Happiness

@sunil_008 (1269)
India
February 13, 2009 6:58am CST
Hi all, we all in this world are very much familiar with the word called happiness.well,what is happiness is all about?it is different for different people.some gets happiness from doing social work,helping others giving a smile to others.some gets happiness in achieving his/her goal in life.some says he/she's happy because they are earning more than their friends/relatives. well,so, my point is where this happiness lies?in the money?in the social work?in god? i say i am happy because what i wanted i got that. for me a cup of tea can also makes me happy. i have a friend who is never gets happy even after doing so well in life. so, i just wanted from the people here that how you describe happiness in your terms.and what are the other factors that really affects the happiness.
5 responses
JenInTN
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
14 Feb 09
It doesn't take much to make me happy. I am happy waking up on the weekend and having the day to do with what I want. I think that thre are a lot of things that can bring us down if we let them but taking pleasures in little things and appriciating what we have can help us in enjoying our lives. I hate it when i see people who are always sad or angry. I think that they are missing out.
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sunil_008
@sunil_008 (1269)
• India
14 Feb 09
Hi, you are so right about them. I don't understand why people keep holding such things in them.i think sadness and anger can only make a person weak. and happiness is such a thing which comes even from anything. and happy people live longer stay healthy work harder and more than those who always keep their shell closed with fear,anger and sadness.
sunil_008
@sunil_008 (1269)
• India
14 Feb 09
that's so nice to know. I usually had an idea about the beautiful women that they are very greedy about everything. so they don't do anything without calculation. and, they are more materialstic than natural...
JenInTN
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
14 Feb 09
I don't know how people can stand to live with so much anger and sadness. I wouldn't have lasted a day if I had so much of that. I'm the type of person that needs to see a silver lining and enjoy a simple thing.
pinkzebragirl
@messageme (2821)
• United States
14 Feb 09
Happiness to me is spending time with my family (when the kids are not fighting) happy is when I reach goals I have set for myself. Lot's of things make me happy, but now that you have me think about what actually makes me happy I can't think of anything but those two things. Strange, I know more than those things make me happy.
sunil_008
@sunil_008 (1269)
• India
14 Feb 09
Hi i didn't get the other half of you replay though...what are those 2 things that you are talking about...and if you are happy in almost everything then what else you need in life...we all are running after it and its running ahead of us all the time...
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pinkzebragirl
@messageme (2821)
• United States
14 Feb 09
the two things was spending time with my family and goals I have achieved. WHat else I need? Everything, I am a woman!! No really there are always news things in life that come up, we just choose whether they make us happy or they make us sad. Happiness depends on your own out look of life!
sunil_008
@sunil_008 (1269)
• India
15 Feb 09
Oh that's sotrue. i liked it. since you have aloving family and it looks like that you are not very ambitious either. so, things with family certainly will make you happy.and i personally believe that women have an extra sense i would call it the 6th sense.so they can smell from distance what they are going to get from it...:)
vicky30
@vicky30 (4766)
• India
14 Feb 09
In my life happiness means keeping the environment clean and making others happy.For me happiness is also fulfilling the dreams of my life.If my workplace is pressure free with a good salary then also i will be happy.Also traveling to far places and relaxing my mind is another way of being happy.
sunil_008
@sunil_008 (1269)
• India
14 Feb 09
HI , i think you have mentioned quite a few things here. almost all that someone needs to complete his atmosphere strees free. but we all know that nobody is getting them all in that fashion. so my point to you is if you are not getting all that you have said. then are going to call yourself a happy person?
duomai
@duomai (25)
• India
15 Feb 09
Happiness doesn't mean the absence of sorrow.Happiness is meant to go along with sorrows.suppose there so many sucessful people in this world having so much money,possesion in their life,still they are looking for the definition of happiness desparately in their life yet even a peasant man can sometime live happily through out their life.So i believe there is so much happiness as well as sorrows prevailing in this world,and no one is able to resist from that effect.It comes naturally like storm and rain.
sunil_008
@sunil_008 (1269)
• India
15 Feb 09
Hi my dear friend all rain don't come with rain and all men don't seems to be happy with all the way. though happiness comes from within,but its so different for us all. ask a mother she will be happy with different ones than that of a girl. ask a man he will shows some different reasons too... but as long as we are feeling happy that's a great no matter what we are having from...happy my lotting...
benny128
@benny128 (3615)
•
13 Feb 09
happiness in my opinion is within, I run a very successful online business and help other people to earn money but the most happiness I get is from seeing my fantastic 3 kids wake up in the morning or when they come in from school and I get knocked over by them as they give me the biggest hug everyday that to me is happiness.
sunil_008
@sunil_008 (1269)
• India
13 Feb 09
Hi, so you have found happiness in your kids.but, to secure their future you must be working hard on the other side. sometimes you come across problems which you shouldn't have since you have so much responsiblity on your shoulders and you have to do all that as a father. don't you ever get distracted from the happiness that you are getting from them...