Happiness - what is it...

[Mandon Knight]

Happiness, Fulfilment, A sense of being, I know it's all personally relatable to each of us, and thus non specific, but what defines the meaning of happiness in our lives....

Thoughts, ladies & gents ?

 

[Hobgoblin]

Personally, I think I'd be happy in a job that I enjoy and can live somewhat comfortably in. Good health is important, as is having good friends. Having the time and means to enjoy myself is a bonus.

Right now I have good friends and semi decent health, but am still working a next to minimum wage job and living with my father.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

happiness for ME is staying tight with my family and staying healthy after having gone thru a stroke about three months ago...

 

[HeyZeus]

For me, happiness is an underlying feeling of contentment, created with the knowledge that I have the courage and strength to face life challenges, and hopefully help change our world for the better.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Finding a pencil,

Pizza with sausage,

Telling the time.

 

[Erzengel]

Waking up on a Saturday thinking you have to get up and go to work and then realizing what day it is.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Happiness is an illusion at most you'll be content in life.

 

[charl_huntress]

I think happiness is the collection of small moments. I love my job, but it's when a project goes particularly well that I find true happiness in it. That doesn't happen all the time though.

Happiness is also sitting on my patio deck with my dude, enjoying the cool breeze after a hot day.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Happiness is in the small details of life (simple pleasures).

Happiness is finding people you enjoy communicating with or being around.

Happiness is having a hobby that gives you a sense of self and you enjoy consistently.

Lastly happiness is not just having goals but enjoying the journey towards them.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Happiness is a cigar call Hamlet.

PS : cosmic high five to whom recognize this sentence.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

^^^
I get it!

 

[AnneFan]

A warm gun.

 

[Mandon Knight]

^^^
I get it!

me too...

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

^^^
I get it!

 

[Immortalfire]

Happiness is Oreos in milk.

 

[Godzilla2000]

Happiness for me right now is listening to this certain piece of theme music for a creature in a Japan only Monster Hunter game.

 

[Bruce Banner]

I fear that it's something we tell ourselves that we are. When the days blur from one to the next and they feel interchangeable. Stagnant.

 

[Feenix]

Happiness is a pint of German beer, a box of marzipan chocolate, a laugh with the significant other, and the X-Men 90s cartoon.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Happiness is the third album from Dance Gavin Dance.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Appreciate this term is a 'shifting sands' kind of concept, but are the fundamentals as simple as Maslow would have us consider....

https://simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

 

[Schlosser85]

Finding things to distract yourself so the existential dread doesn't take hold, until eventually you die.

 

[Flash525]

A Four Cheese Pizza?

In all seriousness, I think it's a sense of purpose and fulfilment, yet not all the time. Happiness shouldn't be an absolute, as we all have down days which make us realise the happy times when they're about; if you're always happy, you don't appreciate it so much (I'd not have thought?)

Surrounding yourself with likeminded people that make you feel good to be around, and make you feel good about yourself is key I think; a sense of humour, an appreciation for life, acceptance (that's a key one); some people dream too big and crash too easily if they can't reach their dreams.

 

[THORin]

Happiness is the little things in life that keep the darkness away, as Gandalf says in the Hobbit.
It's also reading Lord of the Rings for the gazillionth time.

 

[C. Lee]

Happiness is....

Having a day of minimal pain.
Hearing my daughter laugh.
Being hugged by my wife even when I don't remember doing anything to deserve it.
Seeing books I read as a child and teenager turned into fantastic movies.

 

[Manasrepublic]

I really like McConaughey’s speech at a college graduation about instead of searching for happiness all the time, seek and experience joy. It’s actually quite a well articulated interesting speech and philosophy about the differences. I agree with a lot of it but question other parts. Still though it’s a great listen and has surprisingly helped