Is happiness possible?

@ESKARENA1 (18261)
October 19, 2007 3:03am CST
Is happiness really possible or is it simply an illusion that we use to get through the day? Can it not be seen as simply the period when the missery stops?
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@zidlore (251)
• Philippines
19 Oct 07
Yes, it is really possible. I believe it is the other way around. Misery is the period when the happiness stops.
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
19 Oct 07
I think this is the old dilemma, i can also see life that way, thankyou for your response
• Philippines
26 Oct 07
I think it is possible if you choose happiness over loneliness. Even you have many burdens in life and still think positive you still choose happiness over loneliness. if you help others and you know you have problems too and you need help but you choose to help them instead, you choose happiness over loneliness. If you still think there is always a light at the end of the tunnel , happiness is still possible.
@magikrose (5429)
• United States
19 Oct 07
The thing with happiness is it is diffrent for everyone. For one person having material things makes them happy for people like me it is the love of my family that makes me happy. I have always been told and to a degree believe that we need unpleasant things to fully know what makes us happy. You really cant haf the good without the bad which in turn you cant truly know what makes you happy if you dont have a bit of misery.
@fizz11 (69)
• United States
21 Oct 07
I'm not entirely sure, but I carry with me all the moments when I felt I was in connection with what I call "eternity" - where everything seemed to be in the exact place it was meant to be, those moments when it all makes momentary sense and it is flowing even when I know it won't last. I know I have many more of the moments ahead. ;)
@rb200406 (1824)
• India
20 Oct 07
It is a stae of mind.When you mind feels that you are not happy you feel that your are sad.When that feeling goes you think tha you are happy.Yes it is time when our misery stops.
@derek_a (10873)
19 Oct 07
Yes, what it this elusive thing we seem to pursue? Surely, if we are pursuing happiness we are actualising the reality of unhappiness, for how can one exist without the other? Is this just society's con that when I get "better" I will be happy? Better at what? Having a nice home, partner, car, career and so on and so on? Are we not in a state of resistance as we reach for happiness? Resistance to what is so? Isn't what is so, neutral, neither happy nor unhappy? Sorry for the Zen-like questions :-) The way I see it, is that if we are constantly looking for something different and "better", we are not really living in the moment of now, and affirming that we are unhappy. If we focus and be in the moment, it is what it is. Seeking produces more seeking, so how do we seek without seeking? Find that answer and I think we'll be happy.. not society's happiness, but our own spiritual happiness. But we had better not seek it! LOL
@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
19 Oct 07
I do believe too it is the other way around. You can stop misery if you choose to be happy. I think misery is a feeling that you could eliminate if you would choose the other way.