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How the did you answer so quickly? That took like 8 seconds...
Happy more often than not
Unhappy more often than not
About 50-50
I don't think about it
*Trolls - this is the Club, not the Troll Zone, so please respect my request not to turn this thread into a flame war*
This seems like a flippant thread, but it's actually a serious question. Of course, the definitions of "happy" and "unhappy" are specific to each individual, but overall would you say that you are "happy" significantly more of the time than you are "unhappy", is it about 50-50, or don't you think about it? (note that poll votes are NOT public)
I ask because I've recently realised that I've been unhappy for a long time, well over a year, that this unhappiness spills over into my interaction with others (like some of the stupid rants I go on around here), and that it can't continue or I'm going to go crazy. I need to find something to make me happy again, but right now I'm struggling.
An adjunct to the question above is do you think that some people are just happy/unhappy by nature, or is it a choice? If it is a choice, how can you change your perspective to be a happier?
Finally, I'd like to apologise to anyone around here (except elwanko) that I have annoyed, insulted or in any other sense been inappropriate to. That is not me. Right now, I am not me.
How the did you answer so quickly? That took like 8 seconds...
Sounds like something Spurs season tickets can fix ....
I voted 50-50.
oh this is gonna be good
yeah, that might just be the solution. How I'm going to get a job over there I don't know, but maybe a year in SA going to every game they play might change things...Sounds like something Spurs season tickets can fix ....
I'm really quite torn. I'm at a crossroads in my life. I have no career to speak of but plenty of quals and various work experience... I have no significant other and none even on the horizon... I want to come to SA, but at the same time I love my lifestyle here and really want to build something rather than just running off to somewhere new as I have done every 2-4 years since I was 18...
You mean the thread will generate some interesting answers, or people like you and elwanko are just gonna enjoy flaming me mercilessly? If it's that latter, can you just give me a break this once, please? Destroy me elsewhere, but just leave me this... I know the people around here will have a lot to say about this topic.
elpimpo, do you still have Seasonal Affective Disorder? I can just imagine the businessman who came up with that disease. "Hmmm ... I need a catchy name for a new illness so I can sell pills to sad people .... SAD! Brilliant!" CROFL.
Anyways, yeah, Ruff you should have put an option that was even higher than that that main option. "Happy more often than not" is kinda shortchanging people who are almost always happy.
Oh and yeah elpimpo take your SAD county commissioner azz to another thread. Go start a thread where you don't allow Ruff to enter.
SAD...ROFL, I dont remember that ever beign discussed on here but yeah... that's the excuse pimpo uses for when he is sad
I'm gonna say no, and with it, invite a -ton of gay jokes at my expense.
Does it look like I'm happy ?
why do you have to be such a puss about it ? pimpo and I could not touch this thread again and you'd still get your chode bloated because you're too sensitive.
i'll just watch
i voted more than happy because, being sad sucks and their is no point in being sad
I'm FIVE-OH - FIVE-OH lol
Hopefully you are talking in past tense because your uncle got over SAD. If not, RIP.
Yeah, I would have replied faster but I was watching the video. At a Bone concert, everyone just waits for Crossroads to be played. I've seen their Crossroad performance three times and it's pretty funny ... they trot out some white horses and bust out a smoke machine ... no matter the venue. Kinda lame because they've probably performed that song like 10,000 times in the last 12 years but still kinda cool.
Personally, I think I'm happy nearly all the time (obviously some events might make me sad temporarily).
But I think that everyone goes through some time in their life that is just unhappy/out of whack for whatever reason. I don't think it means you have any clinical depression problems or anything, it might just mean you haven't found your way. I don't mean your religious way necessarily. I just mean your way to happiness.
I don't think people are unhappy by nature or by choice exactly. (Though I do think behavior can cause you to get a rut.) Sometimes, you are just unhappy by cir stance ... can't seem to get out of a bad job, cycling through bad relationships, etc. And I think to change that, some people need a change of job, environment, habits, etc. A good way to change habits is to force yourself into new hobbies or new surroundings. Read books that your normally wouldn't read, experience new hobbies, spend time in places and with people outside your normal circle, etc. Maybe you just haven't figured out your passions yet.
Anyway, I'm no psychiatrist. I didn't get married until I was 35 and went thru tons of bad relationships, unhappiness, abusive behavior before that. But eventually I found my way.
Tough question to answer. Today was definitely what I would call an unhappy day at work, but I was much happier when I got home to my kitties and watched Anthony Bourdain. I guess it's easier for me to pinpoint the things that make me happy and unhappy than it is for me to guage the percentage of time for either.
As for season tickets making you happy, I can say for certain that going to games definitely distracts me and can make crappy days better. I'm broke, (thanks for raising the ticket prices, you heads) but happy to be going.
I had to pay some serious tolls to get here, and it took an awfully long time, but it's rare now when I'm not happy.
Thanks Kori and Spurschick, great posts. Those are the sorts of perspectives I was hoping for. I have to go now but will say more in response later.
Shagia - want to elaborate? I completely understand if you don't.
lefty - I dunno... the stormtrooper looks pretty happy though! Or are those thrusts of loneliness?
E20 - being a teenager is tough, an emotional rollercoaster. I was about 50-50 back then too.
pego - who gives you the right to define what is too sensitive? Yes, I am a sensitive person. I care about things too much sometimes, I worry about things too much a lot of the time, I wear my heart on my sleeve, but that is who I am and always will be.
I was asking you for a simple courtesy, not "being a puss" about anything. Can you not see the difference? This is a sensitive topic and people are more likely to give insightful responses if the thread doesn't turn into a big rip-fest. Is that unreasonable?
That's great!
I had to pay some serious tolls to get here, and it took an awfully long time, but it's rare now when I'm not happy.
How did you do it? Change of mindset? Change of cir stances?
timvp - I figured if people were almost entirely happy/unhappy, they could mention it in the thread. You can't edit a poll, can you? It would probably be better if "almost always happy" and "almost always unhappy" were options.
Thanks Kori and Spurschick, great posts. Those are the sorts of perspectives I was hoping for. I have to go now but will say more in response later.
Shagia - want to elaborate? I completely understand if you don't.
lefty - I dunno... the stormtrooper looks pretty happy though! Or are those thrusts of loneliness?
E20 - being a teenager is tough, an emotional rollercoaster. I was about 50-50 back then too.
pego - who gives you the right to define what is too sensitive? Yes, I am a sensitive person. I care about things too much sometimes, I worry about things too much a lot of the time, I wear my heart on my sleeve, but that is who I am and always will be.
I was asking you for a simple courtesy, not "being a puss" about anything. Can you not see the difference? This is a sensitive topic and people are more likely to give insighful responses if the thread doesn't turn into a big rip-fest. Is that unreasonable?The gay joke part of my post was just from the fact that it seems like I get a lot of about being bi, be it, you know, random middle school smack, be it "you're not really bi until you another guy", or be it "There's no such thing as bisexuality." None of it, really actually bothers me, it's just tiresome as . As to why I voted no, I'm an extremely cynical and pessimistic person, especially for my age (19). I mean, I largely gave up on my generation when I was a freshman in high school. And a lot of that stems from my cir stances. I'd just moved back to the suburbs of Chicago, from San Antonio, and I *loved* it down in SA. So much so that the move back up to a place where I'd known little more than taunts and ridicule from....about 1st grade to 6th grade. So, it kinda screwed me up a bit, turned me cynical at 13. Been that way since. Rawrgh.
I just got brain freeze from eating too much ice. That does not make me happy.
Go suck a lemon, hippie.
I will never ever say I am sad, just less happy.
The disabled, disfigured, poor beyond belief (I'm talking about people in Africa and parts of South America etc.), those are people who I feel sad for and have the right to feel sad.
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