The Pursuit of the Blissful

When I found your article, started to read it and you made alot of sense when writing theses words, "We're so ambitious about things, including happiness, and that's ironic because in order to be happy you have to be less ambitious.". Unfortunaly throughtout the history of the world, we see the humans trying to find happyness. But the answters is very clear, we don't have to search to much, our Creator and owner, gave us the book most published in the world, the Bible. A magnificent piece of work! Inside is how to find the real happiness and real life. =)

How ridiculous, how can one person measure happiness? If my IQ was lower, I believe, I'd be happier....there's something in stupidity. How presumptuous, that one man can believe he understands how people feel. The author of this article is a complete moron....sitting in judgement of what he can not even begin to comprehend! This is an opinion peice with no relevence. Please do not publish such an article again.

This is idiotic, the mere thought of happiness can only be measured by the individual. There are always winners and losers in every society. I sometimes wish my IQ allowed me to be happier, the joy of not knowing how stupid I am would be bliss. Even to have one conviction would be nice! How can one understand or even have a clue to who is happiest, this article is pure bunk. How can one rationalize that they can determine what true happiness is?

Don't worry be Happy..Life is temporary anyway..Enjoy it while you are here...and pay it forward ...In other words "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
Make others happy . It's catchy

I think happiness is closer related to freedom of expression than to anything else.
How stuporous if you cant say what you think...

I think happiness is closeer related to freedom of expression than to anything else.
How stuporous if you cant say what you think,,,,

In studying history, there were your adventurous europeans who explored and those who thought it was a death sentance. the adventourous ones are the ones who made it here to the US and Canada, remember the vikings were in canada 500 years before columbus arrived in the US. So we come from adventurous stock that has lots of those go get 'um personality traits. My irish family came here during the potato famine and the german side came at the turn of the last century. it was still a long boat ride even if it was easier than columbus' trip. I do agree however that we americans have lost sight of some very important things in our desire to "get the american dream" like family friends and down time to just enjoy and take in life. so much so that the wonderful government wants our children at age 3 now for national preschool, gee where in history did that start? oh yeah germany and we know what they produced. not a good move for our country. we need to stop keeping up with the jones and stay home with our children and build a better nation of people so we will have future generations coming up with new ideas. public schools kill creative thinking and turns the kids into robots. lets hear it for homeschooling.

This was an interesting story to read. I wanted to read it because lately I have been feeling more"happy". I contribute this to the fact that I have decided to be the polar opposite of my nature. I have decided to tell my negative self positive things and I force positive comments to come out of my mouth. I am focusing on being solution oriented instead of settling on feeling and being defeated. It is working. I have been happier in general and am more satisfied. I write a to-do list every morning and pick my battles for the day. I tell myself at the end of the day. What is done, is done and I know I stuck to my plan and feel more satisfied with my day when it is over. I try to control the controlables and not worry about the things that are out of my hands.

Europeans are unhappy to Americans because they dislike talking to them. And working 80 hours a week does not buy you happiness. I agree that we leave community behind to pursue happiness when nothing can pick you up like dinner with friends.

Surveys like these should always be taken with a chunk of salt. I lived in the Netherlands for three years, and can tell you most assuredly that there is no way the average Dutch person is happier than the average American. In fact, one of the defining characteristics of most Europeans is their grumpy and dissatisfied demeanor, especially when compared to Americans. Peoples' faces say it all.

That's one of the reasons we named our band 'Grim Smiley', was because we don't think there is any 'coincidence' that we are so unhappy as a nation and the fact that the 'pace' of the 'rat race' is at an all time high. We aren't stopping to 'smell the roses' anymore, and it's not good for our mind, body , and spirit.
Our lyrics cover some of these issues: www.grimsmiley.com

It is interesting that the pursuit of "happiness" does not make one happy. People often equate the pursuit of happiness with pursuit of education, pursuit of love, pursuit of material objects, and pursuit of power. The reason that the end game of these pursuits does not work, is that we are not living in the now, we are living in some indefinate future that will always have some new pursuit to follow after the last pursuit is fulfilled. Check out some materials by Eckart Tolle and be happy with where you are today and enjoy the process of gaining new skills.

! I think once you understand that life is just like making a sandwich. Two pieces of bread which is a beginning and an end.do not make a sandwich but its what you put in between that makes a good sandwich and makes you happy.