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When I read the OP I thought about something completely different from all y'all. I thought about the local diner and the liar's table. You know, the table where all the old guys gather around over breakfast to complain about politics, the president, whatever whomever is doing wrong in town, etc. I call it the daily depression session. I mean sure, sometimes these things need to be discussed - you shouldn't stick your head in the sand. But every day? For hours a day? No wonder some people say the day is dragging out so long. They started out depressed.
I've started just getting my breakfast to go and eating it in the car. It tastes a lot better that way for some reason... >.>
I've started just getting my breakfast to go and eating it in the car. It tastes a lot better that way for some reason... >.>
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A typical fleeting kind of happiness is brought about or negated by things external. When it's a dynamic emotion like that, it's neither attractive nor repellent (in moderation).
But a healthy joy in the Lord? That's hot. It's the kind of joy that's consistent, that isn't so easily beaten out of a person through affliction, and is static by contrast to "happiness," that's attractive.
But a healthy joy in the Lord? That's hot. It's the kind of joy that's consistent, that isn't so easily beaten out of a person through affliction, and is static by contrast to "happiness," that's attractive.
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Of all people to be asking about happiness. Wow! Mitspa. Hope things are well with you.
There are TOO MANY angry, mad, stiffs, hostile, unhappy people.
I say Hi to people. I smile. I love happiness.
Too many unreformed Scrooges all about.
I'm getting unhappy just thinking about all the naysayers.
Happy is best.
Mitspa, you are encouraging.
There are TOO MANY angry, mad, stiffs, hostile, unhappy people.
I say Hi to people. I smile. I love happiness.
Too many unreformed Scrooges all about.
I'm getting unhappy just thinking about all the naysayers.
Happy is best.
Mitspa, you are encouraging.
I am in agreement with those who spoke of those individuals who are filled with the Holy Spirit and their happiness is genuine. I have to admit that too often those "over the top cheerleader/bouncing off the wall happy" folks seem to fall into the situational happy people who have a fakeness quality to it. They want to be known as happy but the minute someone cuts them off in traffic the true temperament comes out and not just for a moment.
It it reminds me of that saying which I might butcher so someone can correct me but.."a persons true character is observed during moments of crisis or strife and not in moments of calm."
I agree that folks who are genuinely happy and filled with Christs love have a beauty and appeal you can't measure.
It it reminds me of that saying which I might butcher so someone can correct me but.."a persons true character is observed during moments of crisis or strife and not in moments of calm."
I agree that folks who are genuinely happy and filled with Christs love have a beauty and appeal you can't measure.
It's not black and white. I prefer a moderately unsatisfied, rationally cynical ten with acerbic wit and a hard outer shell, to a brain-dead five who deludes herself into thinking the entire world's made of candy-floss and sparkly goo-goo.
Nothing annoys me more than the kind of "happiness" that in order to exist requires a professional degree in lying to yourself.
Nothing annoys me more than the kind of "happiness" that in order to exist requires a professional degree in lying to yourself.
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I think everyone has a social mask. Those with the thickest masks are usually the unhappies people. IN my experience, those who seem outwardly unimpressed or "unhappy", are those who are most willing to be true to their inner voice and to who they are, despite the social pressures put upon them.
Some of the happiest people I know are cynical, antisocial (in the political sense) and biting. And some of the unhappiest toe the social line like the outside world is Guantanamo, and they're an Iraqi nuclear physicist.
Some of the happiest people I know are cynical, antisocial (in the political sense) and biting. And some of the unhappiest toe the social line like the outside world is Guantanamo, and they're an Iraqi nuclear physicist.