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Is anyone here genuinely happy?
| Kinda
I enjoy doing my work, but dealing with some people is sad and exhausting.
| Nah. I used to be happy when I had a gf and a job but nowadays I feel like I can barely keep my life together.
| Well I am surely not.
Currently getting treatment because of depression.
Swallowing pills too
| not happy
also kinda wish i was a girl??
| I doubt that feeling like shit all the time counts as being happy. So no, I'm not.
| I am! My obvious advantages are having a job I like, good physical and mental health, and a stable home situation, which unfortunately aren't easily achievable for everyone.
My more attainable tips are:
* If you have the financial security for it, set up a regular donation to a top charity recommended by GiveWell. That way, you can reassure yourself that you're doing a measurable amount of good just by showing up to work. In about a year I'll have saved a statistical life!
| * Exercise more. The best approach I've found for this is to start with the laziest bare minimum, like walking around a park in your running gear, and keeping it up for a couple of weeks to build the habit of exercise. Once it's part of your day, then you can start stepping up the intensity.
* Try to maintain a sense for the insignificance of hassles and worries. Getting stuck in traffic for an hour sucks, but that's only like $10 worth of your time depending on your job
| * Similarly, pay attention to how things make you feel, and respond accordingly. Getting into random internet arguments made me annoyed, so I stopped. I really enjoy my food, so I try and take the time to appreciate the flavours properly instead of just inhaling it even when I'm hungry
* It's kind of cliche for advice, but mindfulness is worth a try. There are apps that help to learn it, for me the best part was learning to acknowledge and dismiss intrusive thoughts reflexively
| Im sure some people are, though I'm not
| Sometimes I feel truly happy, but I think that it's one of those things that is designed in our genetics to come and go. For some more than others.
| When im not working yes
| I am okay, because i have internet.
| Everything is short lived, happiness only exist in short bursts.
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Everything only exists in short bursts. Everything is short lived after all. Even unhappiness.
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I disagree. Unhappiness tends to stretch far longer than happiness does. There's a reason you tend to hear about "hitting a rough patch" so often, and I don't think there's an equivalent saying for happiness.
Of course, everything is relative, though, and none of it matters for the Universe in the grand scheme of things.
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| Because I think I may be now. There's finally something I can look forward to and I enjoy working towards it. Is this all it takes to be happy? Am I actually happy?