What does happiness means to you?
By ketping8889
@ketping8889 (302)
Saudi Arabia
August 4, 2010 12:13pm CST
It is so great to be happy. I find myself feeling very happy on seing everybody smiling and grinning happily especially on pay day. Money does bring happiness but not all the time. Even many famous people found to their consternation that their fame was not an automatic passport to happiness either.
Would the money , friends, food, clothes, jewellery, the house or property you possesses or a spouse that you loved bring happiness to you? What does happiness means to you?
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
6 Aug 10
Hi ketping, I am a simple person and many things happen in my daily life would make me to fell happy. I would like to share with you one of them here. I have a mini vegetable garden in my front courtyard. The wax gourd planted grew vigorously with lots of yellow flowers blooming all the time. It's really disappointed that there wasn't any baby gourd seen after numerous flowers blooming and falling. I decided to get rid of it after waiting for several months.
To my astonishment a big gourd was found hanging at the bottom of the plant.
it hid itself so well among the leafy part so close to the ground. I was in a great pleasure and calling my husband to watch the amazing big gourd hanging there as well to share my huge happiness. I had captured the image of this unexpected harvest then to keep it as a remembrance
Take care and happy posting 
it hid itself so well among the leafy part so close to the ground. I was in a great pleasure and calling my husband to watch the amazing big gourd hanging there as well to share my huge happiness. I had captured the image of this unexpected harvest then to keep it as a remembrance
Take care and happy posting 
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@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
6 Aug 10
Hi lkbooi, it's good to see you here. You must be a person who can feel happy easily. It's great to know that what you are able to reap what you sow after several months. You must be joyful and contented to discover the big gourd concealed under the thick forage of the plants. It's a surprising gift indeed
Unfortunately, I am living in an apartment without land on which I could grow some vegetables and fruits. However, I can enjoy the fresh air and greenery surroudings in the court yard when I am back in my home town.
Happy posting and have a nice day!
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@ketping8889 (302)
• Saudi Arabia
6 Aug 10
Hi, Ikbooi and Cheongyc! I am indeed glad to hear of that amazing big gourd in your garden, Ikbooi. Oh! Such joy! Gosh! I will feel just as ecstatic as you did if it was me who encounter such a surprise.
You have certainly done a good job in taking care of your plants, IKbooi. Plants can bring such joy with it's beautiful, colourful flowers, fruits and as Cheongyc said it makes our surroundings filled with fresh air and greenery atmosphere.
It is good to be the type of person who can feel happy easily. Life is about happiness, the happier you are, the happier your life will be. Even the people around you will be happy as well.
Thanks for sharing your happiness with me, Ikbooi and Cheongyc.Have a nice day!
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@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
5 Aug 10
I totally agree with you that it's GREAT to be happy. Happiness is the end point in all our pursuit of wealth and health. Without having adequate health and elementary wealth level, we could hardly find happiness in our life nowadays.
Material wealthiness itself won't bring happiness, but without it, it's not easy to have happiness. Although one may find this statement originate from a materialistic opinion, but it's very true for most of the people, most of the time. Therefore, receiving gift in material form ie. money, jewellery and etc could trigger happiness within oneself.
To me, to see something that I am working on is growing day by day, after putting a lot of effort in it, is the ultimate happiness and contentment that I could find, at least for now.
Hope you find your happiness goal in life and happy Mylotting!
@ketping8889 (302)
• Saudi Arabia
5 Aug 10
Yes, you are definately right to say that happiness is our goal in pursuing wealth and health. Happiness makes life worth living to a certain extend.
I do agree that material wealthiness may bring happiness to most people while we are living on this earth. The more wealth one possesses the happier the person is.
Hence, the pursue for wealth will be endless for some people inspite of the goal they have set.
In my opinion, happiness can only be captured by a contended mind. It is fine, to keep working on our goals in life but once we achieved our goals, we must be contended. If not, greed and unhappiness set in. In short, a easily satisfied person is a happier person.
Do you agree? It would be great to know what is that something that you are working on and is progressing?
Best wishes and good luck to you always.
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@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
6 Aug 10
That's true. Many people lost themselves while they are in the pursuit of wealth , because they tend to forget that what they are actually going after is happiness instead of wealth itself. Ironically, they feel frustrated and unhappy when they face failure in their pursuit and it definitely defeat the purpose of chasing after gold.
Therefore, I agree with you that we should always feel contented with our current achievement and it's undeniably true that people who can be satisfied easily is the one that are happier always.
Actually I am improving myself in knowledge in financial and economy. I feel so happy that I discover new thing and know more than yesterday self. Although this is part of my effort in pursuing wealth, but I find that the process of pursuing knowledge is a pleasure itself.
Thanks and have a good day!
@ketping8889 (302)
• Saudi Arabia
6 Aug 10
Oh! That is so good! Hi, we do need wealth in order to be happy and for survival.It is certainly pleasurable to attain knowledge to improve ourselves as life itself is a learning process. We should keep learning to stay alive at all time furthermore there are variety of knowledge to pursue.
Actually, I have always try to keep myself happy with so many ways. I can be happy easily with the simplest things on earth like a smile, a greeting or just a joke. I also have spiritual happiness to sustain me and thoughts of my service to people that make me happy within myself. Even after so many years , they can still remember me. It is really good to have material wealth and spiritual wealth.
Do you think spiritual wealth is just also important in our life?
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