Happiness is a Myth
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You can choose to be happy or choose to be miserable. Eat the damn cake.0
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Being Happy is a myth...Its an illusion to what we all are trying to attain. In everything we do in our daily lives its this deluded concept that what we are doing can somehow make us happy. We go to our jobs to slave away and earn a few dollars to buy stuff. We bite into a warm chocolate chip cookie for 5 seconds of bliss. A cigarette, a drink, a relationship, SEX. None of it is happiness its this false short lived instant... a brief moment. Its all a lie
The cake is also a lie...
NO - the cake is delicious and moist.
It's the female orgasm, that's the myth << Movie Quote! Who knows the line? >>0 -
If you believe happiness is a destination, then you will never be happy.
Happiness is a moving target...it is motion. There is no STATIC happiness.0 -
All trolls are unhappy...
untrue! im quite content
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Being Happy is a myth...Its an illusion to what we all are trying to attain. In everything we do in our daily lives its this deluded concept that what we are doing can somehow make us happy. We go to our jobs to slave away and earn a few dollars to buy stuff. We bite into a warm chocolate chip cookie for 5 seconds of bliss. A cigarette, a drink, a relationship, SEX. None of it is happiness its this false short lived instant... a brief moment. Its all a lie
I would argue that you find happiness a lie because you look for something to make you happy, rather than finding happiness in the world around you and in what you have and do.
But I would also ask why you think happiness isn't real if it's short lived? The definition of happiness has nothing to do with the duration of the emotion.0 -
Don't use a bowl to drink your rain water, that's for losers.We should all live in a box and drink rain water.
But I don't WANT rain water, I want CAKE! Now I'm *really* not happy.0 -
Happiness or joy can be found in many things, small things, big things. I'm happy this morning that Hurricane Sandy hooked around my city and we didn't get hit as badly as many others. I find joy in the fact that my husband smiles when I walk into a room and every day, tells me I'm beautiful. It made me smile on Saturday, when I was raking leaves, to see so many different colours in them, and then to have the neighbourhood toddlers all want to help me with the raking (making a bigger mess) whilst in their halloween costumes. Getting a bag of my favourite British candy in a care package from my sister makes me smile! Life is made up of good and bad, bitter and sweet.
I'm a Christian, but I'm not going to preach. Jesus said, "I come that you may have life in its fullest", not "I come so you will be happy all the time". I take that to mean, that living life fully, is experiencing both the good and the bad. The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" is one of my favourite songs.
I'm sorry that you seem to be so unhappy. .I hope that you can find joy in the little things that make life worth living.0 -
please tell me you do not work at Suicide Hotline...........0
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“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
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Well said.0
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please tell me you do not work at Suicide Hotline...........
"What seems to be your problem?"
"Well... it just feels like... my life has no meaning."
"Because it doesn't. You're just realizing this now?"
"Oh... Oh..."
"Listen, just do it. Just jump. I would too but my shift isn't done for a few hours."0 -
Dachshunds make me happy...they provide happiness.
Dachshunds are real, therefore happiness is real.
Myth Busted!0 -
I bet you're fun to hang around..
This made me laugh.. alot.
My kids, family, friends- can't look at one of em and say happiness is a myth. Might be time to find a church.0 -
You from Penn State?
*holds up a doll*
Show me where the bad man touched you.
Advice:
Stand up brush the BS in your life off.
We all go through dark times.
Life is what YOU make it!!!!!!0 -
Happiness IS NOT a myth. I had second grade with her and she was really a nice girl!!0
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Being Happy is a myth...Its an illusion to what we all are trying to attain. In everything we do in our daily lives its this deluded concept that what we are doing can somehow make us happy. We go to our jobs to slave away and earn a few dollars to buy stuff. We bite into a warm chocolate chip cookie for 5 seconds of bliss. A cigarette, a drink, a relationship, SEX. None of it is happiness its this false short lived instant... a brief moment. Its all a lie
The cake is also a lie...
NO - the cake is delicious and moist.
It's the female orgasm, that's the myth << Movie Quote! Who knows the line? >>
Jay and silent bob strike back!!! Oh! The C.L.I.T. is REAL!0 -
Don't use a bowl to drink your rain water, that's for losers.We should all live in a box and drink rain water.
But I don't WANT rain water, I want CAKE! Now I'm *really* not happy.
So, it's the *pursuit* of the rain water that matters? Ahhh... I get it now.0 -
I'm f-ing happy as hell today and every day for that matter!!! Life is what you make it, I choose to be awesome and happy:)
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.........
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You from Penn State?
*holds up a doll*
Show me where the bad man touched you.
Too soon, my friend, too soon. :laugh:0 -
Being Happy is a myth...Its an illusion to what we all are trying to attain. In everything we do in our daily lives its this deluded concept that what we are doing can somehow make us happy. We go to our jobs to slave away and earn a few dollars to buy stuff. We bite into a warm chocolate chip cookie for 5 seconds of bliss. A cigarette, a drink, a relationship, SEX. None of it is happiness its this false short lived instant... a brief moment. Its all a lie
The cake is also a lie...0 -
In the immortal words of John Lennon, "Happiness is a warm gun."
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Happiness is not a myth. It's a choice.
If you are a miserable douche, it's usually because you wanna to be.
Which will lead to choices that will make your life miserable.
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Bleh. Happiness is obtainable. Stop whining and go get it. I'm chasing some happiness right now. Just hope I don't F it up. 0
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“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
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I am (happily) living this myth then.
CHEERS!0 -
Well my hubby comes home tomorrow after 4 months away in afghanistan, i am so happy i could jump to the moon
And after 15 years of marriage, happiness is most definitely not a myth!0 -
Being Happy is a myth...Its an illusion to what we all are trying to attain. In everything we do in our daily lives its this deluded concept that what we are doing can somehow make us happy. We go to our jobs to slave away and earn a few dollars to buy stuff. We bite into a warm chocolate chip cookie for 5 seconds of bliss. A cigarette, a drink, a relationship, SEX. None of it is happiness its this false short lived instant... a brief moment. Its all a lie
Well, aren't you a bowl full of rainbows. You know the last time I decided that happiness was a mytical creature that someone probably made up I figured out I was clinically depressed. You might want to seek professional help to assist you with your brand of crazy, it usually helps me with mine.0 -
Yeah, I disagree. It's not a myth, I'm sad you feel this way at this point in time. It can be easy to feel this way if your whole world is crashing down. Nothing in life is constant, though. I believe if you want to be happy you will chase it within yourself.
For me being happy is being grateful for what I have. I honestly feel extremely lucky every morning to have woken up to another day and for everyone in my life. Grateful for my apartment, and all my belongings. My job makes me unbelievably miserable but at the end of the day I am ok, because it is not what defines me, it's merely a means to an end.
Good luck, I'm sure your feelings will change even if you don't feel they will right now.0 -
“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
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Best I've seen in a long time. Thanks!0 -
I get where the OP is coming from. While I don't believe happiness is a myth, I am fighting a constant battle with futility. Sometimes it overwhelms me, but I never let it win. It's always there though, in the back of my mind.
And to those who keep saying "your life sucks, LOL", you're the real miserable douches. Way to kick someone when they're down. LOL real funny.0
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