what makes and keeps you happy in life.

[~ThaGame~]

Hopefully they are wrong and I enjoy the "real life" better than the college life of booze, studying and trying to chase skirt.

did i miss something here? college is supposed to be the best time of your life man, thats the only time when you shouldn't worry about getting on to better things

 

[The Red Dragon]

I'm not on anti depressants

Revex, Ignorance may be bliss in most cases but not all..some people are genuinely happy, drug free. Plus, your inference comes from the examination of Western culture...I do admit people in our culture are more prone to depression due to the way it was designed but our civilization doesn't represent the rest of the world.

 

[got big?]

what makes and keeps me happy in life is the hope that I will find something in life that will make and keep me happy..

 

[gonelifting]

I`m happiest when I hang out with friends and family and everyone leaves with a genuinely good feeling of having had a good time and conversation. You can see it in their eyes, in their smile, as they tell you they enjoyed the evening talking and being together.

There`s nothing like having a glass of wine or a beer with loved ones in your backyard having a BBQ or something, talking and laughing, knowing everyone is genuinely enjoying themselves.

 

[pitbullstl]

You forgot to mention one thing

Most of the people who replied that they are happy on this thread......

Are on anti-depressents.... enough said... lets be realists here.

at the risk of sounding redundant......and because I just put her to bed.....and she hugged me and told me she loved me.......my little girl is my anti-depressant........she gives a better high than any drug I have ever sampled.......today has been a good dad day.....so sorry if I am cheesing out........

 

[big_bad_buff]

exactly bro. I get the same lines from people. the reality of it is that life sucks. it's always the next thing that will me you happy, my father told me that not 2 months ago. he screwed up his marriage of 25 years. mostly because he went back to school because he though it would make him happier and complete with himself and life. He said he was always after the next thing to make him happy. oh well

I'm totally right in the same place. I often tell people I can't wait till I'm finished with school and can just get a job and get on with everything, house, family ect...

But everyone I tell this to that is "on with their lives" tells me that enjoy being in college as much as you can, cause it gets worse.

Hopefully they are wrong and I enjoy the "real life" better than the college life of booze, studying and trying to chase skirt.

 

[DcupSheepNipples]

Pittbulls, training, black ops, IMINT, HUMINT, and Flash!

and Pussy does not count, thats a given!

 

[revexrevex]

at the risk of sounding redundant......and because I just put her to bed.....and she hugged me and told me she loved me.......my little girl is my anti-depressant........she gives a better high than any drug I have ever sampled.......today has been a good dad day.....so sorry if I am cheesing out........

You're a good man bro. You probably had your fun earlier in life, and now settled for a more stable life. I know what you mean, part of my research for my psychology degree involved working with a psychiatrist who would advice families.

Many of these parents lived a tottally different life with their children, their kids were basically their focus, they were the reason to live!

Now you compare the lives of the pairs who could not have children (either because of choice and because of inability)./...... and their lives are empty....... without any sparks.....

My uncle and my aunt never had any children, so I can really consider its a personal issue. I can see how empty their lives are.

Children are one of the things that bring us out of our sadness

 

[jnuts]

IMINT, HUMINT

Makes me happy when it's right.....(but that isn't often)

 

[Mengy]

Now you compare the lives of the pairs who could not have children (either because of choice and because of inability)./...... and their lives are empty....... without any sparks.....

My uncle and my aunt never had any children, so I can really consider its a personal issue. I can see how empty their lives are.

Children are one of the things that bring us out of our sadness

I hope this isn’t a generalized statement Rev, because if it is then it’s a horrible outlook you have there. Not everyone gets married for the sole purpose of having children, some people get married just to be together because it makes them happy. My wife and I are never going to have children because we don’t want to, it was a choice we made together when we decided that we don’t need children in our lives. I hope you don’t think our life is empty because that would be very far from the truth. Children are not like an “instant happiness” pill.

And the whole happiness is just the absence of sadness deal, well I don’t agree with that either. There is no “default” state of mind, it is just how you feel at any one time. And it doesn’t have to be one or the other either, contentment falls squarely in between.

And one of my uncle’s and aunt’s also never had children. They are in their late fifties now, and I honestly don’t know a happier couple. Your logic is flawed…