Basic question in life....are you happy?

There are forces fighting within us and those in the environment around us. These are Forces that make us happy and otherwise those with potentials to make us mad or sad. While we cannot control alot of these external forces we can certainly do something to those that are within our means. I must say that being happy is a great challenge every minute and everyday. Being happy or being mad or being sad is a choice. I would rather be happy than being sad or mad. The least I could do is to remind myself and I've been alot happier than I used to. Yes! I'm happy.

I shall compare my life with a person who used to be at 'war' with her neighbour. Comparing with that my life is total bliss. I have just asked my neighbour to help me keep a lookout of my baby and she was so helpful. And I am in turn so grateful. That is harmony to me. I have many complaints but I feel that I am in control of a large part of my life and I am happy. And in control I meant I am determined to be nice to people and that alone can have a nice affluence on my days. Material things do make me happy at first but they get worn out sooner or later. I am still wanting to buy and get many things so i have a little dissatisfation in that area. I have not been 'tested', that is my arm or my kidney are still functional so I would not know how or what i will be in case that happens. Happiness truly belongs to those whom the norm considers not so lucky but you see a broad smile across their faces.

If you want an honest answer as to how I am feeling right now then happy is not how I would describe myself today. I am very worried infact and it's making me feel very unwell and un happy. I think it's okay to look happy on the outside, like keeping smiling and being outwardly happy, but on the inside a lot of people who seem happy really are not. Emotinally I am not a very strong person, I don't need material things to make me happy, but if I could find a few extra euros per month from somewhere that would make me a little happier.

hi blue~ hope this is not too late~the quote is really true...we think good, we say yes and we do best..material things will give us the happiness but it temporary.to feel happy we need to feel it naturally.material things will stimulate the feel but it is better if we fell the it sincerely.hope we always feel happy with ourselves and our lives.

i not agree with those sentences i think that only happy when you love some one or some one show love an you that love should be any type only if you help some one that time you feel that your happy that is real happiness i think that Gandhi life is different and my life is different i dont want to be a Gandhi i want to be a human that i want to save humanity that helps others like not only humans but also all the animals

The quote has a point. When everything is in harmony and all of the universe conspires and is in your favor, I guess you are indeed happy. Nothing can cause you to be sad but even how emotionally strong you are, you will once in a while hit rock bottom and get depressed. That is human nature. That is how life is.

hi bluemoonpavilion. yes it sounds real rig ht to me. I have learned that you can be happy even when circumstances cry out that you want them changed. I am happy because if I did not make me happy then the situation I am here where I never ever planned on being in a tiresome boring retirement center would kill me, wither away my spirit a nd make everyone around me unhappy too. A sour person just poisons him or herself while being happy helps to be happy aNywhere you are.I have hopes of one day getting back into a two bedroom apartment with my son again. we aRe homeless so that is why we both are in the next best things for now.

I know what makes me happy, and I try to do those things that make me happy as much as I can, but I'm not happy all the time. Nobody is, I'm sure...

i am happy because i am enjoying my life.

I still have to reach that place. Where what I think and say and do are all in harmony. So, in the meantime, I pick my moments. I might not get 3 of them together, but sometimes I get two and I think that is enough. I think I am emotionally strong, but I don't translate it as happiness.

I agree with the quote. Some people say they are happy when the stars are in alignment!! Basically I feel that happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy or not. If you choose to be happy, then one must strive to be so.

It is rhetorically impossible to be happy as unlike other activities like running, sleeping etc which can be defined within boundaries of words,"being happy" is very difficult to define if not, impossible. Theefore, it is logically imposible to be happy cos how do you know when you are happy? There is no scale of reference to compare it to!!! What do you think?

yes. because when everything is in harmony. you don't have struggles inside and don't feel hesitations.

hnhnhhnn every day i always happy........But sadly to say that today ,, i'm sad,,,,cause i broke up to my boyfriend,, and i can't accept it...

I'm am generally a happy person. I've been stuck at the other end of the spectrum for a while early in my lie. Feels good to be able to say that I've seen much worse days, and know what I need to do, say and think to stay away from going there again. Even with my current level of happiness, I am not really satisfied. I know that I can reach a higher level by achieving some of my long term goals in life. Some of said goals involve material things(mostly for key members of my family), but those material things, I believe, will be helpful in me reaching a true inner peace. As of right now, I feel guilt for being such a burden to the people who I love. I've put them through a lot of stress, and am currently trying to make them understand how sorry I am, and make them happy.

I think he is correct on some stages of this saying, but it is not the only way to be happy. You can also become happy if you did something which you are satisfied with, or become happy because you are releifed Right now im very happy and sometimes material things make me happy also, like everybody else, who dont like getting new things? One of the reasons that people like shopping a way of getting pleasure and happyness, though it is only bought and will in the long run be a very expensive solution.

I had to learn this the tough way but gosh have I learned. That although my surroundings are so tormented that I must be happy with myself and not allow circumstances over cloud my thinking.

I would say happiness is a by-product of doing the will of God. For me that has to be a big part of the equation. If God was not a part of life then nothing else would matter.

yes!bcoz i have all my family, friend,loveone,and other who trust me.its good feeling when i with them together.maybe sometime theres is problem that sometime its make me down but its ok hurt make me strong if you failed in your love stand up try again theres is no imposible if you want...be you and trust yourself feel free..lol "D "D "D

I agree with the above sentence.I am happy sometimes when I am prised, or doing what i want to do or singing happy songs.But we do not need happiness all the time.Sometimes people are in blue and enjoy this kind of feeling.I’s good to be in harmony.But,don‘t you want to make your life more colourful and exciting?