here is a start
Okay Sheh, you mentioned you wanted to strike up conversation on this thing again cause everyone is in different areas and this is a good connection point. But I haven’t seen anything. So here is a really basic question but one that I have mulled over for the past week and often don’t like the answer I seem to come up with, so try to force myself to rethink and hopefully come to a new conclusion.
What does it take to make you happy?
Please don’t give the typical answer or one that will impress. And think about it for at least a day before you answer. And no Tyler, not hot chicks.
I would have to say all I need is… I still don’t like my answer, so it will come later.
- originally posted by steve-o
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happiness is an emotional state of being. my intention is not to sound sarcastic but why not ask yourself what makes you sad or apathetic? emotionally charged questions will naturally be reciprocated with another emotion. my point is, perhaps if the question were posed without emotion, the answer would come easier…or at least an answer you like.
the thing with happiness is that, if we like it or not, it is an emotion. so anything we associate with happiness will automatically stir up thoughts, feelings, or memories that we had a good emotional reaction too. i think that\\\\\\\’s the point. to make us think about what it takes to make us happy, and then why. buying new jeans, hanging with friends, working on a good project. what\\\\\\\’s all behind that. and maybe i\\\\\\\’m more of a realist, trying to figure out life as it is now. i still don\\\\\\\’t know what really makes me happy or why. and i probably will never really absolutely know. though i do know that there is some merit in being content with where you are currently in life. when i say content, i don\\\\\\\’t mean complacent. knowing that life is good, and wanting to live it every day, that definitely says something. i guess you can define that as happiness, i don\\\\\\\’t know.
no offense \'passerby\', but you sound a lot like Spock… removing emotion from analytical dialogue is pretty much impossible, and in itself inaccurate in its results. happiness is too easily dismissed. why do people think sadness is more valid \'emotion\'. happiness is good, its so good. i enjoy happiness more than sorrow. sorrow is a bastard who doesn\'t lie to me, so i can respect that. but happiness is just sweet. and it is just as valid as any other feeling or experience.
From hot ladies to food� nice tyler. :) Well, steve, to be honest, I read your post about 10 minutes ago, so I haven\\\’t given it the requested day of thought, sorry, but, I\\\’m responding anyway. I have decided, of late, that happiness is tied up with thankfulness…and maybe a bit with struggle. I have felt so blessed since coming to Vancouver. It\\\’s hard for me to even describe the change. I feel like I\’ve started to see things with new eyes (granted, I have started to look a little harder). Because things aren\\\’t handed to me so easily here as they are at home, it is easier to be thankful for the smallest of things. That, it seems, has turned itself over into happiness. I was talking with a friend about it last night. He was the one that helped me clarify this. My thankfulness has lead to a certain amount of joy in my life that wasn\\\’t present in Edmonton because I took things for granted. It seems to me that we are asked to live in an upside down kind of manner, dying to live, giving to receive, and in the same way, I am learning that thankfulness brings joy, instead of the other way around.