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Are you happy..?

I still have tremendous anxiety in my work because of the nature of it.

And I am looking forward to being freed from it on a daily basis. Dealing with Provincial and Municipal Government, Healthcare, a raft of Acts and players who are in a naturally adversarial relationship is exhausting.

So there are many days when I am fully cognizant that happiness is not something we simply create at home, because outside influences can even consciously work to destroy happiness.

I am probably equally responsible for undoing others' happiness if it is gained at the expense of my clients or by putting their personal gain over equanimity. I am currently dealing with one of these situations now and have admitted to the others in the firm that this just isn't fun any more.

But today, Missy and I broke out a new white mouse to throw...and her utter joy has made me very happy.
 
How can that be true?

Whereas no one can argue credibly that we can live in uninterrupted happiness, we know that people can and do create happiness intentionally in myriad ways.

We schedule walks in nature, birthday parties, build Habitat homes, execute murderers, vote cads out of office, help wounded animals, sky dive, finger paint with the kids, bake Ziti, listen to mosquitoes hit the Bug Zapper, gossip, buy dessert, snort coke, shine our shoes, fart in funerals, and ten million other things we do because they have proven to make us happy.

It is true that you can make youself unhappy no matter how well things are going, and it is true that for a very few, they cannot become happy no matter what for either conditioning reasons or sickness, but the vast majority of people can and do actively manipulate life to encourage happiness through direct action.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
How can that be true?

Whereas no one can argue credibly that we can live in uninterrupted happiness, we know that people can and do create happiness intentionally in myriad ways.

We schedule walks in nature, birthday parties, build Habitat homes, execute murderers, vote cads out of office, help wounded animals, sky dive, finger paint with the kids, bake Ziti, listen to mosquitoes hit the Bug Zapper, gossip, buy dessert, snort coke, shine our shoes, fart in funerals, and ten million other things we do because they have proven to make us happy.

It is true that you can make youself unhappy no matter how well things are going, and it is true that for a very few, they cannot become happy no matter what for either conditioning reasons or sickness, but the vast majority of people can and do actively manipulate life to encourage happiness through direct action.
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There are many variables. It depends on what makes you happy, how you view happiness and how you react to it. I don't believe there are any right and wrong answers.

I can only offer my take on the subject. Happiness to me is a state of being, not a transitory emotion. There is a big difference between being happy that you are content, in love, enjoying your job and on my god you just won $10,000 on a scratch off AND being happy that your souffle didn't fall so now there's just enough time to let it cool so you can give it to that nice receptionist at the clinic where you go for your chemotherapy.
 
Peloso said:
There are many variables. It depends on what makes you happy, how you view happiness and how you react to it. I don't believe there are any right and wrong answers.

I can only offer my take on the subject. Happiness to me is a state of being, not a transitory emotion.
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^^^THIS^^^

Perfect summation.

I completely agree
 
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