Things that make happiness..

[Legio Mortis]

i got this idea from 2 other threads...the 5 most beautiful sounds and the nicest things that have happened lately...i was just wondering what things might make other people happy...

companionship is one of a major importance to me...history, i love to study history....new people...those are some things that make me happy....oh yeah and eating animal cookies is to...

 

[Heliologue]

happiness is a loaded question, because understanding humans is really a lesson in duality, isn't it?

some would wax poetic, citing anything from social pleasantries to nature scenes. and, it just might be engrained upon the human psyche to require companionship: or, rather, to form a relationship, and thusly subjugate yourself to someone (martyr complex) or dominate them (monarch complex). in essence, this is what love and friendships and most everything is.

then, of course, there is the biologically-driven, hedonistic type of self-pleasure that conservatives castigate. pleasure, satiation, indulgence: all these do make us happy, despite the spewed platitudes of people who aren't.

but humans are dual minds, both associative and logical, and both sides of ourselves require 'happy' stimulation, which is why it is generally necessary to try a bit of everything.

 

[DeadWinterDead]

Well, lots of things do, but I'll only post a few.

1. Music
2. Concerts
3. Hugs
4. Kisses
5. Girls when I have good conversations with them (usually always do)
6. Ultimate Metal
7. People

 

[benny]

Buying the new Vintersorg album

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

i stopped eating fast food, but when I used to eat it....i always got really happy about half an hour after I had finished my french fries from mcdonalds, and Id lick the corners of my mouth and get a salt crystal or two. i love salt. that made me happy. goodbye

 

[Rune Fairy]

Money. Money makes me happy. Whoever said money can't buy happiness was obviously full of shit. For you see...music makes me happy, going out to a nice restoraunt makes me happy...being able to go to a cool concert makes me happy...new clothes...travelling.

Without money, none of this would be possible.

 

[Thorns of Sorrow]

Hardly anything makes me happy, alot of things such as music make me feel fulfilled, bbut other than that nothing really makes me happy. Walking through my lil forest outside my house, makes me feel at peace...prolly goin to shows with my bandmates or sumthin, makes me happy *shrugs*

 

[Fjelltussa]

Originally posted by Rune Fairy
Money. Money makes me happy. Whoever said money can't buy happiness was obviously full of shit. For you see...music makes me happy, going out to a nice restoraunt makes me happy...being able to go to a cool concert makes me happy...new clothes...travelling.

Without money, none of this would be possible.

Well said.

But then it's not the money in tyemselves, but what the money can buy. But those things have to be combined with things you cannot buy. One needs both, I think.

 

[Legio Mortis]

Originally posted by Fjelltussa


Well said.

But then it's not the money in tyemselves, but what the money can buy. But those things have to be combined with things you cannot buy. One needs both, I think.

I agree Fjell...i think its a combination of both.....

 

[IcemanJ256]

Originally posted by Rune Fairy
Money. Money makes me happy. Whoever said money can't buy happiness was obviously full of shit. For you see...music makes me happy, going out to a nice restoraunt makes me happy...being able to go to a cool concert makes me happy...new clothes...travelling.

Without money, none of this would be possible.

BUT the money itself doesnt make you happy. looking at washington's ugly face and that dirty crinkly green paper. what if you had money but couldnt spend it? then it wouldnt make you happy.



This doesn't have a point at all, i'm just bored.

 

[Thorns of Sorrow]

shes canadian, she gets the pretty Queens face! heheh and their money isnt green! lol Canadian money makes me happy too! It looks like monopoly money, and monopoly ownz!

 

[ShadowCrow]

Money. Money makes me happy. Whoever said money can't buy happiness was obviously full of shit.

I am so totally w/ you on that one Rune Fairy. Money is happiness. But if money is happiness let's assume that knowledge = power...
Then true happiness to me is to rich and full of knowledge.

Knowledge is power, power corrupts, therefore: Study hard, be evil...

Personally, I think that happiness totally varies with the subject that has to face it. To some, playing football in foreign countries is happiness, and to win games of other worthless sports.
For some playing and making music is funny (I can agree on that), and to some, having a big garden full of pretty flowers and yada is happiness. As you understand, the combinations is endless...

To me, happiness is:
Living a life that I am totally satisfied with (wich I do more or less), to be surrounded by beautiful and intelligent people (preferly gothrock/blackmetal females) talking alot about philosophical stuff and when we get tired of that we screw eachothers brains straight to hell in sick master-slave games.
Sex, woman and music is what makes me happy. And money, for with that, I can attain the 3 stuff that makes me happy to begin with.

How others live their lifes does not interest me.
Like we say in swedish "Variation förnöjjer"...

 

[Legio Mortis]

Originally posted by ShadowCrow


Knowledge is power, power corrupts, therefore: Study hard, be evil...

haha...funny shit....but mankind as a whole is corrupted...even without money we try to fuck each other over all the time....so i think you do not really have to add in knowledge or money to be corrupted

 

[niniel]

Well, what makes me happy is music, fantasy(D&D, epic animes, books), cats and love. But what would make me more happy is stability in many simple things I don't have like most people do...

 

[Eirik]

Music... music... to be in that moment that somehow touches your soul... that speaks to you in a language that isn't fathomable but that you still comprehend.. I could die in that moment... It's my soulmate... my lover... my only true joy...

and it's mine

 

[Fjelltussa]

My Love makes me happy!!

 

[niniel]

I just thought about it, but Mr V's music and some of the things he said are most inspiring...not that I would copy him though....
I think his music is one of the greatest source of joy in my life, but, isn't music everything that makes life worth living?

Mr V, you've earned my respect and admiration in many ways!

 

[manuelgv]

playing dungeons and dragons makes me very happy
also walking down the school hall and meeting up with a philosophy girl I have a crush for,and talking to her makes me happy as well

 

[Obyeybyeogone]

Listening to music can most usually make me happy, but I have to be already kind of happy for this.

Being happy is something I hold very important, because if you're not happy, you might as well be dead, 0 is better than -3.

Anyways, lots of stuff besides music makes me happy. MAKING music makes me very happy, especially when it's just a jam that turns into a really nice song, rather than a carefully thought out and constructed song, I just enjoy when I start playing, then other people do. And it's like "Hey start playing the harmonica along to this" etc. etc. and it just is on and works, so nice.

This is kind of dumb, but smoking pot with friends makes me really happy, it's just fun to lose your mind and act like an idiot with people every once in a while.

Lately what's made me most happy is talking to someone I really care for online, although it makes me sad that I can only talk to her online. Overall from that though, more happy than anything.

Drawing makes me happy as well, when I think of something cool to draw, I love to just clear my desk and start drawing it, not stopping until I finish, then when I finally do finish it's tempting to just keep adding more and more details because I don't want to stop drawing it

I also enjoy seeing other people being happy or enjoying themselves. Two girls in my mathclass would always joke to each other with these inside jokes and just crack up hysterically, I couldn't help but feel happy from them feeling happy all the time.

UM makes me really happy (obviously), there's nothing like a place where you actually like more people than you dislike (as opposed to the real world). People here are for the most part very open-minded, intelligent, friendly, sweet, and caring. I couldn't ask for better people to talk to and joke around with.

Money really doesn't make me happy, I would rather just be around people I love than be loaded with money. I'm sure it would be fun to travel and buy a bunch of CD's and nice amps etc. etc. I would probably enjoy myself, but I don't think i'd actually be happy from money. Happiness doesn't come from material crap, not the happiness I want at least.

I'll add more later, I know this is probably long enough that half of the people will skip reading it (I'm guilty of this quite often)

 

[Obyeybyeogone]

This is such a great thread!

Music... music... to be in that moment that somehow touches your soul... that speaks to you in a language that isn't fathomable but that you still comprehend.. I could die in that moment... It's my soulmate... my lover... my only true joy...

Damn I know what you mean. I don't do this enough, but when I just get the hell off the computer, light a candle, and sit down with a CD. Sometimes it can drive you to a feeling you've never felt before, and often it just makes me cry. I like to do this with my dying bride, just let the music make me cry, it's beautiful.

Also onetime I remember, listening to one of maudlin of the well's tracks where it's essentially just noise, somehow it made my brain go crazy (for lack of a better explanation) and for like 45 minutes after my brain did that, I felt strange in a great way