Are you happy?
 

I searched quite a bit, couldn't find anything related to this, and I figured I'd get more replies in the GD.

Anyway.....are you happy? All things aside, all bitching and moaning and complaining......are you happy with your life?

As for myself, I am very happy. I love life, more often than not. I don't regret anything, and I'm content with where I am headed. Despite a few bits of confusion here and there, I'm doing just fine.

So what about you? Are you happy, or could things be better?

(I'm talking overall, not just today or this week)

No, which is why I tend to drink a little too much.:D

sometimes I yam sometimes I yant.

there are some things I'd like to change but feel incapable of doing myself.

I'm not happy. I need to find someone who cares.
Where did all the trust in the world go anyway?

I am very happy with my life. I have a steady job, parents who care, and just a couple of months to go till I get my BS in Comp Sci. Its not exactly what you'd call exciting right now, but I know that its only going to get better from here.

As happy as this cat must be

http://home.clara.net/arlev/kitbits17e1.jpg

Asta!!

Happy? With my life?

Well, my life to date hasnt been very happy, but I am satisfied with it. I am happy with what I have done and look back with no regrets. In that way, I am happy. I am still alive, and better off than I started (which is really not so difficult, looking at how we start out)

Now, if we mean in this timeframe right now - overall, then if you take away temporaries, yes, I am very happy. I have the most fantastic g/f in the world, I go to school in an area that is closer to paradise than almost anywhere else on earth, I am happy.

Yes. I got love right now, I am happy for the moment (and I can benefit from the world's highest standards of living, earn money without working, and probably in the future earn a living doing what I love-writing, but whatever).

poll results for the Tilted Forums
 

As an addendum:

I searched the forum for happy and sad, just to do a little statistics:

sad: 2426 thread results
happy: 6403 thread results

so of the polling, given a total of 8829 responses, 27.5% are sad, and 72.5% are happy. As far as being happy overall with their lives, Im not sure that this is totally accurate, but people using the words in their own common speech (and the frequency) is usually a decent indication about how they feel about their lives.

(sorry for the double-post)

No but I'm working on it. i'm in college while my parents are seperated and my mom has drug issues. i worry about my brother at home and my dad(whose having heart problems).right now i don't have many friends and my roommate situation is straining. I'm also trying to apply to other colleges so the stress of trying to get the applications in and keep my grades up is a burdon.
I do have some good friends though and i'm working on getting new ones and maybe try to fit in a girlfriend in my hectic life.

An unqualified yes. Happiness stems from inner strength, not outward circumstances.

sad and tired

thats my life

...happier than ever before in my life - this includes yesterday.
extrapolating from the relevant data, I can predict with some confidence that I will be even happier tomorrow.

I'm doing okay, when you factor in how I've felt over the past 8 years or so. "Overall I would rate it a C-; okay, not great." -- Lrr, Futurama

On balance, I would say I am happy with my life. I am blessed in many ways, and there's not a lot to be unhappy about. I have enough food, a place to live, a loving husband, friends and family who care about me and about whom I care deeply. Everything else is gravy. There are a few things I would change - I'd like to find my "calling," the thing that makes me want to charge out of bed in the morning, and I wish I had/wanted less stuff - and I'm still very sad about my brother's death 6 months ago, but otherwise life is good and I don't have much to complain about.

it is pretty fifty fifty. when i am happy i am normally very happy. vice versa when not.

overall i guess happiness does win, though.

so. yeah. i'm 'happy'

I'm on my way to catching a cold hehe.. but for someone who's about to go under the weather I feel pretty good.

Absolutely. I am in great health, have a fantastic wife and daughters, and feel I'm at a very happy place in life.

same here
too much crap in my life :(
then again I'm young so hopefully I will find happiness

Generally happy with everything. Very happy with my family. Not always happy with the curves that life tends to throw us but currently we are managing to at least make ends meet, we all have decent health, a good home and 2 working cars. Could be LOTS worse. I'm content and happy.

yah, i´m pretty happy at the moment.
life isn´t perfect, but hey, its still bloody great!

Same here. In general, it depends on the level of pain that I'm in at the time.

Currently no, but I am optimistic.
It is my experience that life is sometimes punctuated with sadness to make happiness that much better. It adds a needed drama; I don't think I would want to be happy all the time.

Having said that, it’s been about 2 months of shit and it is time to switch back to happy.

I'm happy with my self and circumstances 99% of the time.

I have realized that when I am not happy, my circumstances are a direct result of my own decisions or actions/inactions. No one to blame but myself for my bad times. We are all as happy or sad as we choose to be.

I have been homeless, I have been broke, a loser, a drunk, and for all intensive purposes a skating thu life man without a thing going for me except heath, and then it happened, I hit bottom.
I am now the luckiest person I know. I have someone who loves me as me, and for me, and I the same. I have a job where I learn something new everyday. I still have my wits, common sense and a place to live that most people would envy. I lack nothing, I need no more and even when shit hit the fan, I can smile because...in the scheme of things, live has been and is very,very good to me everyday.

I'm happy that i've finally decided to change things about my life that make me not like it.

I don't have much to complain about; good family, good friends, great girlfriend. So in general, I am rather happy. There are some still days where I feel a little more depressed, but I think that's normal.

Life is what you make of it.

Not really, i need a new job.

I would have to say 'yes'. I have much to be grateful for, and when I'm given a chance to remember, I do.

Thanks for asking.

I haven't been happy in months. Not a surprise I am sure. Having your whole life crumble down with there being nothing you can do to stop it stinks.

I'm so happy right now I might be considered giddy....

Don't have a lot of cash, don't have a girl, don't have a lot of stuff, but I have lots of wine to share with friends and lots of bread to break with family.

i'm relatively happy. i go to school to feel like i've got things going for the future. i have a job to feel like i've got things going for the present.

I'm not happy, but I'm ok. I'm stuck in a rut that I'll be able to break out of soon. Once I'm able to get out of my routine, I'll be a lot happier.

over the last few months i'v felt a marked downward spiral in the happiness department. life, it seems, has grown adept at throwing curveballs, and i'm still learning how to swing my bat. because of that, i've been striking out repeatedly. i have scored a couple of hits, my girlfriend in particular, but by and large, i've been swinging wildly but haven't hit anything out of the park.

dropping silly metaphors, i've been sturggling lately with the fact that i've not been surrounded by alot of positivity, and this is finally starting to erode away at the normally very thick shell i've always used to deflect negative feelings from getting to my core. it's getting dire. i'm normally a pretty happy person, but i'm just losing myself to the negativity, and i don't like the feelings that come with it.

I 'm so happy i could just shit. Zippidy do da zippidy day. Seriously things are going great.

YUP!

jup, today I'm very happy, since in this rotten economy I just got 2 job offers from different firms and they are both good, so I even get to choose :D

Overall, I know I'm blessed since I have food on my plate every day, a roof over my head and my bills are paid, and I even get to chat on the internet.
I can go out with friends when I like to, I can enjoy movies, have all kinds of literature at my disposal either at home or in librairies, I have all the modern comforts and more...

What's not to be happy about? :)

*goes into pouncy-mode screaming yay & happy happy joy joy*

yes i'm happy and yes things could be better. :)

happy 24/7...always happy.