Are you....?

[bobajob]

I was in the same sitch 2 months back, got laid off outta nowhere then caught flu & was struggling to get back into that line of work due to lack of experience, all fairly good reasons for being unhappy, no? So I started Microsoft MCDST cert & found an employer in London(bit of a commute)who will hire me provided I pass the exam. Fuck this moping around being poor. I miss alcohol!
Bloody skint & I will have to get a loan to pay for the feckin' train season ticket at first but my family will thank me & I will be in a job I love. Then maybe I can work towards getting a goddamn driving license.

 

[neoontime]

Well other than the constant depression.... I"m FINALLLY graduating so FUCK YEAH!!

 

[piinyouri]

I'm happy enough.
And certainly overall happier than I was 5-6 years ago.

 

[Timberwolf0924]

if I was any happier I'd have to be twins!

 

[Creator002]

Ever since I was 18 or so, I've been one long-lasting ray of sunshine. Sure, I've had my down days since then, but I'm usually over it within a few hours.
What's even better is that things are actually going uphill for me at the moment. Had a job interview which I felt went really well and, on June 1, I can finally fix my gaming PC that's been out of commision for 2 or so months.

 

[miketehmage]

I'm bored. And a tad lonely. And extremely unfit.

But aside from that my life is pretty ace thanks for asking OP.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

Im not quite sure.

Currently im in a degree I don't like, that I changed to from another degree I didn't like, and Im sure I wont like whatever other degree I pick. I would just get a job, but I tried that for quite a while. Noone really wants to hire an inexperienced worker.

The only things I can think of to do is either try get a job when noone wants to hire me, or to do a degree I don't really want to do.

Apart from that, Im a lot more fit and healthy than I used to be, which is great.

As a whole, im fine, not particularly happy, but fine. Just worried about my future is all.

 

[keve4433]

How to put this...I'm content, but not happy. I have a job, a low paying job, but a job nonetheless, I have a pretty good relationship with my family, and while I'm not in the best of health it's manageable. Maybe I'm lonely, or maybe I have depression or something, but for some reason I just don't feel very happy.

 

[IndomitableSam]

I'd say I'm content. I have a stable, good job (even if boring and not what I want to do), a good home, food on the table, my family, friends, and free time. There will always be things (material and not) that I want, but I'm not really lacking for anything in my life. I'm much luckier than most of the world, and compared to the Western world, I'm good too. The only debt I have is my car, which is easily manageable. I have retirement savings and continue to save money. I have friends who are good to me - it's very hard to find friends that will be the ones to contact you (instead of always being the instigator yourself), but I have friends who will do that. I have pride in myself for making my own way in life and achieving the goals I've set for myself.

The only thing that makes me unhappy is that next spring, my parents retire and plan on moving to the other side of the country, which is hard for me to deal with as I go over there 1-2 times a week. And our family pets live with them, so I don't see them often.

Oh, and, Chris Hemsworth is married and has a kid. And it wasn't with me. So that makes me sad.

... Honestly though, I always saw myself as married with kids at this point in life, but I'm not sure now if that was what I wanted or just society's impact on me as a girl. I used to be a school librarian and want to be one again more than anything, but I'm not leaving my steady government job for it because (frustratingly), money is important these days, and if I do have a family, I need the freedom and support this job can give me.

While there will always be more I want in and from life, I am content, and know how lucky I am, so I believe that's enough.

 

[Right Hook]

Am I happy? it's hard to answer, am I happy in this very moment? Am I happy overall? It seems more that you are asking whether we are content with our lives. I'm not content but I am happy on occasions, I'm sad on others but I'm lost most of the time.

I find that a lot of the truths I used to believe in are wrong, a lot of people I trusted aren't so great and a lot of things I believed in are corrupted. I stare at the problems in life more than I look at the blessings, I wonder how I can fix them but am instantly overwhelmed, so much is wrong and people actively make it worse for their own benefit.

I've become much too cynical. There are huge components missing from my life that I require to make it the standard definition of "complete". A lot of these things I don't care about, the opinions of others mean very little when you really think about, nobody knows what we are or where we came from, maybe everything matters, maybe nothing does, to believe anything else is deception, in its finest form. I have a longing deep in me, it draws from past experiences and hopes for more in my future, it's frightening because it's the longing that keeps me going but it may ultimately destroy me.

Am I happy? No. Am I sad? No. I just am...whatever the hell I happen to be at the moment.

 

[AlmostLikeLife]

Yeah, I'd say I am.

I'm single, but at the moment I really don't want to be in a relationship, I'm just fine rolling solo. My job pays me just enough, although I could always do with more $$ in my account. I'm getting into shape, I've lost 26 pounds so far this year already. I enjoy my days sitting here listening to music, surfing the web, etc...

 

[Emilox The Great]

Im fine as far as i know.

Im not contemplating suicide that much right now, so i guess thats good.

 

[A Raging Emo]

lolnope.

I'm relying on my best friend and the thoughts of October onwards to keep me going for now.

 

[Namehere]

The question is:

Are you happy? Is it strange not to find such a simple thread here, one about simply how you feel, and how you are. as a psychologist, i find that many times one just needs to tell some one how they feel. so why not here? so ill ask how are you? Are you happy?

earlier i was on a thread about sex stories, and i looked and realized, i am pretty lucky. Got a hot, sexy, but still thinking and funny wife that loves me utterly (i know cause she will attack any woman she believes looks at me, and flips out if she thinks im looking at another woman), makin all my personal fantasists come true, even when we got a half year old to look after. in that, we love taking care of him, and he doesn't disturb our love making as much as we thought he would (he doesn't cry much). So good wife, good son, and a good steady job as a game developer and part-time psychologist, im gettin paid good (along side with my wifes teaching job). Good job, good wife, good son, im healthy, got good friends that for once, i am having fun with. i got god on my side, shining all my days. So yeah, i am happy.

Now, DO NOT turn this into a religious debate because i mentioned RELIGION as a reason i am happy, its just another reason to me, but it doesn't have to be for you. Another, No telling me how it is all gonna go down hill for me, cause i respond, 'well, better live right now then huh?'

this thread is about you, not me. Are YOU happy?

I write. Not for a living. I'm not commercial as yet to say the least. But I write and I focus my work on character. I've had a hell of a time doing fan fiction for Star Trek. I tell ya, it's been a mind bending hell. You see... I'm not happy. I'm so far from happy I don't even mind. In the immortal words of BB King: "Can't miss what ya ain't never had." Star Fleet officers aren't satisfied, but they're happy. Its a rather complex study to say the least.

I once read somewhere that a doctor was starting new studies into happiness. He or she had treated a great many patients with depression but found them hung up after the completion of the treatment. They didn't understand or know how to 'be' happy after so many years of depression. Its apparently a large hurdle.

Pain, sorrow, these are one note songs whose pitch merely changes. Happiness is a symphony and far more complex to analyse never mind quantify. There is a reason we say: "One man's heaven is another man's hell." But nobody denies the potency of hell itself. Few embrace the idea of heaven, if you understand what I'm trying to say. It's easy to write off utopia, but nobody would debate the equal ease one can tap into its opposite.

So I'm neither happy nor satisfied. I continue though so I guess I'm something. It ISN'T as though I regularly break out the razor blade box and ponder the future. Hope that helped someone, I'm just more confused.

Oh! And uh, I find the general questions like: "How are you?" "How was your day?" are generally taken as banal banter or pointed probing depending on whose giving them, meaning nobody who asks those specific questions is actually searching for an answer to them. That could be another reason it hasn't come up.

 

[gonzo20]

nope, dont have a job, dont have a girlfriend, dont have much reason for my existence at the moment, pretty much depressed as is

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Happy? Hell no. I've got a crappy, low-paying job, hardly any money, no friends, chest pains and depression.

 

[EPIC_MAN_OF_BACON]

The question is:

Are you happy? Is it strange not to find such a simple thread here, one about simply how you feel, and how you are. as a psychologist, i find that many times one just needs to tell some one how they feel. so why not here? so ill ask how are you? Are you happy?

earlier i was on a thread about sex stories, and i looked and realized, i am pretty lucky. Got a hot, sexy, but still thinking and funny wife that loves me utterly (i know cause she will attack any woman she believes looks at me, and flips out if she thinks im looking at another woman), makin all my personal fantasists come true, even when we got a half year old to look after. in that, we love taking care of him, and he doesn't disturb our love making as much as we thought he would (he doesn't cry much). So good wife, good son, and a good steady job as a game developer and part-time psychologist, im gettin paid good (along side with my wifes teaching job). Good job, good wife, good son, im healthy, got good friends that for once, i am having fun with. i got god on my side, shining all my days. So yeah, i am happy.

Now, DO NOT turn this into a religious debate because i mentioned RELIGION as a reason i am happy, its just another reason to me, but it doesn't have to be for you. Another, No telling me how it is all gonna go down hill for me, cause i respond, 'well, better live right now then huh?'

this thread is about you, not me. Are YOU happy?

I write. Not for a living. I'm not commercial as yet to say the least. But I write and I focus my work on character. I've had a hell of a time doing fan fiction for Star Trek. I tell ya, it's been a mind bending hell. You see... I'm not happy. I'm so far from happy I don't even mind. In the immortal words of BB King: "Can't miss what ya ain't never had." Star Fleet officers aren't satisfied, but they're happy. Its a rather complex study to say the least.

I once read somewhere that a doctor was starting new studies into happiness. He or she had treated a great many patients with depression but found them hung up after the completion of the treatment. They didn't understand or know how to 'be' happy after so many years of depression. Its apparently a large hurdle.

Pain, sorrow, these are one note songs whose pitch merely changes. Happiness is a symphony and far more complex to analyse never mind quantify. There is a reason we say: "One man's heaven is another man's hell." But nobody denies the potency of hell itself. Few embrace the idea of heaven, if you understand what I'm trying to say. It's easy to write off utopia, but nobody would debate the equal ease one can tap into its opposite.

So I'm neither happy nor satisfied. I continue though so I guess I'm something. It ISN'T as though I regularly break out the razor blade box and ponder the future. Hope that helped someone, I'm just more confused.

Oh! And uh, I find the general questions like: "How are you?" "How was your day?" are generally taken as banal banter or pointed probing depending on whose giving them, meaning nobody who asks those specific questions is actually searching for an answer to them. That could be another reason it hasn't come up.

I've encountered such cases. Its those times I usually focus on keeping them going. Like you, I want them to accomplish something, feel something other than sadness, and move themselves else where, perhaps to find their own contentment. Happiness and content are different levels of the same measure: happiness is the current state of emotions in the range of good such as pleasure, glee, satisfaction. While contentment is more the state of your life, as in: is you life good? A good family, job, friends? Do you think you are in a good place and believe it could be worse. Pain and sorrow are two emotions on the negative side of the scale, and yes are easy, while joy is far harder due to how difficult it is to find and retain. Pain is caused by injury to on's mind or soul, from a family or relationship problem. I believe more of it comes from the doubt one feels, or the actually hurt of how it could happen. Sorrow is a deep sadness brought on by pain, so yes all the same, just different levels and chords on the same piano.

As for Heaven and hell, that's another perhaps. My paradise is not your paradise, but there is a paradise for all, whatever it may be. Hell by many meaning is a place one does not wish to go. So my hell might be your paradise. We might be opposites of each other, and as always, will study each other.

I've argued or more discussed these thoughts and topics with other doctors and psychologist, and only, like everything, views differ.

Anyway, I hope to be a writer too, I know, developer, psychology, and a writer, I have big ideas. I find writing to be a way to occupy my mind, get all my ideas on paper. Ones mind must have release. But on must think, and when one thinks, he realizes things, and when he realizes things, he becomes anger or depressed, because the world will always lean towards chaos.