Are You Happy?

[kouriichi]

Eh, i dont think about. its not a matter of "happy or sad", so much a matter of, "Could or could not give a sh*t".

Most days i wake up, go to the bathroom, get dressed ((sometimes in the previous day's clothes if i was forgetful about laundry)) and head off to work, all without spending more then 2 seconds looking in the mirror to make sure i wasnt covered in someones blood. ((if i did notice blood, i would shower, then wait to investigate until after work..... if i remembered that is.))

Other days, if theres a staff meeting, or i wanna suck up to my boss, i wake up half an hour early just so i can spend 20 minutes on making myself look like less of an insane slob because i want money to spend on things that make me an insane slob ((video games and cheesy poofs)).

In the end, it all really doesnt make a differance because my lover of four years ((whom i dated for 3 years over the internet)) thinks im the cutest man on the planet and loves my amazing sense of humor and insanely awesome dimples.

So i guess you COULD sum it up as happy if you wanted, but i perfure to stick to the neutral terms such as "decent" or "fair". i feel decently fair about my skin and life.

 

[John the Gamer]

Yes. There are some things I would change about my body if I could, but they're not that big.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

Nope... can't feel happy when my mind feels empty...

 

[Ramin 123]

As odd as it sounds, I'm happiest when I'm doing exercise haha. Football is a great example, but generally I find being selfish helps a lot (as long as it doesn't hurt others). Happiness does tend to find me in that way. Oh and to add to the clichéd Irishman, nothings better than a cold pint of the black stuff after a really hard day...heaven.

So yes I'm generally happy enough in my own skin, as long as I keep a trim figure

 

[Jewrean]

I'm happy being me.
Career-wise I am extremely depressed.
Relationship-wise I am fairly happy.
Health and Well being-wise I am somewhat happy.

 

[6unn3r]

Not really, but its nothing a new job and a girlfriend wouldn't solve.

 

[Blobpie]

 

[Littlee300]

I've been unhappy for quite some time for no apparent reason. A while back, I began reading the 道德經 (Tao Te Ching), which has amazing insight into "the Way," essentially, the entirety of everything in the Universe, or what is...a difficult concept to explain, especially since nobody apparently can grasp it.

Anyway, since reading it and other works, I've come to be "happier," or at least "contented" or disconnected from extreme emotional difference. Especially, I found Chapter 2 (Abstraction) extremely enlightening and helpful:

When beauty is abstracted
Then ugliness has been implied;
When good is abstracted
Then evil has been implied.

So alive and dead are abstracted from nature,
Difficult and easy abstracted from progress,
Long and short abstracted from contrast,
High and low abstracted from depth,
Song and speech abstracted from melody,
After and before abstracted from sequence.

The sage experiences without abstraction,
And accomplishes without action;
He accepts the ebb and flow of things,
Nurtures them, but does not own them,
And lives, but does not dwell.

（天下皆知美之為美斯惡已皆知善之為善斯不善已有無相生難易相成長短相形高下相盈音聲相和前後相隨恆也是以聖人處無為之事行不言之教萬物作而弗始生而弗有為而弗恃功成而不居夫唯弗居是以不去）

So, I guess I agree with [user]OakTaooper[/user] that happiness is a myth. We create happiness and sadness, instead of just accepting things as they are. To introduce categories is to make handling issues more difficult.

Therefore, I'm becoming more contented and accepting, but still not completely able to discard "happiness" and "unhappiness," which means I'm not completely happy. Ugh.

Thanks for sharing that, it gave me a "Fuck you sadness, I am having fun until i die" mood

 

[crudus]

I am very unhappy at the moment. Sure there are redeeming qualities but not that much. Though whatever. I'll live.

Strangely enough, I turned seventeen today and now I feel really uncomfortable in my own skin. I feel like I now have to actually start planning beyond next year..

I always feel weird when I realize I am older on my birthday. It is even weirder on the birthdays like 13, 16, 18, 20, 21(teenager, driving, adult, not a teenager, beer).

P.S. Happy Birthday

 

[Wardnath]

This is easily, without a doubt, the best I've felt in over two years.

 

[i am nobody]

No.

 

[Ashcrexl]

i would say i'm miserable, but also an optimist and cant help being cheerful. so, uh, no? maybe?

 

[Julianking93]

Strangely enough, I turned seventeen today and now I feel really uncomfortable in my own skin. I feel like I now have to actually start planning beyond next year..

When I turned 17 last month, I felt exactly the same. Weird. Now I feel like I should start actually planning for my life >>

Anyway, not really. Some days I feel great, others I feel like shit. I wish I had more of those "good days"

 

[AngloDoom]

I am happy, if not content, in most respects. The parts that I am merely content about, I am slowly changing so I can be happy with them.

Overall, life is very much goooood.

 

[Sacman]

Strangely enough, I turned seventeen today and now I feel really uncomfortable in my own skin. I feel like I now have to actually start planning beyond next year..

When I turned 17 last month, I felt exactly the same. Weird. Now I feel like I should start actually planning for my life >>

Anyway, not really. Some days I feel great, others I feel like shit. I wish I had more of those "good days"

When I was 17, and even now actually, I didn't care at all, whatsoever... I felt exactly the same as I did the year before...<.<

I know what you mean the good days of just lounging around doing nothing seemed to have just passed me by...<.<

 

[Julianking93]

When I was 17, and even now actually, I didn't care at all, whatsoever... I felt exactly the same as I did the year before...<.<

I know what you mean the good days of just lounging around doing nothing seemed to have just passed me by...<.<

Not what I meant, but yeah, I don't want those days to go away.

I just meant my mood fluctuates a lot. I think I may be bipolar :/

 

[FalloutJack]

Ahem...

 

[Eumersian]

Strangely enough, I turned seventeen today and now I feel really uncomfortable in my own skin. I feel like I now have to actually start planning beyond next year..

Ugh, been there.

OT: I am very comfortable with myself. It is my current environment that I am worried about.

 

[Sacman]

When I was 17, and even now actually, I didn't care at all, whatsoever... I felt exactly the same as I did the year before...<.<

I know what you mean the good days of just lounging around doing nothing seemed to have just passed me by...<.<

Not what I meant, but yeah, I don't want those days to go away.

I just meant my mood fluctuates a lot. I think I may be bipolar :/

Oh sorry, read your post wrong...
Hey, everyone has mood swings... I tend to fluctuate between normal Sacman and Sacman where
my low self esteem hits some kind of quantum singularity and all I want to do is sit in a closet and cut my self for the rest of eternity...
I don't, obviously, but you know what I mean...<.<

 

[Julianking93]

When I was 17, and even now actually, I didn't care at all, whatsoever... I felt exactly the same as I did the year before...<.<

I know what you mean the good days of just lounging around doing nothing seemed to have just passed me by...<.<

Not what I meant, but yeah, I don't want those days to go away.

I just meant my mood fluctuates a lot. I think I may be bipolar :/

Oh sorry, read your post wrong...
Hey, everyone has mood swings... I tend to fluctuate between normal Sacman and Sacman where
my low self esteem hits some kind of quantum singularity and all I want to do is sit in a closet and cut my self for the rest of eternity...
I don't, obviously, but you know what I mean...<.<

I'm going to think that I do and ignore my typical reaction to be concerned with the cutting thing

Anyway, yes, everyone has mood swings, but I actually think I'm a depressive bipolar. I can be happy all day but one little thing can set me off and I'll end up just crying myself to sleep that night ;~;