What is happiness?

I'm not exactly new to this place but i'll do this anyway.

I've been thinking about the above question and i just don't know the answer any more. I can't think back to a point in time where i had feelings where i felt "happy". I'm either feeling really sad all the time or like i'm heavily sedated and feeling detached.

I remember not too long ago a feeling of not being un-happy. However it wasn't feeling happy, it was just not feeling sad.

So back to the original question what is the feeling to be happy. Is it to not be un-happy or is it something further? Is it something other people can give you? Or is it really something that you have to have within yourself to achieve?

I don't know - i'm lost for answers :confused:

Reply 1

Poica

14

Happiness is contentment with where you are in life, what you've achieved and what you will achieve. And also, sitting back on Boxing Day watching a film, full of turkey sandwiches.

Reply 2

xxSpicyChickenxx

9

a feeling you get when your happy?

Reply 3

killerbee

12

a rather good tv series

Eating a big cake.

OP

I think you're all missing the point, i'm wasting my time in this sub-forum :rolleyes:

Reply 6

Philadelphia

Blurry

I'm not exactly new to this place but i'll do this anyway.

I've been thinking about the above question and i just don't know the answer any more. I can't think back to a point in time where i had feelings where i felt "happy". I'm either feeling really sad all the time or like i'm heavily sedated and feeling detached.

I remember not too long ago a feeling of not being un-happy. However it wasn't feeling happy, it was just not feeling sad.

So back to the original question what is the feeling to be happy. Is it to not be un-happy or is it something further? Is it something other people can give you? Or is it really something that you have to have within yourself to achieve?

I don't know - i'm lost for answers :confused:

I would say being with someone you love and making sure you can support each other that's the main thing in life then offcourse doing things with them like travelling i don't neccesarily mean like micheal palin but probably 2 week holiday kind of things, i would like to travel some day and being in a job you love.

Reply 7

stratomaster

Happiness is a warm gun

-Bono

Reply 8

sim90

13

feeling pleasure: feeling or showing pleasure, contentment, or joy
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Reply 9

sim90

13

feeling pleasure: feeling or showing pleasure, contentment, or joy

Reply 10

Moses_Waterman

Blurry

I'm not exactly new to this place but i'll do this anyway.

I've been thinking about the above question and i just don't know the answer any more. I can't think back to a point in time where i had feelings where i felt "happy". I'm either feeling really sad all the time or like i'm heavily sedated and feeling detached.

I remember not too long ago a feeling of not being un-happy. However it wasn't feeling happy, it was just not feeling sad.

So back to the original question what is the feeling to be happy. Is it to not be un-happy or is it something further? Is it something other people can give you? Or is it really something that you have to have within yourself to achieve?

I don't know - i'm lost for answers :confused:

perhaps thinking to yourself 'What is a stupid question?', or 'Why am I a moron?' would be more benefitial for yourself in the long run.

Reply 11

zooropa

Happiness is subjective and also elusive.

Reply 12

Blurry

OP

Moses_Waterman

perhaps thinking to yourself 'What is a stupid question?', or 'Why am I a moron?' would be more benefitial for yourself in the long run.

Perhaps, but perhaps if this was left where it was put people like you would not contribute.

Learn to spell: Beneficial.

I was actually speaking about something personal so have some respect and go read an english dictionary and learn to spell seeing as you're at Oxford university as your profile says. Don't call anyone a moron as you're clearly clueless.

Reply 13

Dark and Lovely

15

lol this made me laugh cuz im wearing one of those wrist bands like the make poverty history ones, that says happiness on it!
ironic cuz im not particularly happy

Reply 14

Moses_Waterman

Blurry

Perhaps, but perhaps if this was left where it was put people like you would not contribute.

Learn to spell: Beneficial.

I was actually speaking about something personal so have some respect and go read an english dictionary and learn to spell seeing as you're at Oxford university as your profile says. Don't call anyone a moron as you're clearly clueless.

Sound advice; I am off to read the dictionary, as every child does before he/she attempts to write anything.

Reply 15

Lirael Abhorsen

1

i often think should we even expect happiness? when there is so much death and discord in the world, and i think its fair to say no one really has a happy ending... yes i have been happy before when i was younger but that was more a case of ignorance is bliss.. i'm not un-happy at the moment just ok which is enough :smile:

Reply 16

Creepy

14

Being content with what you are doing. I'm happy now, because i have my future roughly planned out, i have many friends, i have a well paid job for my age and status, i recently became single (Wasn't happy about that, but focus on the future, not the past) so i have the fun of finding someone new. Look on the good points of life, if you dwell on all the bad points, your gonna be miserable forever!

Reply 17

Blurry

OP

What if you don't really care either way? There may be good points - but i've yet to come across these. But i just don't even know what happiness is - the closest thing i've come to it is not being un-happy (if that makes any sense; which it doesn't) and this can take many forms.

Reply 18

Ana

19

"Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet"

More seriously, you can only be happy once you're content with yourself, and inside yourself. No one person or thing can give you happiness, it comes from within, from self-confidence. "Non-unhappiness" is not the same, it's just a sense of passive drifting.

:smile:

Reply 19

Blurry

OP

I don't know how to be happy from within. There's so much i hate and it's not like i'm made to think otherwise.

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