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08-05-2009, 09:32 PM | #16 |
I can hear my ears
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08-06-2009, 12:44 PM | #17 |
dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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08-06-2009, 12:53 PM | #18 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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That's cute, dar.
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08-06-2009, 01:17 PM | #19 |
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My solution to finding happiness was to walk away from "traditional life." By this, I mean the usual: living in a city, commuting to/from work with a million other sad lemmings, doing a job that you don't really care that much about (or actively HATE) for 40 hours a week so you can have two days off to do pretty much nothing of interest or value, before you have to get up again on Monday morning and repeat the drudgery for yet another week.
Sure, I had a gorgeous condo and made $42,000/year, but was I really happy? Not for a second. So I chucked it all. Moved to the country, planted a garden (or four). Created a HOME - a forever place. Found a pet-sitting job (great work, but quite sporadic), got some writing gigs, took on other part-time jobs as needed/available. Scrambling most of the time for work (the ultra-sucky economy isn't helping at all), but somehow managing to keep afloat. Today, I haven't a spare nickle to my name, but I've discovered that nothing makes me happier than having a spastic chicken follow me around the yard as I tend my garden. Seriously. Sometimes, I just sit on the porch swing and drink it all in, astounded that such simple things can be so rewarding. Life is GOOOOD. |
08-06-2009, 02:05 PM | #20 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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How I be happy:
I try try try to remember, when I am decidedly unhappy, that I will be happy again. Sometimes that's the hardest part. But right now I'm pretty damn happy so what do I know.
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08-06-2009, 02:34 PM | #21 | |
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I have done very much the same. All 'cept the spastic chicken
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08-06-2009, 11:45 PM | #22 |
barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
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Focus, recenter, realize what is truly important is the many things you take for granted everyday. PAY ATTENTION because tone never knows when it will all be ripped from you and the "plan" you had will radically change in ways you couldn't possibly imagine.
What makes you happy is the compilation of the things that on the surface may appear mundane or unimportant ... yet they are the most important. Drink it all up for your cup may soon be filled with a bitter reality you never thought possible. The things that make me happy today would not have even registered on my "happiness scale" a few short months ago.
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08-07-2009, 02:25 AM | #23 | |
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I appreciate you posting the article, Cloud.
But I'm in the same mood as Bri when it comes to reading the self-satisfied journalistic smug-bombs. We say it better in the Cellar, without anyone having to pay a dime Quote:
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08-07-2009, 08:29 AM | #24 | ||
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Exactly...a general feeling of ennui and disguised disgust with yourself for being bitchy because everything on earth isn't going your way does not qualify for unhappiness. Not the kind of unhappiness that people suffering from depression go through. It all just seems a bit shallow to me.
I do agree that at times you can talk yourself through low moments: but when the demon depression sets in, there's no talking to yourself about anything. Quote:
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08-07-2009, 10:20 AM | #25 |
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Thanks, Shawnee and Sundae, for getting my meaning. I feel Pie was offended but I meant exactly what you two just said. Li'l Miss Bus did NOT mention crippling depression or suicidal thoughts. that would have changed the game, obviously. No outward measure of 'happiness' can touch you when you are depressed. Different animal than the Bored Rich Girl Having It All syndrome.
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08-07-2009, 10:39 AM | #26 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
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This is not a list of 'ways to cope with depression'. It's not aimed at depressives hoping for a cure. It's a general list of ways to be happy, aimed at people who, for whatever reason, just aren't.
If she'd marketed this as a sure fire way to cure depression I'd agree with every word you guys have said. But she isn't. At what point did this woman deserve the judgement of being a Bored Rich Girl Having it All ?
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08-07-2009, 10:42 AM | #27 |
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Just by being made by a cookie-cutter which has mass-produced millions others just like her. I'm sticking with "wahhhh."
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08-07-2009, 10:45 AM | #28 | ||
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Some of that list I would agree with. Some of it I have come to myself over the years. Faking it til you feel it can help. I find it can anyway. Not when I am in the throws of depression no...but then depression and unhappiness aren't the same thing, and, as I already said, this is a list of ways to try and be happier, not to get through depression.
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08-07-2009, 10:49 AM | #29 | |
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Ok, then, this:
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08-07-2009, 10:53 AM | #30 | ||
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I have sat around whining that my life wasn't quite perfect enough. Many times. Of course, I wasn't 'whining' as far as I was concerned. I was just very unhappy. Or are you suggesting that because she has what 'should' make her happy, then she has no right to be unhappy? Besides, her start point wasn't that she was unhappy, but that she wasn't 'happy'. There's a difference. Why shouldn't she try and be happier than she is? Why shouldn't anyone try to be happier than they are?
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