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What would it take to make you happy?

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lsslave said:
Just seems boring to get what you want 24/7 ^^
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I wouldn't know because it's never happened to me.
I'd like to think that if I ever was blessed enough to be in a situation where I could spend my time doing nothing but the things I enjoy my memory would remind me just how awesome this was compared to the old times.
And if I ever did start getting bored I would seriously slap myself and tell myself to stop being such a whiney little bitch. I mean how can you get bored doing the things you love? The reason you love them is because they keep you entertained, content, and happy. I really don't think we're gonna see eye to eye on this. Even though I understand what you're trying to say I think your argument only really applies to those that have been born into such luxury and have never had to struggle in their lives. Maybe you'd get bored doing the things you love 24/7, but everyone different right, and I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be a problem for me :D
 
NutJobJim said:
I wouldn't know because it's never happened to me.
I'd like to think that if I ever was blessed enough to be in a situation where I could spend my time doing nothing but the things I enjoy my memory would remind me just how awesome this was compared to the old times.
And if I ever did start getting bored I would seriously slap myself and tell myself to stop being such a whiney little bitch. I mean how can you get bored doing the things you love? The reason you love them is because they keep you entertained, content, and happy. I really don't think we're gonna see eye to eye on this. Even though I understand what you're trying to say I think your argument only really applies to those that have been born into such luxury and have never had to struggle in their lives. Maybe you'd get bored doing the things you love 24/7, but everyone different right, and I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be a problem for me :D
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Well, let me put it to you this way... obviously fantasizing about having this freedom is giving you that giddy view of the future as well as something to achieve.

Having a goal of something that enjoyable is bound to bring you some happiness.

Its like the lottery for some people, there are people who actually discuss what they would do if they won every lottery ticket they buy, they don't deep down think they will win but it brings them joy to fantasize about it :)
 
NutJobJim said:
I mean how can you get bored doing the things you love? The reason you love them is because they keep you entertained, content, and happy.
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Exactly. I can't remember the last time I was truly bored. And even if you can do whatever you want with your days and don't have to worry about your finances, it doesn't automatically make life utterly stress free. There will always be hurdles to jump and damage to control. Removing a couple of major sources of stress doesn't automatically grant you a perfect existence. It just makes life much, much better.
 
lsslave said:
Well, let me put it to you this way... obviously fantasizing about having this freedom is giving you that giddy view of the future as well as something to achieve.

Having a goal of something that enjoyable is bound to bring you some happiness.

Its like the lottery for some people, there are people who actually discuss what they would do if they won every lottery ticket they buy, they don't deep down think they will win but it brings them joy to fantasize about it :)
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Dude I'll say it again, I understand the points you're trying to make, and these points may be relevant for you personally, but I am telling you now that if I was able to do the things I listed 24/7 I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't get bored. It's just not the way that my brain is wired, and as I said earlier, if for whatever crazy reason I started to get bored I'd honestly throw my stupid ass off a mountain :D
 
Money, and lots of it. I could afford a massive house, holidays in the nicest places and pretty much anything I ever wanted. Money doesn't buy happiness my arse.
 
- Self-esteem
- The ability to not get stressed over every tiny thing that could possibly go wrong.
- Friends who I'm able to see more than once every two or three months

I don't know. I've just kind of accepted that I'll probably never truly be happy.
 
At the moment, I am pretty damn happy. Only thing really, being able to see my girlfriend more often, or living with her, which I'm aiming for. Getting a proper job, and my mum living in a better place.
Money.. I guess, £10,000 would be enough for me really.
 
Having enough money to buy a big piece of land in the wilderness somewhere.

Then I could go into that wilderness and build a cabin, hunt, grow my own food... live there...


fuck that'd be awesome.






I might be a closet Amish.
 
Find something I like to do and am passionate about. Have a solid (or any) social life. Have a girlfriend or be dating or whatever. Or pretty much just start life over with a blank slate. That's unlikely though.
 
Striking the words be or is from the english language and other languages words that take on similar form. If governments were actually for the people instead of the powerful, manipulative, or the corporations. If people actually learned to judge people on many layers instead of the many superficial on the surface. All forms of conservative religious practices were banned, spirituality is a different concept for those who will bark at that statement.
 
demon said:
Find something I like to do and am passionate about. Have a solid (or any) social life. Have a girlfriend or be dating or whatever. Or pretty much just start life over with a blank slate. That's unlikely though.
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Yup, it's unlikely for you. You've given up before you started trying.
 
realizing that what i have is enough.

i exhaust these two quotes where happiness is concerned, but:

"how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . all that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart." - nikos kazantzakis

"i urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'if this isn't nice, i don't know what is.'" - kurt vonnegut


so just stop. fucking smile and realize that your life is happening now when something good happens, and that it may be as good as it gets. enjoy it. enjoy it. enjoy it.
 
Of course I'd love to have shitloads of money, but tbh, I wouldn't wanna have so much money I don't value it anymore, how hard it is to get it and what you can/could do with it (make a difference?).

Now PM me offering me a couple million dollars and I'll deny ever saying such a thing :lol
 
For everyone I know and love to live long, healthy and happy lives.

To be my own man, making my own money, together with my ridiculously multitallented and genius of a GF/best friend/partner.
 
Drop my commute from an hour each way and let me get back into some more technical things at work.

Wouldn't be paradise, exactly, but those two things would go a long, LONG way.

::edit::
You know what, strike the commute thing, and just leave the second part. If I was able to get back into learning new stuff at work instead of going through the same motions, I could use that hour commute time to study (I take a train) so it would actually work out to an advantage.
 
Financial independence. Which doesn't mean rich. I'd be fine with a $50K yearly salary, paid in perpetuity with cost of living increases.

Then I would be truly happy, or at least as happy as an old crankypants can be.
 
- Being able to overcome depression.
- Figure out my purpose, getting some direction to my life.
- Confidence.
- Accepting who I am and allowing others to get close to me.
 
My own condo, perhaps a g/f (although I just got out of a relationship and would like a bit of time to myself for now)
 
Just yesterday, as I sat on my commuter ferry, watching the sun rising over the Atlantic Ocean, I realized that seven years ago I might have been buried by crumbling towers. My wonderful wife would have been a widow, struggling on her own to raise our son. My brilliant kid would have grown up fatherless and bitter. We never would have purchased that lovely home by the shore. I wouldn't have landed this cushy job.

So, I am happy. Quite happy indeed.
 
NutJobJim said:
NutJobJim's Happiness List
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Travelling the world
Reading
Training Muay Thai full time
Continue playing the guitar
Finding someone to enjoy my life with
Eating good food

Your list is pretty much the same as mine.

I do them all and have a decent job, but just making about $10-15 more an hour would make my life exactly how I want it to be. At the same time though, if I hit the lotto I would invest it and do exactly what I do already, but full time. Probably go to Thailand for a couple of years and just train my ass off at Muay Thai. Not to compete, but it is just something I always wanted to do.
 
xxjuicesxx said:
A job as a female oral sex quality control manager.

...and a sandwich.

Isn't that what would make every guy happy?
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Now I want a sub >.< and am hungry and its only 10 AM I can't eat for at least another 3 hours >.<
 
-Stop fighting with my Brother
-Move out
-Get a job
-Get a license
-Stop wearing my brace and have a straight back
-Have a steady income when I get a job
 
DubloSeven said:
Money, wife and kids.

Cliche I know.
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Cliché, but also a very good goal for happiness. If I could have a son or daughter and a wife to share my life with, I'd be complete. That's all I need in this life.
 
17" Macbook Pro - 50" plasma - PS3 - Cable TV - plane tickets to France, Italy, Africa, China, Japan - ugh I guess just the money to get half these thing would work to clear my mood a little

I am not sure why my emotions are stuck on depression most of the time but it really does not take much to change my mood if I could only get to enjoy the things I would like to do.

when I think about where I was born and how poor I was compared to how poor I feel today... I feel ashamed and spoiled that I would need all those things to change my daily mood. Still I would not mind spoiling myself if I could. I HATE being unhappy
 
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