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 Post subject: The Meaning of Happiness
PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 4:29 pm 
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A few days/weeks ago, I had some free time on my hands, so I let my mind wander and I started thinking about random stuff off the top of my head. Somehow, my train of thought moved onto sadness, woe, etc etc, and how come so many people seem to submit themselves to this (I'm looking at you, Mr. Angsty LJer #256)

And then, I realised something.

"True Happiness" is really nothing more than the ability to adapt and to cope with life.

Think about it. Take a look at Mr. Joe Blow Happy-Go-Nuts. His life is pretty good, and he feels happy. However, his life is pretty easy, and hasn't been tested yet. Is he <i>truly</i> happy? Well, it really depends on how well he's able to adapt. For example, if, say, his wife dies, his happiness will be gone. If he grieves, and learns how to cope and adapt to the loss, then he will be happy again. However, if he isn't able to cope with the pain, he will continue to be unhappy.

This also leads to another detail...strength. Lets face it, life sucks. A lot. However, people can learn to cope and adapt to some of the more unpleasant happenings in their life. If they succeed and manage not to be broken, they'll grow stronger for it. They'll become stronger people, who are better able to cope and adapt to worse happenings. However, if they don't manage to cope or to adapt, they become...broken. Some of them are louder about it (FUCK YOU WORLD!), some of them are quieter about it (*snifflesniffle, cries themselves to sleep*)

In short...

Inner Strength/Personal Fortitude + Adaptibility = True Happiness

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For me, happiness is the ability to see past all the shit in life. Life's short, the afterlife's still in question (for those who don't follow religion, anyway), so just enjoy life. With some restraint and responsibility, of course.

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Happiness is a warm gun


Damn, beat me to it.

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Happiness is found in the strangest places.

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Young Asterisk wrote:
Happiness is found in the strangest places.
I have heard this before but for me happiness is usually found in the places I am most familiar with.

Strange places scare me. I always bring a sword with me.


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Young Asterisk wrote:
Happiness is found in the strangest places.


Like 34" 26" 34" blondes, for example.

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Lucis Spei wrote:
Young Asterisk wrote:
Happiness is found in the strangest places.


Like 34" 26" 34" blondes, for example.


Hey, some of those are very familiar places to all concerned mind you.

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OE: Does that mean you don't bring your "sword" with you when you're visiting them? ;-)

(And YA, you were just asking for those cracks, don't try to deny it! If they hadn't written them, I would! :P ;-) )

Nebula Queen, that's a very interesting take. I guess I usually define happiness differently (centering more around the word's ties to pleasure and joy) but you do have a very nice breakdown of what I guess could be called "general positivity" or something along those lines. (Certainly you describe wonderful qualities and strategies for attaining happiness, even for those of us who do not choose to equate happiness itself with those qualities.) Nice. ^__^

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I guess I usually define happiness differently (centering more around the word's ties to pleasure and joy


Hmn...could be interesting. I'd like to hear more on this, if you have the time. ^_^

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 Post subject: Re: The Meaning of Happiness
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Nebula Queen wrote:
(I'm looking at you, Mr. Angsty LJer #256)


Oooo! Which number am I??

*cannot possibly answer something about happiness, sorry, I'm out of this debate*

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Happiness is a sense of completeness and satisfaction with self. If you do not like yourself, you cannot help but be unhappy. If you are totally secure and satisfied with who and what you are, circumstances will have almost no hold on you.

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Happiness is a sense of completeness and satisfaction with self. If you do not like yourself, you cannot help but be unhappy. If you are totally secure and satisfied with who and what you are, circumstances will have almost no hold on you.


And yet, if you are are totally secure and satisfied with yourself but unsatisfied with your surroundings, it's still rather difficult to be happy.

So. Both.

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Speaking of angsty LJers I don't think I have used the 'Happy' emoticon a single time in my entire Journal. :-?

Yevaud, where you referring to me with the sword comment?


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A smart gut (that I forgot his name) said that there are two basic types of happiness:
The first type is the happiness of the sheep that eat and sleep, that her life is secure and she have no worries.
The second type is the feeling of (&%#^&$!!! I don't know howto translate the word...) that Bach felt when he finished the Well Tempered Clavier (if you don't know what it is, go on a killing spree and kill your worthless school teachers).
Basicly I translate it to 'The joy of being' and 'The joy of doing'... Sounds familiar anyone?

Anyway, I just want to add one thing to Nebula's speech:
"Inner Strength/Personal Fortitude + Adaptibility = The Way To True Happiness".

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 Post subject: Re: ::wrenches thread back on topic, if only briefly::
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Lucis Spei wrote:
Young Asterisk wrote:

Happiness is found in the strangest places.



Like 34" 26" 34" blondes, for example.

O_O
*does a measurement*
34-28-37 actually.
And I'm a reddish brunette now.

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OE: Does that mean you don't bring your "sword" with you when you're visiting them? ;-)

(And YA, you were just asking for those cracks, don't try to deny it! If they hadn't written them, I would! :P ;-) )

....what?

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"Happiness is found in a new measure and meaning, about every 6 months. If your measurement of happiness never changes, happiness stays away, and depression creeps around.
Then the search for happiness becomes a project, and when found, has less fufilment. "

From an old Korean I met and escorted out of a DMZ 'special' area.
After a few bottles of Soju, I concurred.


Today, a deer standing in my backyard gave me happiness. Yesterday (last evening), it was trouncing my card shark friend in poker at the weekly card games.
A couple of weeks ago, it was a warm gun, next to the steaming gut pile.


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