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The worse my day is, the better talking to her makes me feel.What makes you happy? - Page 2
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neSix
United States1772 Posts
The worse my day is, the better talking to her makes me feel. | ||
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SK.Testie
Canada11084 Posts
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Chill
Calgary25988 Posts
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lilsusie
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28707 Posts
i really love getting high at the end of a day. and hugging gf, that's also soothing and relaxing. both in combination is ideal. watching a great movie makes me feel wonderful. (really if you like watching movies you should really make an effort to watch good ones. I never really realized until pretty recently how big the difference is.. bad / average movies are just a timefiller. great movies don't always make you feel great, but they always make you feel something, and just witnessing greatness / something capable of emotionally affecting me sorta fills me with awe. ) hanging out with friends whom enjoy my company and whose company I enjoy is also a terrific activity, there's a huge difference between just hanging out with people and hanging out with friends though. this point is pretty essential to be consistently happy I think. it's probably possible to be consistently content without this, but I'm not sure about consistently happy. eating a great meal makes me happy. however, this has to be a great meal; and this is something which you cannot derive pleasure out of too often, or it stops being as pleasant. the whole theory of diminishing returns might not apply to anything else as strongly as it applies to food. eat good food as often as possible, eat great food very occasionally. (and while I am not particulary wealthy, I really feel that spending $200 on a great meal for one person, if it is something you do twice a year at the most, is one of the best ways one can spend money. ) doing that too often makes you less capable of enjoying all kinds of food though and you'd essentially end up spending way more money on a comparable experience. the first time you eat truly great food however, you will be blown away. great music makes me happy. but honestly, only in combination with being high. otherwise music is pleasant, but I have to admit I am never really touched or moved by music while sober. if im drunk i might want to dance, which is fun and makes me happy, but it's not the same. this is pretty impossible to plan ahead of time because sometimes the combination of your high and the music creates an absolutely wonderful feeling in every inch of your body. the last episode of futurama makes me happy, if nothing else, simply because it shows the potential of man. if we can create anything this good, we can do anything else. watching a great sports event makes me happy. for this to truly truly happen, there are a couple factors that need to apply : whomever I am cheering for must be the underdog, and they must win. when rosenborg beat valencia 2-0 in the champions league just recently, that was one of the happiest occasions of my recent memory. I watched it by myself in a pub with 100 other strangers and that was probably the most joy-packed place in trondheim that day. walking home I would randomly yell YESS and clap my hands when I walked past people whom appeared to have been watching the same game. when norway beat brazil 2-1 in the worldcup, the same thing applied. when rosenborg won the norwegian league for the 12th year in a row, nobody really cared. this only makes me truly happy if it's not expected, otherwise it's more like it makes me content. I also become happy those few days I accomplish something. practicing the law of diminishing returns, I try to make this happen rarely. right now im writing some term paper in history and I will feel very happy once I am done with it. it's pretty good right now too though, if nothing else, simply through having spent the last 10 minutes thinking about what makes me happy. =] | ||
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cRaZypYRo
Germany191 Posts
jiu jitsu training /sports a good mark jokes/comedy | ||
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JiggaJay
United States86 Posts
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Luddite
United States2315 Posts
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geometryb
United States1249 Posts
cupcakes muffins doing well on a test beating someone better than me i guess the last two would go under accomplishing goals. money? i think i would be happier with more money. | ||
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DrainX
Sweden3187 Posts
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geometryb
United States1249 Posts
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
To all of people saying starcraft, girls, food... you dont know shit. Those are things that can perhaps make you feel good, but happy? and me? making people feel good about themselves makes me happy. Seeing people smile(especially the ones who were sad) makes me happy. | ||
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Flaccid
8850 Posts
I don't think that I'm a happy person at all, really, just someone who goes through the motions of living life as I should. Each day is just.. another day until I die. That's certainly not uncommon. I think it's important not to dwell on where you are right now and instead try and see where you want to be in a few years. Then you can do a little something each day or whenever to help move yourself towards that goal. Even if it's only self-dillusion, the idea of progressing and growing somehow as a person can be enough of a daily reward to keep you on the up and up. | ||
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0z
Luxembourg877 Posts
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Rev0lution
United States1805 Posts
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28707 Posts
On November 07 2007 02:35 niteReloaded wrote: I've reached a certain point where very few normal things in this life can make me happy. To all of people saying starcraft, girls, food... you dont know shit. Those are things that can perhaps make you feel good, but happy? and me? making people feel good about themselves makes me happy. Seeing people smile(especially the ones who were sad) makes me happy. if girls can't make you happy im sorry to say you haven't met the right girl. if food can't make you happy you haven't eaten the right food if starcraft can't make you happy you haven't beaten the right player. I was happy as fuck when I qualified for world cyber games in 2004, that's for sure. you shouldn't criticize others for having an easier time finding happiness than you.. I also become happy from making others happy though. that's one of the best things I do. but happy is a pretty broad term. | ||
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lilsusie
3861 Posts
On November 07 2007 02:36 Flaccid wrote: Music. That's certainly not uncommon. I think it's important not to dwell on where you are right now and instead try and see where you want to be in a few years. Then you can do a little something each day or whenever to help move yourself towards that goal. Even if it's only self-dillusion, the idea of progressing and growing somehow as a person can be enough of a daily reward to keep you on the up and up. But that's the thing. Setting small goals to just to accomplish something little by little.. but for what? I know what makes me feel 'good', but those feelings are fleeting. Everything that I do seems ephemeral and I always wind up coming back to this feeling as though I'm stuck. I like making other people 'happy' because I don't ever want them to feel how I do. But as even in helping others, I don't do it for me because it just doesn't really gimme that "ahhh, I've done good" feeling, rather it's like.. "oh well, there's another person." Bah, I dunno. Sorry to get all emo - maybe I've been talking to Jamie too much.  | ||
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28707 Posts
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SK.Testie
Canada11084 Posts
But the real question is have you always felt like this or are you sure it's not the culminating pressures of life coupled with the frustrations of homework etc. | ||
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