Yeah, they make me happy. I'm happy to come and pickup all the ones that don't make you happy. I'll even bring a bag of real Lavazza. It's only gotta last me 100 years. Boat, Learjet, Beach house in Monaco, Playboy mansion, collecting castles...gonna require some thought.
This. While $$$ and all the toys mentioned don’t guarantee 100% happiness, as I don’t believe their is such a thing, I sure would rather have all them and still be unhappy than be unhappy without them. Unhappy in your beach house in Monaco with your boat sounds terrible.
Corrected. Life is too short to chase someone else’s definition of happiness. The first step is: To determine your OWN definition of happiness and go for it. The second step is: Be prepared to change/update your definition as you travel this road called life. Most people don’t do the first (obvious) step and they wonder why they are unhappy!!! Geez
Very true - I'd rather be miserable in a mansion than miserable in a shack ... but the other side of the coin is that I'd much rather be happy in a shack than miserable in a mansion ... I'd also be much happier to be healthy in a shack than riddled with pain and poor health in a mansion It'll all relative and circumstances can ensure contentment is more comfortable and stress free - but circumstances don't dictate contentment. Only have to drive down some dodgy back street and witness some strange looking dudes sitting on a tatty old sofa in the unmown yard, having a beer and a *** and a huge belly laugh with their neighbours ... to realise that it's all mindset
Which reminds me .....The Gates are getting divorced, thats a $130B divorce, wonder how the split will work, there is enough to go around
Well I was really happy yesterday, but I dont know if I will be happy today..... Not even sure how long it will last
Well, I am happy every day and will be every day as long as I wake up. Bloody hard to be happy when one is 6ft under, I would imagine . Waking up in the morning is the most successful thing one can do in any day. Get out of bed and get on with life. Don’t sweat the small stuff (which is the rest of one’s day) but make the small stuff as big as one can .
So how does happiness work when something big happens? Iike divorce, serious illness, financial disaster...... so you wake up happy or depressed??
It's growing. If we are not growing in some way, whether financially, spiritually, relationally etc then few people can remain stagnant and happy long term. Just my 5 cents. Increased from 2.5. Blame the market.
Just thinking .....there are many business’/health professionals where the purpose is to teach, provide tools on how to cope in life. Shoot happens..... you can have goals, purpose etc, but some things are completely out of your control. Just saying..... but I guess it helps if you see the glass half full
I haven’t had a family member nor friend go through a nasty divorce but the wife went through breast cancer in 2016/17 and lost 75% of her large colon in a 8 hour op in 2018 plus the in-laws went bankrupt in the 1980’s and had to live with us for years until they got back on their feet, mentally and financially. Yep, life has thrown me more than my far share of curve balls. When I was 12, I lost my favourite sister in a car accident - she was 10. Whenever life throws me a curve ball, I think of my sister and ask myself would she swap where she is to be in my shoes. Of course she would, in a flash. She will never experience a pandemic, never experience a lockdown, ... It annoys the crap out of me when people whinge about closed borders, lockdown, ... Think of my sister and realise how lucky we are. We have a lot to be happy about. Happy. If despair/depression enter my feeble brain, I think of my sister and I quickly remember how lucky I am. It puts a smile on my face.
Sorry to hear this and good you managed to deal with this, but seriously not everyone is made the same. We cant put everyone in the same box. if people were able to cope with everything and anything in life we would not need mental health professionals etc.
Some folks are more resilient, some less. Some bounce back better than before while others seem to struggle to the end. Life can be great. It can also unfortunately be a cruel and painful journey for many. If we are relatively healthy and have good relationships in life, we should be oozing with gratitude. Many folks in life just suffer. Till the end. Imho, being grateful in life for everything we are blessed to have or not have, is so important.
