human self-gratification psyche.. that's all it is. If we're happy with what we have... then why do we need to look further for other things..?
Or it could just be me having a weird thinking-too-much day
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6 responses
@funguruz (11)
• India
23 Jul 07
Being Happy is not a permanent.
It Depends upon the situations you go in with.
That means if you experience Bad Experiences then, you will be SAD...
and if you turn in Good Experiences, You will be Happy..
Also Happiness is not depends upon, how you are rich or poor..
Maybe poor peoples are Happier than Rich, because rich mens always fear about robbing etc...
So Enjoy your life, whether it is Happy or SAD..
Thanks
@subathra (3519)
• India
23 Jul 07
Happiness is attained by everyone throughout their life as it comes and goes often.Never one can expect happiness to be with them always without experiance sad part of life.we express happiness through smiles and share it with others.
to keep our lives moving we need happiness so that we can live with good health.We expect more improvement in life which happiness alone cannot give..Iam happy at this moment but dont know what is going to happen the other minute..life is not stable so enjoy every moment and dont let sadness to occupy you.Its what i follow..
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
23 Jul 07
Preeti, HI!
Happiness in an inner feeling. For example, I can be happy to see your responses/discussions/comments....but any other fellow may not feel like the same....for everyone...yardsticks for feeling happy are different. I agree, that we always feel for more....greed of getting more and more never ends......it is the human nature.
If at any stage of our life we arrive at a conclusion that .... God has given us enough...and we be thankful to God....at that moment, we would start feeling happy and contended and satisfied.
Deepak
@asahibza (388)
• Canada
23 Jul 07
That is right. Sometimes I am happy and sometimes I am not.
In my case I think I will be quite happy if I had control over my time, my work, and my life. Unfortunately I am not completely in control.
The more free I am, the more happy I become. I think I am close to a stage where I will be independent and having complete freedom. I hope I will be happy at that time.
What makes one miserable. Bad and boring jobs, lack of adequate money, family feuds, loss of someone, social problems, health related problems etc.
There are certain things on which one can have no control. Because of this and the way human beings have been made, it is difficult to be always happy.
@nonew3 (1941)
• United States
22 Jul 07
It seems that happiness is very much elusive to much of the world. There seems to be a real art in being content with what you have, and with having a simple life. True happiness cannot be found in having more and more stuff, and even in having better and better stuff. Sometimes I long for simpler days.
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@angel_of_charm (4134)
• Philippines
24 Jul 07
as i read the book purpose driven life the author once said..people would never get satisfaction and happiness in this world for the true happiness lies in the paradise called hevean..and that this world is our temporary shelter where in we feel pain and harship..once we get to our real home which is hevean we will feel the feeling of contentment and joy we always wanted..
i am not happy with my life considering everything thats happening in my life..and i guess no one is..
