What is the secret to being truly happy?

Yazackie90 · **Posted:** April 5th, 2008, 6:48 pm

Tidus wrote:

Yazackie90 wrote:

Emo alert.

How can "Lack of Emotion" be emo?

If you have "lack of emotion", you are either depressed, or don't care about anything. Depression is emo, and if you don't care about anything, then your emo as well.

Adbot · **Posted:** April 5th, 2008, 6:48 pm

Vampirelo609 · **Posted:** April 5th, 2008, 8:08 pm

Well in all honesty, I don't think there is a secret to happiness. I also don't think true happiness is ever attainable.

The dictionary defines happiness as a state of well-being and contentment.

While each person can feel and has the ability to feel happiness, one can not always avoid negative situations which will take them out of that state of contentment. In order to obtain true happiness, all negative situations must be avoided, which is clearly impossible.

I feel oddly philosophical today.....

Gontcha · **Posted:** April 5th, 2008, 8:20 pm

Accepting the fact that your life will be a sinusoïd, you will get even amounts of happy times and bad times.
That's my philosophy.

murdererdood · **Posted:** April 6th, 2008, 4:10 pm

Yazackie90 wrote:

Tidus wrote:

Yazackie90 wrote:

Emo alert.

How can "Lack of Emotion" be emo?

If you have "lack of emotion", you are either depressed, or don't care about anything. Depression is emo, and if you don't care about anything, then your emo as well.

If you don't really care about anything, you're not going to get let down at any point.
If you do care about things, at some point in your life you will get shot down and will be sad and whatnot, ruining your chances of being "truly happy". It's a contradiction, by the way. It's impossible to be perfectly happy. Apathy wont make you happy, but it'll make sure you're always constant.

Incidentally, sinusoids are found in the liver, lymphoid tissue, endocrine organs, and haematopoietic organs such as the bone marrow and the spleen. I am confused.

Ranging God · **Posted:** April 6th, 2008, 4:27 pm

Having a great relationship with a girl.
Simple

Yazackie90 · **Posted:** April 6th, 2008, 5:24 pm

Ranging God wrote:

Having a great relationship with a girl.
Simple

Are you being sarcastic? It yes, does make you happy, but no way its the secret to being truly happy. You will still have negative things in your life, thus eliminating true happiness.

Adbot · **Posted:** April 6th, 2008, 5:24 pm

Alex · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 5:14 am

Yazackie90 wrote:

Ranging God wrote:

Having a great relationship with a girl.
Simple

Are you being sarcastic? It yes, does make you happy, but no way its the secret to being truly happy. You will still have negative things in your life, thus eliminating true happiness.

Yeah but having a "Great Relationship" with someone you truly care about who feels the exact same back can make all the negative things disappear.

They'll still be there but it won't matter to you. You'd get the feeling that the only thing you need in the world is that person.

Anubis · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 7:13 am

Happiness is what a person feels once they feel they've achieved everything they desire and own everything they want and need. It's probably better to describe happiness as the pinnacle of greed. ^_^

Yazackie90 · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 1:06 pm

Alex wrote:

Yazackie90 wrote:

Ranging God wrote:

Having a great relationship with a girl.
Simple

Are you being sarcastic? It yes, does make you happy, but no way its the secret to being truly happy. You will still have negative things in your life, thus eliminating true happiness.

Yeah but having a "Great Relationship" with someone you truly care about who feels the exact same back can make all the negative things disappear.

They'll still be there but it won't matter to you. You'd get the feeling that the only thing you need in the world is that person.

But that still won't be true happiness. I win again. $\:D/$

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 1:28 pm

Yazackie90 wrote:

But that still won't be true happiness. I win again. $\:D/$

There really is no such thing as absolute truth, so I asked this question as more of a way to see what each person thought rather than reaching a consensus.

Vampirelo609 · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 1:53 pm

Mushroom Queen wrote:

There really is no such thing as absolute truth, so I asked this question as more of a way to see what each person thought rather than reaching a consensus.

Hmmm, tricky Mushroom Queen. Each person's perception on happiness is different so that would make it impossible to have a secret for happiness since there is no set standard.

Very, very clever.....

Yazackie90 · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 2:09 pm

Mushroom Queen wrote:

Yazackie90 wrote:

But that still won't be true happiness. I win again. $\:D/$

There really is no such thing as absolute truth, so I asked this question as more of a way to see what each person thought rather than reaching a consensus.

But I still win, right? You should make more topics like this. Sorta believer topics. 8-[

Vampirelo609 · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 2:25 pm

Yazackie90 wrote:

Mushroom Queen wrote:

Yazackie90 wrote:

But that still won't be true happiness. I win again. $\:D/$

There really is no such thing as absolute truth, so I asked this question as more of a way to see what each person thought rather than reaching a consensus.

But I still win, right? You should make more topics like this. Sorta believer topics. 8-[

Well, I'm not sure if it is possible to win at something with no answer. MQ will have to say if you won or not. After all, it is her thread.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 6:49 pm

There really is no winner, just wanting to see how people see ultimate happiness. I think it's interesting to see people saying that accomplishing things in life leads to true happiness. On a small scale, whenever I accomplish something big (getting into uni)..I feel, well, the same as I did before.

Vampirelo609 · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 7:07 pm

Yeah, its one of the types of questions I usually have a deeper AIM/MSN chat with my friends.... which is not often since most of my friends are complete idiots. I congratulate you for actually making me think. *Gives MQ a giant cookie*