" Happiness is wanting what you have."....how much is this a truth?
By icesmile
@icesmile (7160)
Romania
June 17, 2009 3:40pm CST
Do you think that we control our own happiness?
No one and no thing can make us happy and no one or no thing can make us unhappy.
We choose how we react to people and their actions and we choose how we react to our wants and desires.
As the old song goes: "Happiness is wanting what you have".Where do you think that is your happiness? Can be in front of you ?
You are already happy but you don t know yet that you are happy?
Where is your happiness? Is there a place or a person who can make you happy?
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4 responses
@happy123go (1)
• China
20 Jun 09
Maybe.But we are always affected by people and things around us, so sometimes we really cannot control our happiness. But when we meet some difficult and are not happy, we should try our best to control our mood. It can't add happiness, but it can reduce your depresson.Believe me!
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@geniustiger (1694)
• Philippines
18 Jun 09
Happiness in my own little way of understanding
it is the expression of one's feelings after he
achieved his goals and his sucess of what he aimed to be.
It is the truth of feeling glad to evryone because of the
fruits of labor and trials in life thatalready solved.
It is the emoticon of ones feeling inside in her book
of life.
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
27 Aug 09
I think it's important to be happy with what we have. My husband and I were talking about this today. People always think we need to get ahead in life and do more, but we are happy living our modest lifestyle, because it's extremely stable, and we don't have that much to lose. :)
@ruperto (1552)
• Philippines
18 Jun 09
interesting topic.
I agree, a person who wants what he has will be happy.
Perhaps there are questions we want to ask ...
1. How long can one be happy with what one currently have?
2. Given what one has, does the subjective perception of happiness change with time?
3. Is the happiness felt influenced by social factors? or is it a happiness coming freely from one's heart?
If careers were all that mattered...perhaps we can cite some examples: (based on item numbers above...)
3. A person chooses a career against his parents wishes and becomes happy with the outcome for several decades.
2. The same man who chose a career based on what he felt at age 25 may not feel the same way for the career at age e.g. 45 ...
1. If the same man would have guessed right with enough self-lnowledge, he would have perhaps started studying something new at age e.g. 40 ?
What do you think? Cheers
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