Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Simple, happiness has nothing to do with looking. Happiness is you deciding there has been some criteria met and allowing yourself to be happy. After years of searching I finally figured it out. You can be happy if you wish to be. You can be happy like a madman for no reason what so ever. Now please excuse me, the nurse is almost here with the medicine. 😱😆
Nice way to define it ! 👆
Originally posted by Shakyamunison😂
Simple, happiness has nothing to do with looking. Happiness is you deciding there has been some criteria met and allowing yourself to be happy. After years of searching I finally figured it out. You can be happy if you wish to be. You can be happy like a madman for no reason what so ever. Now please excuse me, the nurse is almost here with the medicine. 😱😆
Yep, you can be happy no matter what situation is going in your life, except maybe being tortured or dieing from a flesh wound. But other than that....It's a place you make for yourself....It's in the very present! It helps if you don't go back with regrets...
Re: "You can only find happiness when you stop looking for it."
Originally posted by Great Vengeance
I'd like some opinions on this statement and whether or not you agree with it. Discuss.
Hmmm...I agree with it. I have tried to find happiness before, but those times haven't turned out so well for me. When I have least expected it though, happiness has found me. I like that🙂...unexpected happiness is most enjoyable.
there are different kinda of hapiness, some find you, others you make, some you force, some you find, some you discover you already had, some are gifted to you, some you steal/forcibly take, while others are a prize still others run right infront of you with you trying to get to them just being inches away but u never do. you cant define hapiness as a whole.
Re: "You can only find happiness when you stop looking for it."
Originally posted by Great Vengeance
I'd like some opinions on this statement and whether or not you agree with it. Discuss.
I agree. Its' kind of like when I lose the remote; whenever I look for it I never find it, and then when it's absolutely the last thing on my mind I stumble upon it.
Hmm...yes and no.
To this extent it is true: as long as you are searching and desiring it's hard to be happy because you are in an "unsettled" state. If you don't desire, all is settled and well.
On the other hand, one needs to take responsibility for their life and not live with the passive expectation that everything will fall into place. Some things need to be sought, like an education and a job.
Best thing: appreciate what you have (either by working for it, or by chance). Don't swallow the wholesale BS of our Celebrity Garbage Culture which says you are successful only if you are young, rich and famous. Because then, you will always be comparing yourself to the 0.1% of the population which does live like that (and even they are not w/o their problems).
Good health, family, friends, employment. If you have these, you are already living a blessed life.
There's a balance to be struck, really. You can't be 100% complacent. That is, if you were in a concentration camp or dying trapped underwater, this idea of "Hey, here's happiness" tends to look a little thin. On the other hand, you do have to realize you can be happy with what you already have, or you'll never be happy. Modern day America strongly emphasizes this type of thinking, implanting new desires and needs and wants in potential buyers to fuel the market. You might have a razor, but this one is newer and better. You might have a wonderful wife but with ten thousand dollars she can be new and improved. Etc. etc.
There is no one catch phrase or motto to define the good life, so take it all in moderation.