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.

I am unhappy with where my life is at this moment in time- I am constantly broke because bills are piled up, and I would love to be in a more permanant job and home. But, the bills get paid, and Ryan puts food on the table for me. So, I am happy in some aspects. I have much to be thankful. I will just be happy when I get a permanant job, and when Ryan gets out of school and also gets a permanant job. And a house. Until that, I am still in that akward, unhappy transitionary stage between student and adult.

i am usually pretty lethargic about life. I feel old and tired of pushing for results for the better in my life! I have been through alot more than the normal person has( i know everyone says that but i actually have). I live for my children instead of myself. I am no longer employed so there is no outlet for vacations! I am upset about not being employed! sure my bf is great but his soo to be ex wife lives with us ..... enuf said! so overall i hide my unhappiness by pretending to be happy when in reality i dont care!

As of this week I'm happy. New job, New Gal, and New goals. Just a few more kinks to work out and I'm good.

It is a peculiar western modern idea that people should always be "happy". If you were happy 24/7 then I don't think that you would appreciate it. If it was christmas every day it would get pretty lame. Anyway, I'm pretty happy. How happy can you be when you work like a dog and have screaming brats at home? I wouldn't have it any other way, but it would be silly to think that it would even be possible to be happy most of the time. I am happy when I am enjoying the free time that working hard and making money affords me. I am happy when my kids and family are sharing fun and joy. None of the happy moments would be possible however without the (figurative) shoveling the sh%t on a daily basis at work and home.

/pretty happy - no regrets

I know i am thankful for what i have and how i got here. AS for my life i am changing it. I am a very unconfident person. I have started the process to make this better. It takes time but i am doing it.

Yesterday was 50/50 i started out sad and tired. I got home and ran 2 miles. I felt EXTREMLY great cause i knew i was doing somthing to change my life.

I have everything i need but one key element is missing and i am tring to find that. That one thing is Love. One day it will arrive.

Ciao.

im not happy, my girlfriend dumped me yesterday

I'm insecure, to be honest. Can't live happy like that.

I think that if you weighed moments of happiness vs. moments of unhappiness on a day to day basis, i'd be on the happy side of things. I don't really like my job, but i like the people there, so i get through the day goofing off with them as much as is possible at work. As far as where i am at this point in my life, i'm not happy. This isn't where i want to be. But when i try to figure out where that is, i can't decide between the past that i fucked up (wanting to try to fix it and be back there) or a different path. I guess you could say that i might not be happy with life at this time, but i am a happy person (as long as i've got a good mix of zoloft and welbutrine pumping through my brain.)

I'm completely happy right now. I know that's not what you mean. But it's really nice. It's been rare since I lost my job. Thanks for helping me enjoy the experience.

im very happy right now....baseball is going great and i have a great gf....the only thing that could be better is me having my own car....other than that im really happy

My mum died on Thursday (23/10/03). She was only 55 years young.
The day before she passed on, she told me that she was happy with the way she had spent her life and had no regrets. It made me happy that she was happy, but also sad that she's now gone.

I try to make myself think i am happy...But i am not

I go through stages where i am extremely depressed. One of my friends girlfriends told me i should go see a doctor about it.

I just deal with it.

Even when i am not depressed, I am still not happy...My recent breakup of my F*ck Buddy is making me realize that i am 25 years old...All my friends are doing drugs, I do drugs. I am single, I am lonely...I just want a nice girl who likes to snuggle up in bed and talk or play fight...Just having fun together.

Having a nice steady relationship...I am missing that alot right now.

actually i am pretty miserable and single right now :/ it is really getting me down as of late :(

Yes, I'am happy at the moment. No stress at school or with my gf.

most of the time im in a happy mood i say most of the time because i dont know how i feel when im asleep

Happy

Yep, I'm happy with my life. Contentment seems to sprinkle down on me from heaven in droves. Life is only as happy as you make it, that's why it's so great.

I am not sure I agree. I still stuggle with depression from time to time, but because external circumstances are so good it doesn't last very long.

i stink... i am sad all the time... and completely overwhelmed with life.

i have an amazing wonderful husband, 2 beautiful and wonderful children, i live in a great place with loving and friendly neighbors.. we have a cat, bunny rabbits, flower gardens... i am blessed by many things... i should be happy, but can't really remember a time in my life that i ever have been really happy.

i feel stupid, inept, like a total failure... i rarely talk about it because no one wants to be around someone who is sad all of the time.

... and yes, i am seeing a doctor... i am on anti-depressants... they keep from feeling completely desperate... but the happiness still eludes me... has for most of my life actually.

*hating that i sound like such a loser in this post*

No, I'm not happy. But I should be. I tend to tell complaining people to be happy with what they have, rather than to bitch about what they can't have.
But my thing I can't have being a certain girl, who I am grown to be close friends with, makes living my own advice pretty hard.

im not happy, all i want in life is one thing, this girl that seems to be perfect for me, and me perfect for her.. she can't get over her ex who broke up with her a while ago.. but she needs to and she needs to give me a chance.. i'm probably the most patient person ever and i'm having a damn hard time waiting for her

Yeah. I'm happy. Different than you though. I'm lost and confused most of the time and I don't really know where my life is headed (college woes), but I'm happy with that and I know it'll all work out and that no matter which life I pick, it'll be mine to live.

I'm not happy as of right now. Not only am I lovesick, but the stress from school and insomnia because of it has caused me to become physically ill on a regular basis. I'm unfortunately teetering over the edge of a breakdown right now, and my upcoming schedule really isn't helping the matter. My birthday is coming up on the 11th, so I'm hoping to get out and have a good time, and hopefully meet up with the girl I've had my sights set on for a while. A night out and being able to cuddle with a girl would really help me out physically and mentally right about now.

Thankfully, yes.

But only as of recently. There was a major change in my life which sparked a revolution of self-improvement. I've been extremely satisfied with the state of things since then.

no

i'm constantly surrounded by people who probably think they're my friends but don't really know me at all. i had a birthday party that lots of people came to and i realized that very few of them were friends of mine, only one or two of which i would consider good friends.

i had a wonderful, smart, incredibly sexy girlfriend who i think knew me best out of anyone else in the world. but she broke up with me in order to hang out a lot and be friends (and only friends [really]) with one of my friends (i know thats kind of confusing. its a long story). i've been kind of crushed since then; i don't really have much self esteem or self confidence in the realm of women.

i'm not happy because i often find myself totally alone while surrounded by people that i don't really know and don't know me. i'm worried that i'm too shy and socially inept to be able to find someone to spend the rest of my days with. or at least, a few days with.

I'm mostly bitter with some moments of happiness.

I would say i was happy with my life. Thank God!