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Posted: 9/11/2005 5:35:32 PM EDT

Well?

Are you happy?

Do you know why, or why not?

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:37:03 PM EDT

[#1]

People who argue that the individual is powerless and cannot be trusted piss me off.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:37:18 PM EDT

[#2]

yeah, because my shift at the dorm front desk is done in 20 minutes

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:38:05 PM EDT

[#3]

Pretty happy for a gimpy ol' grouch.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:38:09 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Well?

Are you happy? No

Do you know why, or why not? No clue

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:40:45 PM EDT

[#5]

I am thrilled!
Yesterday was my 10th anniversary with my wife!

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:40:49 PM EDT

[#6]

Are you happy? No

Do you know why, or why not? I have an idea...

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:41:03 PM EDT

[#7]

nope, miserable. thanks so much for asking though...............

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:42:11 PM EDT

[#8]

I'm kinda pissed as usual

reason fuggen trans won't come apart.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:43:15 PM EDT

[#9]

Yes, but then again, I could be happy face down in a mud puddle.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:44:40 PM EDT

[#10]

Yes, everyday.

Happy to be alive, to be married, to be serving our country.

It's a natural chemical thing with me as I wake up happy nearly every day. Life is too dang short to spend it not happy. Most things aren't worth worrying about.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:44:55 PM EDT

[#11]

I am comfortable. I have a career I love, a career that is lucrative, and a young lovely that is in Emory University. What's not to be happy about.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:46:14 PM EDT

[#12]

About as happy as I can be.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:47:47 PM EDT

[#13]

... yes, almost chronically

... but I sometimes classify it in the same category as those clinically depressed. At times, I wonder why I'm as happy as I am - I think it stems from gratefulness

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:47:54 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Well?

Are you happy?

Do you know why, or why not?

Consider the Lilly.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:47:58 PM EDT

[#15]

I am filled with joy.

I serve the Risen Savior.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:48:50 PM EDT

[#16]

Lately, no.

Problems with the girlfriend.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:50:48 PM EDT

[#17]

Yes

I know why.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:52:26 PM EDT

[#18]

No.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:52:56 PM EDT

[#19]

Hell, yeah!
I have a fulfilling job that pays me well.
I have a boyfriend that is so perfect for me it is scary.
I have a home that I just bought last month.
And I have a loving, supportive family.

I'm in one of those rare moments in life when everything is going fabulously, all at the same time.

Just waiting for the ball to drop.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:54:02 PM EDT

[#20]

Sometimes.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:57:35 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Sometimes.

I sure was happy after eating at your house last night!

Seriously, I am very happy. Great job now, finally moved back to Florida after an 8 year sentence in TN, have almost all the gun-related toys I want (if the pesky ATF would get off their asses and get my paperwork approved I'd be in heaven) and my wife joins me after 8 weeks away from me in October.

Life is good.

Posted: 9/11/2005 5:58:06 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
No. If I was earning a lot of money, I would be happy. If I was earning just decent money, I would be a content and happy man. Talking about $3000/month. I am fortunate that that is my only shortcoming in life.

I heard a couple of psychological researchers on NPR's Science Friday talking about happiness. I've heard similar comments before. Although money causes many people stress, an increase in income apparently does not change many people's "level of happiness." They said that if people are worriers, they tend to stay that way, and supplant worrying over income with some other worry.

I didn't hear the whole thing, but there is a certain level of median income I think you need to in order to not be stressed out.

Posted: 9/11/2005 6:00:00 PM EDT

[#23]

Normally? Happy....right now? Not so much. Just got a call from the wife that the dishwasher is spewing water onto the kitchen floor!!!

Now, I bet the water will go right thru to the basement where I just finished the drop ceiling and drip water on my new handmade oak bar....this isn't what I had in mind when I built my wet bar!!!!!

Posted: 9/11/2005 6:23:49 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Quoted:
No. If I was earning a lot of money, I would be happy. If I was earning just decent money, I would be a content and happy man. Talking about $3000/month. I am fortunate that that is my only shortcoming in life.

I heard a couple of psychological researchers on NPR's Science Friday talking about happiness. I've heard similar comments before. Although money causes many people stress, an increase in income apparently does not change many people's "level of happiness." They said that if people are worriers, they tend to stay that way, and supplant worrying over income with some other worry.

I didn't hear the whole thing, but there is a certain level of median income I think you need to in order to not be stressed out.

I've heard that discussion with WWII era Germans. Their concensus is once you have reasonaly stable source of food, shelter and clothing; money starts having dimishing returns.

Posted: 9/11/2005 6:38:52 PM EDT

[#25]

no

Posted: 9/11/2005 6:44:27 PM EDT

[#26]

NO!

Posted: 9/11/2005 6:49:28 PM EDT

[#27]

Despite having been thrown to the curb by the love of my life a few months ago I am very happy.

Why?

I have a life. I have a burgeoning academic and professional career. I have wonderful friends and family that I spend time with. I have a brand new Springfield National Match M1A and 1000 rounds of Argentine surplus. I have a busty mistress. I live in a beautiful place. And even when I am grading a bunch of freshman calc exams (like right now - 100% failure rate so far) I still remember to enjoy myself.

Posted: 9/11/2005 6:58:12 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Well?

Are you happy?

Do you know why, or why not?

In a word, no.

Why? I have spent so much of my life seeing to other peoples needs, I sort of left mine behind.

Funny thing, I recently got a new position where I work, as a supervisor, and now I spend my day doing pretty much what I want, and not busting my ass chasing all the loose ends and putting out fires for the coworkers. I seem to enjoy working more than weekends.

Maybe this will rub off into a better private life.. fullclip

Edit to add, It's like I forgot how to have fun, if that makes any sense.... fullclip

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:08:30 PM EDT

[#29]

Yes, I went to the range three times this weekend.

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:09:57 PM EDT

[#30]

I'm happy, not as happy as I could be though. Reality bites me in the ass every now and then.

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:12:14 PM EDT

[#31]

No.
Yes.

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:12:55 PM EDT

[#32]

No. My life was shattered when I was barred from entry in the USMC... damned seizure from 2yrs old.

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:12:59 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
I'm happy, not as happy as I could be though. Reality bites me in the ass every now and then.

Every day for me, it bites.

So, no, I'm not happy.

Thats just life.

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:14:12 PM EDT

[#34]

I'm generally gay.

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:30:20 PM EDT

[#35]

I prefer to be content with enough moments on either side to appreciate the difference.

I will say, though, that this has been a particularly rough year.

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:39:08 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
No. If I was earning a lot of money, I would be happy. If I was earning just decent money, I would be a content and happy man. Talking about $3000/month. I am fortunate that that is my only shortcoming in life.

That won't do it, trust me.

Money will just enable you to buy a bunch of useless
shit that will allow you to keep your mind off your
tragically common and meaningless life.

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:40:16 PM EDT

[#37]

No

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:41:43 PM EDT

[#38]

no

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:43:14 PM EDT

[#39]

What is there to be happy about

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:46:27 PM EDT

[#40]

No, I keep thinking I should have more cause I see people with more and overlook people with less thinking they did it to themselves. I need a new attitude.

Posted: 9/11/2005 7:46:51 PM EDT

[#41]

Kind of a silly question to be asking organic pain collectors racing towards oblivion, don't you think?

Posted: 9/11/2005 8:29:27 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
No.
Yes.

+1

Posted: 9/11/2005 8:31:26 PM EDT

[#43]

Pretty happy, just have the pressure of deciding what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Posted: 9/11/2005 8:41:35 PM EDT

[#44]

No I'm not happy. I'm pretty frustrated with school dragging on, stupid roommate, family problems, mom keeps telling me about problems with my step-father and how she's tired of it, and I see the toll it's taking on my younger siblings. Not to mention trying be motivating for them so they don't end up losers.

Did I mention school is taking forever? There is nothing here for me anymore and I'm seriously thinking about just gettign my AS and finishing my BS when I get to TX because I'm so tired of all this crap

Posted: 9/11/2005 10:09:09 PM EDT

[#45]

Not fully but life is pretty good right now. I guess I would say I am happier than I have ever been in my life and if I were happy all the time I would have never accomplished shit.