Are you happy?

waiting for what

 

I don't know if happy is the thing to be. I'm pretty sure you're always going to run into something you find adverse. But then if you accept everything, you're just a nobody. Maybe just sometimes happy really is the best thing. But generally speaking I would say if I had to choose whether I like or dislike life I would choose like.

 

rarely happy...but im good at hiding it in real life

 

...not so good online?

 

Nah, not too happy actually. It's surely not because the world is troubled. In fact, I'm not sure how to incorporate the world's problems into my own little selfish existence. I can see the homeless guy down the street and give him my recyclables, and feel we're helping each other. Otherwise, everything is so far out of my control. Even closer to home, much is out of my control. Such as, my husband's unemployment, his unloving ways, our crapped out marriage, my 18 y/o daughter away at college, my own unemployment, our dwindling retirement portfolio, my 15 y/o not trying at math, and that the dog keeps staining my carpet with his barf. So what did I do? Joined a tennis league, and play tennis nearly 7 days a week. THAT I can control. I get glimpses of happy when I reach a milestone. But it's only an event.....not a state of mind.

 

That burst of happiness you get after doing cardio and realllly pushing yourself - the high is unmatchable.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spVBy5FxZcg"]Suicide Fever - AA - YouTube

 

i'm not happy with romanticizing aggressiveness, let alone calling conventionality a virtue. but i am happy recognizing that diversity is the nature of reality, whatever tyranny that might inconvenience. even if i grumble when it inconveniences me in order to do so.

policies are created by decisions made by people who are motivated by incentives that all of our priorities combined statistically together create.

the individuals who decide brutal policies are certainly culpable for doing so.
but its still up to all of us, to think about the incentives our own choices and priorities are creating.

 

It is modern technology that has given us the ability to be constantly exposed to bad news from all over the world. It's good to be well-informed, but there is a temptation to take it too far. We're going to have to learn how to draw some boundaries. It doesn't make the world a better place if we all make ourselves chronically depressed about things we can't change.

As for me, I draw the line short of Spain. As someone who has never been there and has no plans to visit, I don't need a lot of detail about what goes on there.

The world is too big and too complicated for any one person to keep up with everything and care deeply about everything. You have to decide for yourself what is worthy of your time and effort, and where you have a reasonable chance of making a difference in the world. That isn't being indifferent or heartless; just realistic.

Most days are pretty good for me. :sunny:

 

ive no idea actually..i made it up

im pretty sure i have mild aspergers and really cant tell what people are ever thinking

 

I know you did. It does feel like you are like this sometimes :computer: but I won't/can't analyse it any further than that...I'm sure somewhere inside you are :sunny:

 

What has the world got to do with our personal welbeing?

 

Nope haven't been happy since Jerry passed. Where is the love I once knew? What happened to the love? Where is the compassion?

 

Do you not feel connected to the Earth and other human beings?

I feel sad for the Earth, perhaps for selfish reasons, after all it is the only home we have.

I feel sad when I think of all the species we share this rock with that are extinct, or going to be due to mankind's selfish, destructive nature.

I feel sad for all the suffering in the world, we have enough for everyone in the world to have shelter, food, water, etc., and yet so many have nothing.

So yeah, what happens to the world and those that inhabit it effect me on a personal level.

 

I don't draw any particular line like that (perhaps a circle around America teehee j/k), certainly not in Europe. Yes, how dare I to care more about places closer to me right but I can see myself very well in Karens post.
It's some kind of pragmatism and without today's media and technology we would most likely give much less fucks so to speak about other peoples problems in far away places.
I think for the majority to concern yourself with strangers/other societies than your own and make an effort to help them (just by donating one coin for instance ) is a relative new thing and could grow as long as globalization increases.

 

Only when the last tree has been cut down,

Only when the last river has been poisoned,

Only when the last fish has been caught,

Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

 

The paper money is pretty edible. On a more serious note: I think people are finding that out sooner more often already. Now, if they could all act on that but unfortunately not all can. I see people trying to make a change as well though. I think it's encouraging.

 

Butt Salad

 

eh spain? c'mon look at what is happening in syria, remember the revolt that happened in iran?

look at the whole middle east in general dude. i say, just start shooting nukes over there.

 

You must be a real simpleton if you seriously think that would solve any issues. Just one nuke on the mass consumers of Florida though.... hmmm