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Topic: What is happiness mean to you?
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Sun 05/29/22 08:52 PM
I feel nothing

Laska Paul 's photo
Sun 05/29/22 10:51 PM

I feel nothing


Can I scribble two little sentence here .
Happiness is not something readymade . It comes from your own ACTIONS!!!!
You have no actions , that is why you feel Nothing.

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Sun 05/29/22 11:42 PM
To me, happiness is a peace of mind. Knowing all is well.

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Mon 05/30/22 01:00 AM
Happiness is a good but, coffee, cheese and crackers.

Larsi666 😽's photo
Mon 05/30/22 06:55 AM
My cats, cheesecake and knowing that my parents and my friends are fine.

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Mon 05/30/22 08:42 AM
I use to tell myself everyday that happiness doesn't exist.

People strive too much to find happiness. They only start living when they realize that they can be happy with anything. Philosophy tells you how to live, happiness is just a reward for living in that way.

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Mon 05/30/22 01:15 PM
Yes, exactly what TV cameraman said

Tom4Uhere's photo
Tue 05/31/22 12:37 AM
Often people confuse happiness with being in contentment.

Happiness is Joy.
Joy is an emotional state of mind.
Like all emotions they tend to rise and fall in severity.
It's unhealthy to try to hold onto an emotional state.

If contentment is the center (standard emotional state), joy and anger are extreme periods of emotion which rise and fall according to stimuli.

You get periods which cause joy and you get periods which cause anger. Since those emotions flex, trying to live in constant joy or anger can cause depression. Its unnatural and impossible.

Depression is self-sustaining extreme periods of all emotions. It can cause you to feel you have no control over your own feelings or your own life.

Most of life is non-eventful, emotionally speaking.
If those periods of non-emotional events are 'empty' you think you can't feel happiness.

When you gain emotional maturity, its easier to feel contentment during those non-event periods of life.
You realize happiness (joy) and anger (malcontent) are emotional states which are not meant to last a long time. You have control over malcontent and experience greater sensitivity to the moments which bring you joy.

You still get happy but its more powerful
You still get angry but it is less severe and debilitating.
Non-eventful periods of life are reinforced by contentment.
Contentment becomes your ... middle ground, so to say.
When contented, there's no room for depression to take hold.

Life can be hard.
Everyone builds a delusion about something.
When the delusion is broken, we get confused.
That confusion of life's expectations affects contentment.
Accepting the reality of your own life, without the delusional gloss allows you to be contented because reality is always reality.

We all set expectations on life. We are taught what to expect by the other people we meet.
We build delusions based on other people's examples of what life is supposed to be.
When our own lives don't match those expected results it confuses expectations. Natural contentment eludes us.

Remove the delusions and see your own life's reality. Set your own expectations based on what you know about your own life.
Delusions can be broken but reality is reality and applies no matter the expectation.

Understanding that, allows contentment and natural expression of emotion.

If you 'feel nothing' you are telling yourself to feel nothing and denying your own emotional expression. Feeling 'numb' emotionally is a form of depression.
I've felt the same way before and its soul-wrenching.
I needed to come to grips with my expectations and remove the delusions I built so I could embrace reality.
Once that was mastered (It took a long time), I found inner contentment and my moments of joy were so much sweeter. It also allowed me to make better decisions which lessened the malcontent and anger I felt. It gave me control of my own emotional stability.

Many, many things in life bring me joy now.
Few things make me angry and when I am angry, I can control and remove the anger from my decision making.
I never really feel over-whelming sadness anymore. I still feel sadness when it is warranted but it doesn't consume me.

If you allow someone else to tell you how to live your life, you are living their lives ... not yours.
Take back your life and live your life your way.
You are the only expert on how to live your own life, because it is YOUR life after-all.
Without YOU your life is a lie.
Those lies (delusions) bring malcontent because things in your life don't align with delusional expectations.

Put your head on right...see the reality of your life and take control of it. It should be the easiest thing you can do.
Nobody can do a better you, they don't walk your path.

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Wed 06/01/22 12:16 AM
To me, happiness is a peace of mind. Knowing all is well.

I agree. Plus you get to hug the important people in your life.

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Tue 08/23/22 08:19 AM
happiness means all aspects of your life are all balance :sparkles:

Ankit Kumar 's photo
Mon 11/14/22 06:41 PM
In general way , be happy is the key to success. but in relationship or friendship happy is more important than anything to understand , to finding ,
to caring , to loving , a good communication with lots of joy and happiness . according to this app this site be happy is everything okiee that it .

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Fri 11/18/22 06:33 AM
since happiness is what's we're talking about, my happiness is when i find things funny, i laugh. since it's just a fleeting emotion. but if we talk about joy, which is forever, its the people i love most especially, my baby and my husband.

Mr Good Guy's photo
Fri 11/18/22 11:16 AM

Often people confuse happiness with being in contentment.

Happiness is Joy.
Joy is an emotional state of mind.
Like all emotions they tend to rise and fall in severity.
It's unhealthy to try to hold onto an emotional state.

If contentment is the center (standard emotional state), joy and anger are extreme periods of emotion which rise and fall according to stimuli.

You get periods which cause joy and you get periods which cause anger. Since those emotions flex, trying to live in constant joy or anger can cause depression. Its unnatural and impossible.

Depression is self-sustaining extreme periods of all emotions. It can cause you to feel you have no control over your own feelings or your own life.

Most of life is non-eventful, emotionally speaking.
If those periods of non-emotional events are 'empty' you think you can't feel happiness.

When you gain emotional maturity, its easier to feel contentment during those non-event periods of life.
You realize happiness (joy) and anger (malcontent) are emotional states which are not meant to last a long time. You have control over malcontent and experience greater sensitivity to the moments which bring you joy.

You still get happy but its more powerful
You still get angry but it is less severe and debilitating.
Non-eventful periods of life are reinforced by contentment.
Contentment becomes your ... middle ground, so to say.
When contented, there's no room for depression to take hold.

Life can be hard.
Everyone builds a delusion about something.
When the delusion is broken, we get confused.
That confusion of life's expectations affects contentment.
Accepting the reality of your own life, without the delusional gloss allows you to be contented because reality is always reality.

We all set expectations on life. We are taught what to expect by the other people we meet.
We build delusions based on other people's examples of what life is supposed to be.
When our own lives don't match those expected results it confuses expectations. Natural contentment eludes us.

Remove the delusions and see your own life's reality. Set your own expectations based on what you know about your own life.
Delusions can be broken but reality is reality and applies no matter the expectation.

Understanding that, allows contentment and natural expression of emotion.

If you 'feel nothing' you are telling yourself to feel nothing and denying your own emotional expression. Feeling 'numb' emotionally is a form of depression.
I've felt the same way before and its soul-wrenching.
I needed to come to grips with my expectations and remove the delusions I built so I could embrace reality.
Once that was mastered (It took a long time), I found inner contentment and my moments of joy were so much sweeter. It also allowed me to make better decisions which lessened the malcontent and anger I felt. It gave me control of my own emotional stability.

Many, many things in life bring me joy now.
Few things make me angry and when I am angry, I can control and remove the anger from my decision making.
I never really feel over-whelming sadness anymore. I still feel sadness when it is warranted but it doesn't consume me.

If you allow someone else to tell you how to live your life, you are living their lives ... not yours.
Take back your life and live your life your way.
You are the only expert on how to live your own life, because it is YOUR life after-all.
Without YOU your life is a lie.
Those lies (delusions) bring malcontent because things in your life don't align with delusional expectations.

Put your head on right...see the reality of your life and take control of it. It should be the easiest thing you can do.
Nobody can do a better you, they don't walk your path.
Nobody else is commenting about this? I will....excellent!

Duttoneer's photo
Mon 11/21/22 01:16 AM

Is anyone truly happy, maybe for that fleeting moment such as reunion with a friend or family member after a long separation and being happy on seeing them again, but in general every day life, I wonder if people are really happy, perhaps many are happy to be in a state of not being too unhappy with their "lot in life", everyone is different.

Duttoneer's photo
Thu 11/24/22 11:31 PM

Did you hear about the 7 dwarfs in bed feeling happy, when Happy got out they all felt grumpy.
laugh

Jovana chacin 's photo
Fri 11/25/22 05:37 PM
Heyy 🤍

Morticia's photo
Fri 11/25/22 05:39 PM
Happiness is spending quality time with my kids. I'd choose them over anything.

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Fri 11/25/22 11:09 PM
Smiling without showing teeth :grin::laughing:

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Sat 11/26/22 03:05 AM
Happiness to me is a peaceful easy feeling that I get when I embrace and appreciate life in the moment... the here and now, with no thoughts of the future or the past.

SparklingCrystal 💖💎's photo
Sat 11/26/22 06:01 AM
Happiness... feeling good and lighthearted, and light, a positive outlook on most everything in life.
Knowing and feeling and sensing that everything always works out for you. Smiling a lot.
Easily feeling joyful and grateful.

It's basically living from the heart, which is all about joy, love, happiness, gratitude.
If that is the case it's an internal thing, not dependent on anything from the outside.

Contrary to what Tom said it IS possible to feel this 24/7, day in day out, months on end, always.

And you can feel brief happiness that is based on something external. Like someone saying something nice, receiving a gift you like and so on.

If you can't feel anything you're heart is closed and your lower 3 chakras are very likely imbalanced and in need of clearing.
This is mostly achieved by personal growth and development ---> working through issues.

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