Happiness: Enough Already

I can't speak for everyone, but I know I am very unproductive when I am unhappy. When I am happy I strive to make others happy and don't let the little things get me down. Inevitably, there will be times when you will be unhappy and the reason experts are saying people get things done when they're unhappy is because they are simply trying to get happy again :).

We are humans, therefore we have feelings, which are one of the most beautiful things in this world. Who has the right to define what's normal and what's not, or when you should be happy and when not. There's enough garbage out there already, please try not let it affect you. Live you life according to your own feelins and your heart. No one, No one can tell you how to live your life but yourself. But however you live, you can not and have not right to do harm to others and to the planet in anyways.

I am a woman who worked for many years as a respiratory therapist in a major trauma center. One night, waiting for our fifth trauma to arrive, a head nurse came up to me and said, "Smile!" I had finally had it and said, "You wouldn't say that to a man!" It may have been unfair and pure frustration on my part, but I feel like somehow, women often aren't "allowed" to show authentic emotion on their face. Heaven forbid we shouldn't look pretty at all times. Don't let anyone force you to deny your real feelings!

To percim....... WHAT?

look yourself infront of a mirror. ask yourself if you are ugly enough that you can re-arrange maybe the ugliness in you.
be a statue, you will never be complaining.

Some people are very happy being miserable. I married and divorced one after 18 years of trying to make him happy. Call me "stupid", I do.

If there were not bad things, then with what would we have to measure the good? It is an inherant and continuous necessity that all things must have checks and balances. To everything there is an equal and opposite reaction. Though it isn't always immediate, this does not negate the existence of such. This does not mean that the 'opposite reaction' is negative, but it is opposite nonetheless. So it is a paradox. We strife to eliminate evil, yet it's its existence as a balance to good is inevitable. No one can be happy all the time. Like all processes in the universe emotions are eliptical,.. a cycle. It's ok to be sad sometimes, without hardship, we would haven nothing to look foward to.

Oh, man. I certainly think there is huge benefit to being sad and have feelings of rejection and the recognition of having not been successful in some certain undertaking. It's a big part of the music I write. It's also the reason that keeps me pushing forward. I can't tell you how many times I felt like throwing in the towel. Lots of things have not gone my way but as a result I look back and see that I used that as fuel to keep pushing. Now, I am about to finish my 3rd college degree and my band recently got signed - I've kept at it all, even though at times is seemed impossible and overwhelming along with depressing from time to time. But having those feelings just makes the feeling of success mean more to me. I don't think anybody gave me my success - I've earned it the hard way and feel very fulfilled as a result.
Tripster ~ www.tripthrottle.com

There was a song that went "don't worry be happy." I alway thought it should have said, "Don't worry it is OK to be Sad some of the time". We can not experience Joy ubless we experience sorrow. It does not matter that we are Sad. What matters is what we do when we are sad. Here is another thought. Feeling buried alive never die. We should never deny how we feel and be thankful for our emotions. More people commit sucide not because they are sad, but because society would make them feel guilty for being Sad. So my song song is " Don't worry It is OK to be sad" Once we allow are self to feel Sad, we then put ourself in a postion to feel happy. My opinion

There was a song that went "don't worry be happy." I alway thought it should have said, "Don't worry it is OK to be Sad some of the time". We can not experience Joy ubless we experience sorrow. It does not matter that we are Sad. What matters is what we do when we are sad. Here is another thought. Feeling buried alive never die. We should never deny how we feel and be thankful for our emotions. More people commit sucide not because they are sad, but because society would make them feel guilty for being Sad. So my song song is " Don't worry It is OK to be sad" Once we allow are self to feel Sad, we then put ourself in a postion to feel happy. My opinion

Some time I am happy and some times I am blue . Is this the reason I am in exelent health, or is it , my discovery of how to increase the blood flow(two way's) to keep my arteries clear, and prevent any infestation to begin. 11/23/1923 JB

I am chronically depressed. And I couldn't be happier about it. I have been this way for all of my 55 years. I don't think that all people are born to be happy. I really think. I really feel. It's just me. I don't think that all people are 'happy' in the same way.

I've never equated sadness with depression. As someone who has recurring depression, I can easily tell the difference between "feeling sad" and "being depressed." In fact, I can be depressed without feeling sad at all. Depression seems to happen pretty-much independent of life-events and environmental changes that could make one "sad." The other thing that stands out to me is that medication isn't going to make a non-depressed person feel happy. They're still going to feel sad. A little extra seratonin doesn't take away the pain of a long-term relationship ending, or a death in the family. I agree with the general sentiment of this article, but I'd be cautious with making a distinction between "sad" and "depressed."

I've never equated sadness with depression. As someone who has recurring depression, I can easily tell the difference between "feeling sad" and "being depressed." In fact, I can be depressed without feeling sad at all. Depression seems to happen pretty-much independent of life-events and environmental changes that could make one "sad." The other thing that stands out to me is that medication isn't going to make a non-depressed person feel happy. They're still going to feel sad. A little extra seratonin doesn't take away the pain of a long-term relationship ending, or a death in the family. I agree with the general sentiment of this article, but I'd be cautious with making a distinction between "sad" and "depressed."

I can't tell if this article is "pro" health care companies arguing to reduce benefits to mentally unstable clients, or if it's anti-company bottom line. I know that this country is definitely over-medicated, and that's due to optimizing work output for each employee. Euphoric employees that are never distraught over life, make the best worker bees. But, over use of medical benefits also eats into the bottom line of companies. So, where to find the balance? We will not find a cure for this issue until we get off our "Roid-rage" form of capitalism.

Van Gogh and LIncoln had syphilis. Not exactly routine sadness.

As a psychologist, I see people all the time who suffer with depressive symptoms. It's remarkable to me how commonly I say, "Well, that sounds like a pretty normal reaction to what you're going through," and for the patient to be completely astounded by this. Ours has truly become a fix-it-now culture. All sadness is not a depressive disorder, diagnostic criteria notwithstanding.

The adjective "happy" is one of the most inflationary adjectives in the entire English language. Look at the endings of many a "happy hour", and a shallow expression like "don't worry, be happy". Why is it that at a period like carnival, prevalent in some parts of the globe, more people die in the midst or the result of revelry than at any other time of the year, mostly from a compulsion to be "emotianally up"? The insight that suffering is an integral part of human existence and cannot be scientifically annihiated is as old as mankind itself. Any "industry of happiness" is doomed to end on the trashheap of any culture that really deserves the name.

Most people confuse happiness with hedonism. They want to be high all the time. Happiness is the ability to be satisfied with life, that is the result of self mastery. People who have learned to master their life, accept the ups and downs as opportunities, and still for content when faced with life's sorrows. For an easy guide to finding happiness go to www.happinessinfive.com