What is happiness to you?

[zildjian133]

Do you even know what happiness is? Everytime someone says "Oh look you're happy" they seem so sure yet does it really matter? Or is it even stupid to be happy.... The only true happiness I've found is total obliviousness in the least serene environments like an amusement park. Do you feel happiness in total consciousness or are we too self loathing to be happy?

[trillobyite]

being happy makes one feel confident about their life and their current part in affairs. For that I prefer being happy over depression. Every person as a different thing that relaxes them and makes them content. For you it is the amusement park. For me, it is the noises of machinery, rain, and wind. People are not too self loathing ot be happy. I mean, havent you ever had a point in time where you could say "I am having the time of my life?"

[QreepyBORIS]

Admittedly, when I am happy, I don't think very well. I like thinking.

I didn't really read the thread, k.

[zildjian133]

For me, it is the noises of machinery, rain, and wind."

That's more of serenity which is slightly different than happiness by the amount of chemicals released in your brain. Happiness is short amounts of serotonin releases and no endorphin releasing. Serenity is endorphin releasage with very very little serotonin, almost as if a different emotion.

[evilbutterfly]

Come to think of it, I'm not really sure what makes me happy. When I play games, it doesn't really make me happy usually, it entertains me and distracts me from being bored. Usually people make me happy. Things they do just somehow get to me and give me that special happy feeling, which, to be honest, doesn't happen extremely often.

[Wayfaerer_]

I dont really think true happiness happens much, maybe contentness though, where you are satisfied in the way everything is at the moment.

[trillobyite]

For me, it is the noises of machinery, rain, and wind."

That's more of serenity which is slightly different than happiness by the amount of chemicals released in your brain. Happiness is short amounts of serotonin releases and no endorphin releasing. Serenity is endorphin releasage with very very little serotonin, almost as if a different emotion.

But what I am trying to say is, each person has a different stimulus for happiness. You said you are most happy and content when oblivious within an active environment. I am most happy and content within more serene environments and noises. Even if it is a different emotion I am experiencing, that emotion leads way to me being relaxed and happy.

[zildjian133]

So you're saying you'd be sitting in a serene environment with a big smile on your face because you're listening to ambient noises?

[trillobyite]

I don't express happiness with a big constant smile on my face...

But if you mean would I be relaxed, happy, and feeling good while listening to such ambient noises, then yes. I think everyone has a different definition of happiness, and this is mine.

[alainbryden]

I am happy when someone or something I care about is paying me special attention or compliments.
I am happy when I get alot of sleep and wake up to the cool sunlight.
I am happy when I can tell myself there is no work to do.
I am happy when I make someone I care about happy.
I am happy when I play with my puppy.
I am happy when I try hard and succeed.
I am happy when I can entertain myself and not feel like I've wasted important time.

I can't think of anything else that makes me happy the can't fit into that list. I'm sure lots of your things fit in there too.

[Snapps]

Truley this is sad, but...

I am happiest when I am alone, listening to my music, and browsing the forums.

When I am offline I feel like I left behind myself and I always want to go back, like the forums are the biggest community where we know eachother the best. I'm not nearly as close to people as I am online with my friends from the forums.

Yes I have the few offline but online and on forums is my home to me. And thusly is my true happiness, on the forums with my friends, no interuptions, and some very good music I like.

[Tantric]

I feel most happy when im with my g/f because we hardly see eachother at all...and i really care for her. I also feel happy when someone gets me something i want and doesnt mind at all...happiness is hard for me b/c those are the only times i feel good...

[zajac]

To me, happiness is just holding my g/f in my arms and knowing that we can be there for eachother through anything... She is my everything...

[buttonkiller]

i am happy when im on my computer playing diablo 2 as long as i can before i fall asleep
im also happy when i spend over 200$ on fake items and smile because now i can kill anyone with ease

[Tantric]

hey now that is just plain mean...i used to play that game a lot...and always had a grudge against those hacked items!!! well that is untill i got my own...haha' but i dont play anymore...i was happy also then just running around owning everyone in PK....