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I am in the mood to hear what makes people happy, when and where they are happiest, and if said people are happy now. Also, where would your dream happy place be?


For me, getting closer to God and nature makes me happy. There are instances when people make me happy, but mostly, I am only truly happy when I am out in the woods, or on the lake, or hiking, and just enjoying what God has created. Then, to sit there amidst the beauty, and to feel God and nature around me is so joyous. My soul longs to be out alone in the wilderness again. I am slightly happy now, but I would be far happier if I could just be away, out in a forest, far from towns, and praising God. Thinking about it almost makes me feel homesick.

If I could live any where right now, the happiest place I could think of would be a small village just below the mountains. In the fall, the trees on the lower part of the mountains would turn beautiful golden colors that glow bright, even at night. In the winter, those trees would rest, while the pines keep their beautiful green coat. There would be enough snow to keep a slight fluffy blanket on the ground all winter long. During the spring, the snow would melt and a gentle brook would carve its way down the mountain, through a meadow, into a forest, and then into a small river. The meadow would have all sorts of wildflowers, full of purples and yellows. After school, children would run out and play in the meadow until dinner time. During the summer, it would be warm, but not too terrible hot. I'd go fishing down where the brook meets the river.

The village would be small, about 30 or so people. It would be the type of village you see on an RPG game, like Final Fantasy. There'd be a small shop, an inn, and maybe a pub. There'd be a tiny little church, and only a few homes. The streets would be brick, and there'd be no traffic there. Everyone is kind, and helps each other, but keeps to themselves as much as possible. I'd have a home, with a nice little den with a fire place, where I could go and meditate on scripture, or just look out the window and look in awe of the nature around me.

If such a place exists, I so desperately want to live there. There'd never be a sad day go by for me. Such a place is perfection, and unfortunately, a place only the mind can truly imagine.

So what about you all?

I am in the mood to hear what makes people happy


Serotonin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin). Endorphins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorphins) are nice too.

Severe agonizing pain is good for producing the second. For that, I recommend one of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habanero).

Best. Happy Pain. Ever.

Edit: It's not just the chemical effect, but the experience of extreme pain while suffering no actual damage exemplifies the "free your mind" sort of concept whereby it is made explicitly clear that what our senses tell us about reality ("the inside of my mouth is literally on fire") is not necessarily the case. Philosophical insight via eating is really nifty.

I actually feel 'happy' if I can use that term, but a better one would be satisfied, when I don't have any contradictions in my thinking, therefore whenever I read new material I like to place that within my thinking which makes it more full. May sound strange, but I am quite an ordered person, and I very much like to be stimulated by philosophical ideas, but more importantly to properly digest them into my view of the world/universe. So in this way I get extremely agitated when I have not read everything relevant and new on a given subject (which causes me no end to annoying when dealing with Marx and Lenin), I feel happy when I feel I have completed the reading of that area, and my view of it is ordered and set in my thinking, so yeah I tend to be pretty dogmatic. I have to have everything set out in my head.

-Happiness is just a temporary chemical inbalance of the true state of mind - Lucifur, Posion Elves. ;)

Reading makes me happy, specifically books that are well written enough to transport me into their pages.

Sex
Good food
Cuddling
Tea
My cats
A good book
Chatting with friends

All are 100% guaranteed to make me happy even on the worst of days.

Other peoples sorrow... Yes! Yesss! Oh, let me taste your tears! Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet!

My cats
Being told that I've cheered someone up a lot/made them happy
Everyone just seemingly randomly complimenting me
Going to church
Other things that I might be forgetting

the sun makes me happy... being outside when its sunny just makes everything so much better. seeing the beauty of nature also makes me happy... its just better when its sunny :P

my girlfriend and my family also make me happy. as do cats, good food, and laughter... laughing myself, or making others laugh :)

Depends if you're meaning 'happy' or 'content', the latter being a long-term evaluation of how far towards your ultimate goals you are. I can be temporarily happy, based on current situation, recent events and current mood. I am not currently content with my life, however, there are many things still to be achieved and resolved.

Things that make me happy:

Music
A good film
Reading interesting books/forums/emails
Friends
Thought
Nature

Many of those can also produce the opposite effect.

Being around certain people, being on my own, teaching my creature to shit on children in Black and White. All happy things.

Happiness is relative to the situation.

If I have a toothache and the dentist gives me novocain and then fixes the tooth - the relief from the pain and the sure knowledge that it won't come again makes me happy.

If I've been outdoors on a hot day, working up a sweat and getting dirty, then a hot shower, a cold drink, and a clean, cool bed make me happy.

What makes me happy depends a great deal on what I'm doing and who I'm with.

Sometimes, frequently, being alone makes me happy.

I'm really a very simple organism.

Sex
Good food
Cuddling
Tea
My cats
A good book
Chatting with friends

All are 100% guaranteed to make me happy even on the worst of days.

ditto, but add hanging out with my family when they aren't being annoying.

can't remember. being with my best friends probably, but not in all circumstances.

football
alone time
music
my friends
thinking about the future
my job
going to the Masjid
pretty people

Music. Pretty much gurenteed.

Happiness is a bong with fresh weed. :)

Happiness is a bag of chips that aren't crushed.

Happiness is getting a max title in Guild Wars.

Happiness is finding new yaoi anime to watch. :)

*sings*
"Happiness... is a warm gun" http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Headshot.gif

Drawing
Writing
Anything creative
Having the outcome of the above come out as I hoped.
Reading
Sunshine
My Cookie
My dragons
Asian boys
Jogging
Napping
The end of kendo practise
Independant learning
Boys love
Sugar
The internet
The point durring intoxication an hour before violent illness
A fresh, untouched snowfall and the cleansing it gives the city.
Solitude
The voices in my head
Laughing
Being with the people I treasure most
Buying said treasured people gifts
The first three months of a new relationship
Fantasizing about anything and everything

... ummm.... >> yes, that should cover it for now :D

I am in the mood to hear what makes people happy, when and where they are happiest, and if said people are happy now. Also, where would your dream happy place be?


For me, getting closer to God and nature makes me happy. There are instances when people make me happy, but mostly, I am only truly happy when I am out in the woods, or on the lake, or hiking, and just enjoying what God has created. Then, to sit there amidst the beauty, and to feel God and nature around me is so joyous. My soul longs to be out alone in the wilderness again. I am slightly happy now, but I would be far happier if I could just be away, out in a forest, far from towns, and praising God. Thinking about it almost makes me feel homesick.

If I could live any where right now, the happiest place I could think of would be a small village just below the mountains. In the fall, the trees on the lower part of the mountains would turn beautiful golden colors that glow bright, even at night. In the winter, those trees would rest, while the pines keep their beautiful green coat. There would be enough snow to keep a slight fluffy blanket on the ground all winter long. During the spring, the snow would melt and a gentle brook would carve its way down the mountain, through a meadow, into a forest, and then into a small river. The meadow would have all sorts of wildflowers, full of purples and yellows. After school, children would run out and play in the meadow until dinner time. During the summer, it would be warm, but not too terrible hot. I'd go fishing down where the brook meets the river.

The village would be small, about 30 or so people. It would be the type of village you see on an RPG game, like Final Fantasy. There'd be a small shop, an inn, and maybe a pub. There'd be a tiny little church, and only a few homes. The streets would be brick, and there'd be no traffic there. Everyone is kind, and helps each other, but keeps to themselves as much as possible. I'd have a home, with a nice little den with a fire place, where I could go and meditate on scripture, or just look out the window and look in awe of the nature around me.

If such a place exists, I so desperately want to live there. There'd never be a sad day go by for me. Such a place is perfection, and unfortunately, a place only the mind can truly imagine.

So what about you all?

Relaxation makes me happy, but for true, mind-numbing, full-blown happiness, nothing better than dancing with a girl you like at a school dance.

The thought that I'm going to university in 17 days :D

Realising I've found something amazing other than happiness, satisfaction and meaning.

Something to do with ideals and such, can't put it into words.

Also:-

Development/Gain/Acceleration
Power
Pain
Imagination
Intimacy
Sadness
Salvation
Damnation
Ascension/personal growth
Inspiration
Cynicism
Skepticism
Possibilities
Trying to do the impossible
Trying to imagine the unimaginable
Making love (to me that means it has a permanant effect)

The list goes on...

Perfection. Perfection in anything makes me happy, as does being around people whom I genuinely care for, and who care for me; if truth be told, happiness isn't an emotion I'm greatly familiar with in the previous few years anyway.

Happiness is the state that exists between the moment one sets the perfect plan into motion and the moment one begins to notice how horribly flawed the whole idea was in the first place.

What makes me happy (in no particular order):

Praying
Reading
Writing
Dancing
Spending time with family
Going to church
Rainy days
Winter
Snow
The city
The country
The suburbs
Thinking
Christmas
Fantasizing about College:D:D:D
School
Learning
Math
Science
College
College
College
Surfing the net
Running around like a lunatic
College
Laptops
Electronics
The simple things like a kind stranger giving a helping hand or smiling at me
Making new friends
Creating web sites (at least, trying to create websites. I refuse to stoop to the level of making "easy" websites)
Creating short movie clips with my friends
Planning video games and software I will make after I get out of college
Fantasizing about becoming a graphic designer
Listening to music
Giving gifts to my friends
Dinner with my family
Spending time in a quiet cafe, sipping my drink-of-choice and reading a book
Playing video games
Jumping in puddles
Taking a warm bath
Go bananas:D
Shooting stuff :gundge:
Summer days
Laughing hysterically
Helping someone
Giving to charity
Singing "Duckies Go Quack Quack" at the top of my lungs
Halloween parties
...college


Wow. That was a rather long list. There are a lot of things that make me happy.:D

Being around my friends, and good, productive, intelligent arguments about politics and philosophy.

A cookie for anyone who can say who said this made him happy:
“...to cut my enemies to pieces, drive them before me, seize
their possessions, witness the tears of those who are dear to them and to
embrace their wives and daughters.”

The village would be small, about 30 or so people. It would be the type of village you see on an RPG game, like Final Fantasy. There'd be a small shop, an inn, and maybe a pub. There'd be a tiny little church, and only a few homes. The streets would be brick, and there'd be no traffic there. Everyone is kind, and helps each other, but keeps to themselves as much as possible. I'd have a home, with a nice little den with a fire place, where I could go and meditate on scripture, or just look out the window and look in awe of the nature around me.

If such a place exists, I so desperately want to live there. There'd never be a sad day go by for me. Such a place is perfection, and unfortunately, a place only the mind can truly imagine.

I'm sorry to say this, but...

...small shop is perfectly possible. However, having an inn or a pub would be hard with few, if anybody, coming through the town and with people mostly keeping to themselves.

I do however, already live in a small village, 30 people or so (more is my guess). It has nature close by as well. Unfortunately, the small shop we had closed (you can bike down to the local supermarket though), there's no inn, pub, church (again, you can bike down to the church if you'd want... inn and pub as well really), it does have traffic and a lot of it in the mornings and evenings (only really an issue during rushhour). No brick streets, but people are kind and yet keep to themselves.

Close enough for you? :p We're renting a room out... :D

To me, happyness is:
Coming home, being able to close the door behind me, unplug the phone, kill the cell and finally being alone and noone being able to disturb my peace (except of my cats of course, but that's something completely different :p )...

Having taken a good photo...

An undisturbed hour of playing guitar...

A good book...

Good strong coffee by the gallon...

Chocolate and weasels!

Can't talk about what makes me happy. It's against the first two rules.

I will say this, however. Soap.

Serotonin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin). Endorphins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorphins) are nice too.

Severe agonizing pain is good for producing the second. For that, I recommend one of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habanero).

Best. Happy Pain. Ever.

Edit: It's not just the chemical effect, but the experience of extreme pain while suffering no actual damage exemplifies the "free your mind" sort of concept whereby it is made explicitly clear that what our senses tell us about reality ("the inside of my mouth is literally on fire") is not necessarily the case. Philosophical insight via eating is really nifty.

Those cause you pain? Wuss.

Try garlic chutney mixed with wasabi. A truly unholy combination of spice and raw heat. Delicious.

So as not to get smited for spamming:

I've always viewed Happiness as a sort of sustained idyllic state where everything feels ok and butterflies roam free over open fields. As a result, I've always viewed it as unreasonable, and the effort required in reaching that state requires too much effort.

I prefer prolonged contentment with bursts of true, empty joy, detatched from any need to sustain itself or to do anything other than to revel in the moment.

If I had to pick a place to be happy, it'd be in a small house by a stream, surrounded by meadow and forest. Total seclusion, and yet total immersion in a peaceful environment.

I am in the mood to hear what makes people happy, when and where they are happiest, and if said people are happy now. Also, where would your dream happy place be?

I don't know what makes me happy.

My dream happy place would be with a friend, or rather, former friend, whom I still care about. A lot.

And no, I'm not happy right now. I haven't been happy in a while.

*sings*
"Happiness... is a warm gun" http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Headshot.gif

http://www.warmpistola.com/

Long live Bill Maxwell!

"Scenario"

Can't talk about what makes me happy. It's against the first two rules.

I will say this, however. Soap.

Selling our own fat asses back to us.

... I am Jack's RAGING bile duct.