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Are you happy?
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FudgeIt
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One response is all I needed. At times I'm so happy with my wife. Sometimes I just want to be fucking left alone and doing my own fucking shit with the "MIKE, MIKE, MIKE!!!!!!!!!l"
near
Gold Member
I lost my dad this year. Happiness comes and goes, just like life itself. Make the most of the time you have doing the things you love, and don't spend too long dwelling on things that make you sad. Live with as few regrets as possible, and try to find some sort of contentment along the way.
SomeNorseGuy
Gold Member
One of our times greatest thinkers once said this about happiness
Personally I try not to get into the weeds of self fulfillment and profound happiness. I prefer to step back and look at the larger picture and generally try to make an effort not to make life shittier for people I interact with.
But a sunny day, fresh coffee and a tasty breakfast usually does it.
Personally I try not to get into the weeds of self fulfillment and profound happiness. I prefer to step back and look at the larger picture and generally try to make an effort not to make life shittier for people I interact with.
But a sunny day, fresh coffee and a tasty breakfast usually does it.
Esca
Member
Thank you, truly I really appreciate it.
I'm happy you came to that realization in time. I didn't want my mom to feel any of the pain I feel and couldn't do that to her. More recently my unofficial nephews are added to the list of needing me cause to be quite frank, their parents are a horrible and I don't want those two boys lives ruined because of shit parents and they look at me and think of me as their dad now
Fucking sucks though that I'm having to keep going on in this shit show though.
Putonahappyface
Gold Member
Ecstatic 24/7.
LordCBH
Member
Succinct answers only please
Lonely. Things are too expensive. I watch those around me achieve the things I want to achieve and get the things I desire (own homes, families) and I wonder as I try "what am I doing wrong?"
Don't get me wrong though, I do not wish for their failure or downfall. I want their continued success. I am very happy seeing those I love and admire succeed. I just wonder what's wrong with me sometimes.
Oh well I suppose. Just gotta keep trying. Keep on keepin on I suppose.
clarky
Gold Member
I am thankfully. Had some rough patches but you can't be happy if you are never sad. My Mrs of 20 years is great we still get on like a house on fire.
My Parents are very old and I worry about the inevitable and one of my dog's is long term sick, neither of which I can do much about, such is life.
My Parents are very old and I worry about the inevitable and one of my dog's is long term sick, neither of which I can do much about, such is life.
LordCBH
Member
Please give your doggo some scritches for me.
clarky
Gold Member
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
Happiness comes and goes. Like sadness.
I think the pursuit of constant happiness is a vain one and will eventually lead you to depression.
I enjoy the good days when they come and accept the bad days when they do. It's just life.
I'd rather put it this way: I'm thankful for my life. I have no health issues, no debts and a few hobbies that I enjoy. That's good.
I think the pursuit of constant happiness is a vain one and will eventually lead you to depression.
I enjoy the good days when they come and accept the bad days when they do. It's just life.
I'd rather put it this way: I'm thankful for my life. I have no health issues, no debts and a few hobbies that I enjoy. That's good.
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StabbyStabStabStabStab
Member
Generally yes, although like everyone it's not a constant (and life has been a little bit shit of late for various reasons but hey ho). Happiness I find comes in smaller, sometimes mundane things (e.g. mowing the lawn – yes proper boring) not in any 'grand event' we attend, holidays we go on etc. – things that are supposed to make us happy I find rarely do (maybe that's just me I dunno).
Anyway I don't want to roll out platitudes or sound like some life affirming fridge magnet, so I'll leave it to our Kate (not directly related, but cherishing those moments of happiness we have)
Anyway I don't want to roll out platitudes or sound like some life affirming fridge magnet, so I'll leave it to our Kate (not directly related, but cherishing those moments of happiness we have)
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
Shit could be worse, shit could be better but generally on the whole I'd say yes.
I still find my wife of 18yrs sexy AF, my kids are doing well in school, the job pays the bills and allows us to live in a nice house and go on nice holidays so aye I'm happy but I'm not sipping pena colladas on the back of a super yacht in Monaco happy but it'll do for now, hopefully I stay out of sight of the universal sniper who has a tendency to fuck up people's lives in big ways... He got my old director, 6mths to retirement and ready to live the good life holidaying and spending time with the grandkids and BAM have throat cancer..
I still find my wife of 18yrs sexy AF, my kids are doing well in school, the job pays the bills and allows us to live in a nice house and go on nice holidays so aye I'm happy but I'm not sipping pena colladas on the back of a super yacht in Monaco happy but it'll do for now, hopefully I stay out of sight of the universal sniper who has a tendency to fuck up people's lives in big ways... He got my old director, 6mths to retirement and ready to live the good life holidaying and spending time with the grandkids and BAM have throat cancer..
badblue
Gold Member
I get to wake up when ever I want and do mostly whatever I want during the day.
My wife works (from home) to support us and makes good money doing it and I take care of the house, my wife and a pair of ultra spoiled cats.
And I get money every month because my employer doesn't seem to care about retraining me to get me back to work after my neck injury.
Despite that I've been fairly unhappy.
Not having a job or something to do out of the house regularly has left me pretty isolated. My best friend of decades left the country never to return a while back and we don't talk anymore. Leaving me with my wife as my only person I talk to/do stuff with which isn't good and has strained our relationship a bit. I've never really been someone that has been able to make a friends either, even as a kid I didn't have many. So my friend leaving (without telling me after borrowing bunch of money) reawakened some childhood trauma/abandonment issues that's taken time to deal with.
And as much as I want to go find some volunteer work somewhere, do some classes or find a social hobby group to meet other people now that I've gotten my mental health to a much better place, my physical health has not been cooperating which added to the negative emotional load I've been trying to shed.
It's kind of difficult to want to go do stuff when you're in pain all the time.
Thankfully at least I do have surgery coming up at the end of the month and I hope that after I've recovered I'll be feeling better and be able to make some much needed changes.
My wife works (from home) to support us and makes good money doing it and I take care of the house, my wife and a pair of ultra spoiled cats.
And I get money every month because my employer doesn't seem to care about retraining me to get me back to work after my neck injury.
Despite that I've been fairly unhappy.
Not having a job or something to do out of the house regularly has left me pretty isolated. My best friend of decades left the country never to return a while back and we don't talk anymore. Leaving me with my wife as my only person I talk to/do stuff with which isn't good and has strained our relationship a bit. I've never really been someone that has been able to make a friends either, even as a kid I didn't have many. So my friend leaving (without telling me after borrowing bunch of money) reawakened some childhood trauma/abandonment issues that's taken time to deal with.
And as much as I want to go find some volunteer work somewhere, do some classes or find a social hobby group to meet other people now that I've gotten my mental health to a much better place, my physical health has not been cooperating which added to the negative emotional load I've been trying to shed.
It's kind of difficult to want to go do stuff when you're in pain all the time.
Thankfully at least I do have surgery coming up at the end of the month and I hope that after I've recovered I'll be feeling better and be able to make some much needed changes.