How many of you can say your honestly happy at this point in your life.

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Posted: 1/28/2011 4:27:00 AM EDT

I can say that I am . Even though I have gone through a difficult situation, it has brought me closer to God and for that reason , overall I would not change one thing in my life.
(Although winning 200 million in the lottery would not hurt )

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:29:30 AM EDT

[#1]

I am. Have finnally put a bunch of shit behind me, have a loving wife and a clear plan for the waters ahead. I am happy.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:31:30 AM EDT

[#2]

There's no point in being unhappy, regardless of your situation. I could be doing much better these days, but I find a way to enjoy what I've got.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:32:38 AM EDT

[#3]

I wouldn't trade my place in life for anything. I have a great wife, two great healthy kids, work is great and I'm finally getting my in-laws to go to church.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:33:42 AM EDT

[#4]

I have a great life.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:34:20 AM EDT

[#5]

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:34:53 AM EDT

[#6]

I am. I don't have a lot of money, but I love my friends and family and I have some great opportunities in the very near future.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:35:25 AM EDT

[#7]

Seeing MANY of the relationships and conditions friends/family are in.... IM ECSTATIC about my walk with God and my relationship with me wife... anything else after all that is delicious icing on my cake!!

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:36:39 AM EDT

[#8]

I have a great life although I made a lot more money a few years ago when I had my restaurant open but all in all , life is good !

ETA: Married 25 years and two great kids !

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:36:43 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
I can say that I am . Even though I have gone through a difficult situation, it has brought me closer to God and for that reason , overall I would not change one thing in my life.
(Although winning 200 million in the lottery would not hurt )

I'm with you. My wife and I lost our little girl two days before she was due to be born, and some would say, "how can you be happy or still love God?". The truth is I feel Him in my life more than ever. I feel a comfort I've never felt before, because I felt him pull us through the hardest situation I've ever had to encounter, and He still continues to pull us closer.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:37:11 AM EDT

[#10]

If I seperate my job and guy stuff from my social dealings with women, I am very happy!
As an older guy, I have not lost my desire for women, just my desire for dealing with them.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:38:05 AM EDT

[#11]

I love my LIFE

I am 43yo and I have

A lovely Wife (who I have become more attracted to as the years go by)
Two GREAT and healthy kids
NO DEBT! (not even a mortgage in a couple months)
Lots of toys!!!
I am in good health (workout everyday and watch what I eat)

I don't really find my job rewarding but like the song says; "Don't confuse who you are with what you do to survive".

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:39:32 AM EDT

[#12]

It hasn't been publicly announced yet, but I'm actually the king of the world.

That's how good it is.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:42:14 AM EDT

[#13]

Any day you are vertical is a good day.

Got a good wife, a career, a home and both of us are healthy.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:43:39 AM EDT

[#14]

i love my wife, she's pregnant with our first, my job is pretty good and i have a great dog. what more is there?

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:46:03 AM EDT

[#15]

Hell yea. The decisions I make and have made were done with the future in mind. I am a happy dude, and simply expect to keep on being blessed.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:46:37 AM EDT

[#16]

I'm finally at the start of the happy path in life, I'm supposed to get my new work truck today and I'm marrying the woman that God wanted me to be with in a couple of months. Once I can provide our family with the security and stability that my new job will provide, then I'll be happy.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:47:32 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I have a great life although I made a lot more money a few years ago when I had my restaurant open but all in all , life is good !

ETA: Married 25 years to a hot woman and two great kids !

fixed it for you

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:48:14 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
i love my wife, she's pregnant with our first, my job is pretty good and i have a great dog. what more is there?

Snuggle cats.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:49:36 AM EDT

[#19]

Winter depresses me.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:50:20 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I have a great life.

Settled child support with the bitch ex, met my son after 16+ years, money in the bank, jobs lined up, like what I do......

+1

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:50:25 AM EDT

[#21]

My family is a constant joy to me. I love them infinitely.
Work sucks, money is tight, but I wake up every day thinking I am the luckiest son of a bitch who ever lived.

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:51:12 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I have a great life although I made a lot more money a few years ago when I had my restaurant open but all in all , life is good !

ETA: Married 25 years to a hot woman and two great kids !

fixed it for you

LOL !

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:51:24 AM EDT

[#23]

There is WAY to much going on in this world that can get you down and it is very easy to allow it to happen. Any day that you wake up, you have the opportunity to change your life, it is up to each of us to take that chance. Life is what you make out of it, you can be happy with where you are and realize that you have it better than most people in the world, or you can look at what other people have (love life, money, job, house, cars, etc) and lament that you do not have it.

I have come through some serious shit in my life, most of which has been posted on this forum at one point or another, and it has kept me depressed and even suicidal for a lot of years. Those are years I will never get back. There is not a damn thing I can do about my past, it happened, focusing on it only keeps me in despair. Why do that? It serves no purpose and helps nothing.

If people are reading this they have a computer or at the least a smart phone. Chances are you are somewhere warm while using said computer or phone. You could be living in a cardboard box under a bridge somewhere trying to stay warm around a burn barrel. You could be in the deepest parts of Africa existing each day trying to keep from getting raped by hoards of AIDS infected lunatics. You could be in China where you have zero say over any facet of your life.

Embrace what you do have and stop worrying about what you don't or what has already happened in your life. As the saying goes, if you put your problems in a pile with 100 other people, chances are you will pull your problem back out instead of someone elses.

*gets off his soapbox*

Posted: 1/28/2011 4:52:51 AM EDT

[#24]

I'm very happy.

There are some things I would like to be better, like the job thing, and the education thing... but I can do those, and we are well on our way.

No complaints, everything is great on the home front.

About to get dressed for an interview, that if I get the job would double my current income.

My wife is rockin' at work, doing well.

Our biggest problem right now is that the dog chews on the remote if we leave it out.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:02:23 AM EDT

[#25]

Life has been pretty good so far.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:03:50 AM EDT

[#26]

Happier than a pig in slop.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:08:13 AM EDT

[#27]

Not happy at all, I do not think I ever will be.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:17:01 AM EDT

[#28]

I'm 24 married with a 2 year old daughter. I wouldn't change a thing. I am very happy. Financially I am not where I would like to be. I am still happy though and wouldn't take anything for what I have. If the car business gets better the financial part will take care of it self. If it doesn't I am still happy and thankful for my wife, my child, and my god.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:20:09 AM EDT

[#29]

I am. I have family that loves me. I'm employed. My truck starts every morning. I have a room full of guns and I'm getting married next month.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:23:39 AM EDT

[#30]

I am.

After my wife passed away in late 2009, it was rough for a bit, but I had to keep looking forward, and something like that tends to put a lot of things into perspective.

Just the other day I went out to a Chinese place for lunch, by myself, and just sat there thinking about how great it was to just BE HERE, since my wife can't be here. How much all these little pleasures mean, and what she would give to be able to, for example, just sit in a little restaurant for an hour again back here on earth. I now know how important it is to be aware of the smallest, seemingly insignificant things and just ENJOY them, enjoy the experience of day to day living, and to blow off the unimportant stress-causing parts. I feel like I'm a better person after having gone through all that, and like where I am, although I don't like what I had to go through to get here.

I'm doing a lot more with my kids, I'm now dating a really nice girl who has her stuff together, I like my job, yeah... against all odds, I'm happy.

You just have to LET yourself be happy.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:27:15 AM EDT

[#31]

I was happy up till about an hour ago...then the Boss pissed me off

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:32:34 AM EDT

[#32]

I'm happy.

I'm single, not dating, buying guns and ammo, spending my time with my son, and doing what I want with no one by my mom to boss me around.

I am happy/content with where I am.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:32:47 AM EDT

[#33]

Happy. I was gone duck hunting for 5 days. Returned home last night after the wife had been on her own with the kids, and working from home while I was gone. Got lots of love from the kids and hot sex from the wife at bed time. Together 19 years. Life is good.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:34:36 AM EDT

[#34]

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:35:53 AM EDT

[#35]

happy you, happy me, happy all, happy day, happy happy fuckers.

/just sitting around all day laughing.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:44:22 AM EDT

[#36]

I am absolutely no where near where I thought life would take me when I as a snot nosed kid.

But at 51 when I wake in the morning and look in the mirror I can honestly say I am not ashamed of anything the guy looking back at me has done. I'm happy where life has taken me.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:48:16 AM EDT

[#37]

I can't say I am at the point i would have expected to be at in my life. But after a messy divorce and a seperation from some questionable friends i am back on track and happier today than I was 2 years ago.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:49:28 AM EDT

[#38]

i wouldn't describe myself as happy. i'm not completely miserable, but i'm not satisfied with where i'm at either.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:51:11 AM EDT

[#39]

Things are good, but it would be better if I didn't have to worry about the fkn gov trying to screw me at every oppurtunity.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:53:45 AM EDT

[#40]

Mostly happy. I'm intensely unhappy at my job, but everything else is going very well, and getting a job that gave me satisfaction would only improve that.

Posted: 1/28/2011 5:59:07 AM EDT

[#41]

Happy...happy...

<goes to find dictionary>

Posted: 1/28/2011 6:12:49 AM EDT

[#42]

I had been pretty unhappy for a pretty long time. I didn't find any satisfaction in my job and the options that it held for me were not appealing to say the least. It started to get better as I realized where I needed to go and what I needed to do to get there. Now I'm actually out of the old job situation and making positive progress down the path I've set for myself and am very hopeful for where I'm going. It's almost 180 degrees out of where I had been headed, but it's what I was interested in before I committed to that plan in the first place. I'm thrilled to be here and can't wait to see what's next.

A goal, the realistic plan to attain it and the well informed conviction that it is worth it make an enormous difference.

Posted: 1/28/2011 6:15:35 AM EDT

[#43]

My life could be a bit better. I'd like to do more travel and stuff. Overall I am happy though I have a healthy family and plenty of toys.

Posted: 1/28/2011 6:15:51 AM EDT

[#44]

I'm pretty happy!

If I could change anything, I'd like my wife to have less stress in her job/career, and I'd like to have less pain on a daily level - but overall, life is pretty damn good!

Posted: 1/28/2011 6:21:44 AM EDT

[#45]

Yes I'm happy. I have a lot to be happy about.

However there is always room for improvment and making things better. If I didn't have challenge then I'd be unhappy.

Posted: 1/28/2011 6:24:43 AM EDT

[#46]

Mostly. I am not happy about everything in my life, but enough that I realize how lucky I am. I've done a lot of the things I dreamed of doing, I have a comfortable life and a wonderful family and we all are healthy and pretty much angst-free. Do I want more? Sure. But I am happy with what I have.