5 things happy people do

While I agree with some of this I also think being "happy" is overrated. There is a hell of a lot in this world that is not so "happy."

Famines, droughts, genocide, infanticide, global warming, McCain/Palin, folks that are asleep at the idea of global warming, my daughter-in-law who had a double transplant and who cannot get medicine to keep her alive past a three year cut off point for medicare......

So I am not trying to rain on your parade and I am not a miserable person to be around yet ....I don't feel too happy when I look at the mess the world is in and how so few folks are working to change it.

Yes it is bad point in our history too be happy, but I try to interject humor wherever possible. That makes me happy and at the same time I try too interject some truth.

Its the Law of Attraction.
Focus.

I know what you mean kenny. I'm working on my sense of humor, since only a select few actually understand it.
Most people do things they don't whan to, because they have to do it. I try to make the make the small stuff that makes me happy, even better when I'm stressed.

Thanks L_I_M_R.
I need to be reminded.
It's a difficult time to stay happy.
Things are rough in the world today.
I try to remember to slow down and look at the good things, do positive affirmations etc...but it isn't easy. I need reminders. This post was one.

As I understood the article it went beyond the superficial put on a smile type happiness to something deeper like finding meaning and purpose in one's life.

Many years ago Joseph Campbell spoke of it as following one's bliss. I took his work and thoughts to heart and I do follow my bliss. I work in mental health and with the world's rejected. I may not be "happy" but my life has meaning and brings a sense of peace and contentment along with a sense of outrage and energy to work to change a VERY broken system.

Are we here just to be happy? Is there much in the world to be happy about? Yet when I find other's here at current who also are outraged by the perfidy of corporations, government, media and such I know I am not alone in believing that change can take place. I don't use the word happy but I do feel encouraged.

When I face the ugliness of a health care system that is broken where medicare will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a double transplant and three years of accompanying medical care and then three years later abandon the transplantee by not paying for the daily life sustaining medications the person needs I am not happy! I am outraged. Either don't offer the transplants and let the folks die or provide them with what they need for as long as it is needed. Read the book Screwed by Tom Hartman. Medical care was not always privatized and it did serve the population. Who should make a profit on someone's life? I sure as hell do not feel happy about a Bush,Reagan, et al who made that decision. When I join with folks who also see this as an outrage I do feel some sense of community and hope. A sense of community brings a sense of being a part of something larger which is soothing and hopeful.

I happen to believe that happiness is over-rated.

I think anyone who met me would find me to be fairly outgoing, warm, gentle, and with a dry humor. Yet below all of that is a moral certainty that if we ignore all the outrages of the world and work at being happy then we have lost what we are working for.

Happy feelings is an opiate that I do not believe we can afford.

I happen to support most of the articles that Love_ is_ my_Religion posts here and I don't believe I missed the point of this article at all.

I am just asking what is more important being happy or working for change that really does have an impact on the lives of many? Sure we can find quiet joy in many things we do, see, read, share with others, or when we are working for change..........

After all my previous posts I have also reflected on what other's have written and I do agree that snarling and sniping and becoming bitter is not live enhancing but life destroying. I too know that finding a wellspring of ways to interject humor, gentleness, warmth, and a sense of YES! into life is also life affirming.

I am grieving over the fact that soon a beautiful woman, highly educated, IQ far surpassing mine may fade from this world over the FUCKING almighty dollar.

Sorry Megan too hear of what's going in you life............ I feel so lucky to be able too listen to Thom Hatmann's radio shows
he is one of the smartest people on the radio. And he lives right here in Portland.

i love it when people think today and their problems are the worst this world has ever faced. as if today is the worst day of the history of the world. start thinking more, hopefully you can come to a realization of truth and let go. most of you already consider yourselves enlightened to the truth because of a movie from al gore, you people i refer to as goretools. because someone who says they are smart, tells you something, you believe it, instead of thinking for yourselves. step outside of yourself, step outside of what you are told, think for yourself. realize freedom and truth.

in the words of the great mjk

"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening,
terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in
this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the
religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by
giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their
view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and
learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness;
chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.

Think for yourself.
Question authority."

I don't mind sadness and sorrow.
Through them I can better appreciate happiness and the occasional sense of joy.
It's a Yin Yang thang, don'cha know.

I am going to stick with Schopenhauer on this topic, and remind people that this is a correlational study, and there is no causality proof.

for me it's running + rock climbing + not doing homework + lots of sleep = happiness. that and seeing my quotes on current tv.

Being happy or wanting to be happy doesn't mean you're oblivious to the world around you.

Too few people find enough joy in life. I will not be one of them.

So feeling relevent and excelling in areas of interest makes you happy?

NO KIDDING??

Good Work. And as Bill Murray used to say on SNL
"That's correct. You're absolutely right" My first Dawn of
Happiness occured when my best friend told me about
Mrs.LaShiavo's art classes. Though I had to spend my
paper route Silver on these classes, and couldn't afford
to fund many she did encourage me to continue in Art
in any way I could because she claimed I have real God
given talent. When she saw the bowl of fruit I painted I
saw the look on her face. She lost all track of her
surroundings and simply stopped and opened her eyes wide. She WAS impressed.My memory of that painting
is as clear now as it was 47 years ago. And you know,
when I close my eyes and meditate with our Bhuddachi
prayer I can still see myself looking at myself after I'd
completed it.Like me, it may not be wi fi, but it's still hi fi.

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The world has always been a sad, dangerous, scary place - think of the Dark Ages, the plague, the horrors of war, famine, hate - they've ll been a central part of 'life'. The key is to try to make things a little better in your small space in place and time - and try to see the true humor in even the darkest of times.

A friend of mine lost a breast to cancer and joked, "at least now I only have to have my mammogram on one side and pay 1/2 as much."

If you let it, the world will eat you alive with all the fear and pain - just try not to let it!

Hello. I'm sorry to have to tell you this and rain on your parade of smiley faces, BUT. There exists no human "Fountain of eternal happiness".Not even real fulfillment in anything that matters in which one IS made complete, as we were created to be made "complete". Only at best, temporary man made "fixes" in an attempt to alleviate the symptoms of this dread unhappiness disease all created human beings suffer underneath at some time or another.There exists inside of all humankind a void, -a certain something, an empty "space in our hearts"--yes, our souls even -that keeps us chasing after the wind of that all elusive "happy fix." Searching after "happiness & wholeness", -equated by human standards? It's not be found in that way. Not real and lasting without one having to take another drink or work harder or play more--you get my drift.
Complete and lasting wholeness- not merely "happiness", but Joy? Is to be found only thorough a personal relationship with God, through Jesus Christ. That is my testimony as to where to "find" happiness.
At the foot of the cross.

Weed seems to work for me. :]

yin and yang, my friends. Life is chaos.

I liked this because the older I get the more true it is that you have to create happiness

To be happy,...
Ignore the outside world, be as naive as possible, and only worry about your own life.

have more sex people, this is the real key to happiness.

Im a pretty happy person. Im not happy sometimes, like when the person next to me lets off a terrible loud fart. I speak for everyone that shit just happens. Get over it or at least try. Theres plenty of good things in life, its just the bad things are always magnified by the media and such people. Sex does help too just dont fart while doing it :)