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OfflineOldWoodSpecter
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Are you happy?
    #5738290 - 06/11/06 03:01 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Are you happy, trully happy with your life? Do you feel like a honest happy child?


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5738310 - 06/11/06 03:07 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Yes!

It somewhat comes in waves, but I find myself the great majority of time extremely happy!

It's so to such a degree that my parents used to scowl me by saying only the stupid are constantly happy. I've actually been told this by numerous individuals now that I think about it. People have often suggested that my degree of happiness must be driven by a correlated level of ignorance. :shrug:


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5738329 - 06/11/06 03:12 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I try to be, but honestly, no. I'm out of college and working as a janitor, with no apparent direction in life. I don't know how I'm going to manage to save enough money to move out of my parents' house. I get into arguments with my dad every week, and it seems like this drama is never going to end. The one thing that keeps me going is my firm belief that God has a plan for me, and that what I'm going through now is just a small part of the bigger picture.


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: Silversoul]
    #5738334 - 06/11/06 03:13 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Silversoul said:
The one thing that keeps me going is my firm belief that God has a plan for me, and that what I'm going through now is just a small part of the bigger picture.



Paradise is in the shadow of the swords.  :wink:


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: spud]
    #5738596 - 06/11/06 04:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

i've been the happiest ive been in years lately but from time to time the way my life is heading gets me down. i'm in a situation similar to Silversoul, only i'm about to graduate college but i don't have any idea what i'm going to do afterwards and i'm afraid i will be stuck living with my parents in a state and town i dont really want to be in. things didn't work out with this girl i was involved with and because i have a difficult time with relationships of any kind, i feel like the next few years of my life are going to be very lonely. most of my college friends are moving away or don't live close to me anyway. i'd like to move back to the east coast where i grew up but i don't see how i am going to be able to afford that. i have faith that things will work out eventually though.


Edited by Deviate (06/11/06 04:31 PM)


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: Deviate]
    #5738603 - 06/11/06 04:28 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

sometimes...but it is usually short-lived.


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: Silversoul]
    #5738792 - 06/11/06 05:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Now one of your posts reminded me of two movies. Ever see God Almighty? Remember what occupation God had here on Earth in it?

Janitor

In another story called the Fisherman and his Wife, they start out in a humble home by the Sea. The husband catches and lets a magical fish go. The wife wonders why he did not ask for some magical wishes to be granted him in exchange for his letting the fish go.

She tells her husband to ask him to give them a larger home. Done. Next she wants to become King, then Emperor of all the land and then Pope. Done Done Done. Finally, The wife decides she wants to be God himself. So the fish tells the husband, "go home, your wife is God" and the fishermen goes back to find their humble home and beginnings.

You have said a while back that you had surrendered your life in service to the God. Thats a disorienting place to be. Consider how you have been talking of the virtues of being humble for months. Now you were given the opportunity to understand them first hand, through this job, which is a gift, though it may not seem so now to you or your Father.

When I surrendered to that which is wiser them my ego self, I became more broke and in debt then ever before and I wasn't "Happy :smile:" about it either. Then one day, something happened and I decided to start getting happy about and with, what I did have. Little by little, as my inner state started to uplift itself, so did the financial situation.

I realized, the Divine within, no matter how low our physical and material status may be, can take us to the MOST HIGH place there is. And when you let it take you there, in every breath of every day, the rest seems to follow naturally.

In other words, saying it is within you and realizing it within you are two different things. It starts with the one. First comes the concept/belief and then, with acceptance which can take time we start moving into the reality and experience of it and it becomes real-realized.

In short, your life has already taken up direction with Gods plan for you. It always starts with humble beginnings as they are the strongest foundation for the rest to grow upon and move into. :thumbup:



To answer your question wood, I am one of the most happiest mo fos on the planet. It's not because of the material wealth around me, it's because I keep remembering and realizing the wealth within my heart, soul and spirit.


:peace: :heart:


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5738823 - 06/11/06 05:28 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Damn straight! I am eternally happy. I am never down for more than a few minutes. Ones awareness determines one's reality...if one does not maintain a positive mental attitude under every circumstance you open the door to your own destruction.


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: Deviate]
    #5738829 - 06/11/06 05:30 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

"i'm about to graduate college but i don't have any idea what i'm going to do afterwards and i'm afraid i will be stuck living with my parents in a state and town i dont really want to be in"

Your adventure begins now! Put away your fear and answer the call of adventure with joy and passion.


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5739839 - 06/11/06 09:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Are you happy, trully happy with your life? Do you feel like a honest happy child?

What do you mean by trully? And if I was a dishonest happy child would that count?

I'm about as happy as George Carlin. I saw some recent stuff of his and he made a lot of sense to me. In a fucking "happy" way. Fuck happy. It's overrated.


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Edited by LunarEclipse (06/11/06 09:59 PM)


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #5739943 - 06/11/06 10:18 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

This is a great question.

I was just thinking about it two minutes ago.

So, I have decided that yes, I am honestly very happy, and just saying that makes me happier.

I will explain.

So, I had always been, for my entire life, happy, without a doubt. I never got worked up about anything, am always just purely happy. However, since experimenting with drugs and philosophy and such, I have seen my happiness waver a bit. Only because it seems during some experiences I have experienced unhappiness, and I somehow convince myself I am unhappy at times.

And the last thing it is is unhappiness at my life conditon. I am very happy about everything material in my life and my love and joy and my friends and my family. What sometimes makes me feel like I am unhappy is when I think, hmm, am I unhappy? Is there more to this? And then just the doubt makes me unhappy. So I realised, I am happy. Just stop doubting it, geeze. That is where I stand!

When I think about how I actually am just happy and how wonderful life is, wow, wow, wow. Like right now, I am honestly so happy to be alive. The fact that I can write this and the fact that so much is wonderful. The music playing, the friends I have, the things to look forward to.

Wow.

:smile:


Edited by michael_lifshitz (06/11/06 10:19 PM)


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: michael_lifshitz]
    #5739968 - 06/11/06 10:23 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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What sometimes makes me feel like I am unhappy is when I think, hmm, am I unhappy? Is there more to this




i think i know exactly what you mean. i remember as a kid, i would be playing with my friends or something and suddenly i would think to myself "am i having fun? what is fun and why should this activity lead to it?" and as soon as i would think that, i'd stop having fun and this feeling of confusion and hopelessness would come over me.


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: michael_lifshitz]
    #5740007 - 06/11/06 10:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Well I am happy with some aspects of my life and unhappy with other aspects. I could change for the better and in some ways have but there's always room for improvement. Still, one can be unhappy because one isn't happy if that makes sense. I try to keep a balance because the highs can lead to the lows and I would rather keep on the surface relaxing with some toddies and rope in my yacht.


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5740161 - 06/11/06 11:21 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Yes!


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #5740713 - 06/12/06 04:07 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

you are what you eat

eat happy food


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5740727 - 06/12/06 04:21 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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OldWoodSpecter said:
Are you happy, trully happy with your life? Do you feel like a honest happy child?




:yesnod:


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Don't be bogged down by your past
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Re: Are you happy? [Re: niteowl]
    #5740741 - 06/12/06 04:33 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so." ~John Stuart Mill

I first heard this from the movie "13 conversations about one thing", and I didn't like the quote at all... in fact, it bothered me in a way. I thought that it was some esoteric, yet vague blather.... until I really thought about that quote.

If you ever find yourself asking that question, you have ceased to enjoy life, and began to live it from an almost external and completely analytical perspective. It isn't saying that you aren't happy at all, but at the time that you stopped to seriously ask yourself that, you have ceased just BEING, and being content or happy with that.


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5740770 - 06/12/06 05:20 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I think true happiness is a pretty evasive state. Recently I'm probably close to the happiest I've ever been...but since I was last this happy (a couple of years ago) there's been a lot of bad water under the bridge so...it's happiness with more sadness underlying it than before. But it's still happy.


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: mr_kite]
    #5740805 - 06/12/06 06:10 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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mr_kite said:
I think true happiness is a pretty evasive state. Recently I'm probably close to the happiest I've ever been...but since I was last this happy (a couple of years ago) there's been a lot of bad water under the bridge so...it's happiness with more sadness underlying it than before. But it's still happy.




Being sad and happy are two sides of the same thing, a happy life

Being closed, cynical, eating yourself from inside and ignoring that is another way of life

So I guess my question should have been: do you have a life with open, honest happyness and sadness, or are you cynical, angry and depressive


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Re: Are you happy? [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5740926 - 06/12/06 08:24 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

:rofl2:


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