Topic: Be Happy Im Happy
msharmony's photo
Mon 04/06/15 10:47 AM
in our relationships with loved ones, there is this assumption by many that all that matters is that they are happy and that anyone who loves them will automatically be happy for them

I think thats another nonsensical cliche

If I had a kid, for instance, who was 'happpy' to sit around and eat snickers all day,, that wouldnt make me happy,, and it wouldnt eradicate all my concern just because they added in that this was making them 'happy'


do you expect others to be happy for you as long as you are happy?



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Mon 04/06/15 10:58 AM
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do


I'm always happy and it makes me happy to see other happy.
I don't expect others to be happy just because I'm happy but I imagine they would be happy because I'm happy.

This got me thinking, isn't the word happy, such a happy word. Makes want to dance to a happy song.:banana:

I may have missed the point of your question but I know you won't mind because I'm happyohwell

msharmony's photo
Mon 04/06/15 11:03 AM
Im happy because the song brings out the happiness in me


and apparently in you

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Mon 04/06/15 11:09 AM

Im happy because the song brings out the happiness in me


and apparently in you

It's a great song for doing the housework too, kinda dance with the hoover in your hand, but don't tell anyone:banana:

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Mon 04/06/15 11:11 AM
Edited by tealbreeze on Mon 04/06/15 11:12 AM
She said snickers. smitten My favorite.


Being happy is certainly a more positive state than negative. Having done the other a few times, I think I'd rather smile and gain more wrinkles. flowerforyou

I'd like to think I could make someone smile just by being myself and tossing them my smile and something positive.

Astrid's photo
Mon 04/06/15 11:30 AM
Having happy vibes is contagious. Some people perceive it subconsciously and feel the vibes. It can also alleviate someone's not-so-happy feeling even for just a while. :smile:

Awatersign's photo
Mon 04/06/15 12:06 PM

in our relationships with loved ones, there is this assumption by many that all that matters is that they are happy and that anyone who loves them will automatically be happy for them

I think thats another nonsensical cliche

If I had a kid, for instance, who was 'happpy' to sit around and eat snickers all day,, that wouldnt make me happy,, and it wouldnt eradicate all my concern just because they added in that this was making them 'happy'


do you expect others to be happy for you as long as you are happy?



This makes sense!!think

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Mon 04/06/15 12:29 PM

She said snickers. smitten My favorite.


Being happy is certainly a more positive state than negative. Having done the other a few times, I think I'd rather smile and gain more wrinkles. flowerforyou

I'd like to think I could make someone smile just by being myself and tossing them my smile and something positive.

I have been told that I am perceived as being a negative person. Too many times. I'm tired of it. I myself after a near death experience (Rocky mountain spotted fever and meningitis) and subsequent hospitalization told myself that I would change this. I quit smoking cigarettes after 20 years. I use a vapor cig now. I do everything in my power to find a smile (the muscles of my face are unaccustomed to this) or be positive. I am already battling undiagnosed crohn's disease as I have since '02 and the V.A. Medical system. If I was healthy enough to keep a job, which I'm not, I cannot get one. I exhausted my unemployment trying desperately to get interviews using my connections as references and be hired. I went to community college for two years and got royally screwed there. I'm not smiling right now but I joke and try to make the people around me happy even when I am sick. My extended family enjoys being around me, not my immediate family. At some point you have to tell it like it is or handle business which I do when necessary but I'm not perceived that way at all no matter what proof I offer to show that I have dotted my t's and crossed my eyes. Time isn't healing this one. Truth is truth, regardless if it is well received or not, I speak truth.

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Mon 04/06/15 12:37 PM
Edited by tealbreeze on Mon 04/06/15 12:38 PM


She said snickers. smitten My favorite.


Being happy is certainly a more positive state than negative. Having done the other a few times, I think I'd rather smile and gain more wrinkles. flowerforyou

I'd like to think I could make someone smile just by being myself and tossing them my smile and something positive.

I have been told that I am perceived as being a negative person. Too many times. I'm tired of it. I myself after a near death experience (Rocky mountain spotted fever and meningitis) and subsequent hospitalization told myself that I would change this. I quit smoking cigarettes after 20 years. I use a vapor cig now. I do everything in my power to find a smile (the muscles of my face are unaccustomed to this) or be positive. I am already battling undiagnosed crohn's disease as I have since '02 and the V.A. Medical system. If I was healthy enough to keep a job, which I'm not, I cannot get one. I exhausted my unemployment trying desperately to get interviews using my connections as references and be hired. I went to community college for two years and got royally screwed there. I'm not smiling right now but I joke and try to make the people around me happy even when I am sick. My extended family enjoys being around me, not my immediate family. At some point you have to tell it like it is or handle business which I do when necessary but I'm not perceived that way at all no matter what proof I offer to show that I have dotted my t's and crossed my eyes. Time isn't healing this one. Truth is truth, regardless if it is well received or not, I speak truth.


Aye, don't get me wrong. I have my moments of brutal honesty, that I still have to work on.

It's difficult to kill me, I have found out over the years. Smile, the pain is always there. I've had tummy probs...ya know what fixes all those guts? Atkin's Diet. flowerforyou

germanchoclate1981's photo
Mon 04/06/15 12:42 PM

I think thats another nonsensical cliche
do you expect others to be happy for you as long as you are happy?

Sorry dear, to answer your question, no I don't. I expect others to be happy on happy occasions. I expect people to speak truth. I expect acknowledgement for when I wasn't sitting on my butt eating snickers. I think it is a cliche, because most people that claim to be happy are not WHEN THEY COULD BE. The person whose smile rubs off on someone else is no longer smiling.

germanchoclate1981's photo
Mon 04/06/15 12:53 PM



She said snickers. smitten My favorite.


Being happy is certainly a more positive state than negative. Having done the other a few times, I think I'd rather smile and gain more wrinkles. flowerforyou

I'd like to think I could make someone smile just by being myself and tossing them my smile and something positive.

I have been told that I am perceived as being a negative person. Too many times. I'm tired of it. I myself after a near death experience (Rocky mountain spotted fever and meningitis) and subsequent hospitalization told myself that I would change this. I quit smoking cigarettes after 20 years. I use a vapor cig now. I do everything in my power to find a smile (the muscles of my face are unaccustomed to this) or be positive. I am already battling undiagnosed crohn's disease as I have since '02 and the V.A. Medical system. If I was healthy enough to keep a job, which I'm not, I cannot get one. I exhausted my unemployment trying desperately to get interviews using my connections as references and be hired. I went to community college for two years and got royally screwed there. I'm not smiling right now but I joke and try to make the people around me happy even when I am sick. My extended family enjoys being around me, not my immediate family. At some point you have to tell it like it is or handle business which I do when necessary but I'm not perceived that way at all no matter what proof I offer to show that I have dotted my t's and crossed my eyes. Time isn't healing this one. Truth is truth, regardless if it is well received or not, I speak truth.


Aye, don't get me wrong. I have my moments of brutal honesty, that I still have to work on.

It's difficult to kill me, I have found out over the years. Smile, the pain is always there. I've had tummy probs...ya know what fixes all those guts? Atkin's Diet. flowerforyou

Thank you, but it's not a tummy problem. I have tried Atkins and worked with military and civilian dieticians until they both ran out of diets. No dice. I eat hhealthy more veggies than fruit because of acid and ulcers no alcohol low acid high fiber balanced diet. There is something wrong with every part of my digestive system from salivary glands all the way out. I had a career ending surgery that was supposed to 'repair' me from the bottom up but it failed and everything got worse and even though I'm a candidate for repeat surgery the surgeons sstrongly advised against it. I wouldn't go for it anyway since the first attempt failed.

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Mon 04/06/15 02:10 PM

in our relationships with loved ones, there is this assumption by many that all that matters is that they are happy and that anyone who loves them will automatically be happy for them

I think thats another nonsensical cliche


I agree. :thumbsup:

germanchoclate1981's photo
Mon 04/06/15 09:09 PM


in our relationships with loved ones, there is this assumption by many that all that matters is that they are happy and that anyone who loves them will automatically be happy for them

I think thats another nonsensical cliche


I agree. :thumbsup:

Wow David, I'm impressed.