Happiness is a Myth

Happiness is not a myth. It's a choice.

If you are a miserable douche, it's usually because you wann to be.
Which will lead to choices that will make your life miserable.

Definitely, Happiness is a choice. Not an easy choice, but a choice nonetheless.
And I choose to be happy.

Happiness is a choice.

Even when nearly everything points to being miserable, it is a strong person who CHOOSES to be happy, smile, laugh, and enjoy what little they have.

Tell yourself it's a Wonderful day, then start listing the reasons why. Start with this one: "I'm alive." Then, "I have the ability to see, hear, taste, smell, and *feel*." Continue this pattern.

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 became happy the day I decided to be happy with what I had and not worry about the stuff I didn't have. Stuff / jobs / people / things / food does not make a person happy. A person makes a person happy.

Oh except for the beer thing, beer makes me happy. Except for the next day when it turns up with a mallet and caves my head in but I forgive it as we had such fun the night before :laugh: :drinker: :glasses:

If you choose to believe that ...............your life sucks lol

I choose to be happy even with the bumps in the road !!! Sometimes it's the bumps that make you a better person

Agreed!

Were you trying to depress me? Because I think you managed it.

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hahaha. That was a good laugh. I'm sorry to hear your outlook on life is so sad and pathetic. I'd have to say that I'm one of the happiest people I know. I love my job, and I don't need any money, or cake, or beer, or sex to make me happy! I'm happy 24/7. If you fell you need things and events to make you happy, you're doing it wrong.

You're just a victim to modern's society's need for materialistic things. Sucks to be you.

Unfortunately my view of happiness is kind of like yours...for me, I feel like happiness is a transient state that occurs now and then and that can just as easily be ripped from my grasp at any moment. I feel like I am always bracing myself for the next sh*tty thing that will happen in my life. But while you can't choose what happens to you, you can choose to alter how you think about it.

It's just that "thinking positive" is a hell of a lot easier for some folks than it is for others. Which doesn't make unhappy people miserable douches as some rude comments on here imply. Maybe the OP is seriously depressed....or maybe they're just trolling. Who really knows. Being happy is not easy for some people, but it's still worth the effort.

"Happiness is given way too much importance these days. Why not go for greatness?


Chimps are happy. I will not settle for that."

To counter your argument: Greatness lasts for eternity. Why not stop trying to be happy, and aim for greatness. Happiness is just a by-product of that.

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

You need moar....

WIN!!!