Is anyone TRULY happy? How do you avoid being perpetually dissatisfied with the way life is going?

Answer 1

If you try not to compare yourself with others, then you will fins the goodness in yourself. When you evaluate your life, do not evaluate it by the means of material things. When you refelct on your life... do just that. Reflect on YOUR life, not your life compared with the CEO next door who has 2 yachts, perfect children, and a beach house in Cabo. If you also do charity work for those who are less fortunate, you will feel better about yourself and your life.

To aviod being dissasified, again, do not compare!

And, by the way, I'm sure you have a wonderful life with many things to be happy for. As long as you have food in your cupboard, a roof over your head and clothes on your back, you're doing better than most of the world.

Did you know that if you have spare change some where (ie: cup, drawer, car change thingy holder, beside.... etc etc) then you are in the top 10% of the worlds wealthiest people!??!!?

Yea.. thats what I thought.

Answer 2

I am truly happy. And we all can be too. I have found that when trying to avoid being dissatisfied, you can't allow yourself to be dissatisfied. Everything happens for a reason. Trying to understanding the reason why it happened is what makes you become dissatisfied. And if your not satisfied, make it so you are. The only things that matter is how you feel right now, this second. If your happy right now, then your happy, if you were sad in a point of time that had already happen, don't think about it, it has already happen you can't do anything about it. Just know that you are happy right this second. You can be satisfied with anything, you just have to know why you are satisfied with it.

Answer 3

The best example I know of a happy person you might also know is the apostle Paul of the Bible. He said he had learned to be content in all situations, and golly did he have some situations. He was shipwrecked, bitten by a poisonous viper snake, put in prison, stoned and left for dead, and rejected. But nothing separated him from the love of God and the purpose God had given him for his life. I think a quest to know God better and better and to understand more and more what His plans are give us the key to avoid being perpetually dissatisfied with the way life is going. "In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you"!

And remember King Solomon who said everything is meaningless? He also discovered how to be happy. Info on what he found out at http://members.aol.com/sftrail/christ/comment/solomon.html#9-2

Answer 4

I am truly happy in life, but I'm not sure how to explain how I got there. I suppose you could say I took a "leap" (not necessarily in faith, although i do believe in God) in life and have come to this inner peacefulness and happiness. I think that a series of events in my life (both good and bad) have lead me up to being truly happy. This is not to say that i do not have bad days or depressing times in my life; however, I have come to understand that life just works out that way. I treasure the beautiful moments that happen in life, and have come to understand not what life means, but rather what life is. To answer your question about how to avoid being dissatisfied and find true happiness, in my opinion, would be to try to look at your life in a different view. Read books, educate yourself (although education is not everything), and try to open up your mind. Try to emotionally connect with others (and i do not necessarily mean loving a better-half or spouse). You will find, I believe, that you can open your mind in ways you never thought possible and connect with life. You may think that I'm crazy, or that I do not really know true happiness, but I can tell you one thing---You will know when your truly happy, and you cannot explain in words how to get there. It takes thought and time.

True happiness is not about finding a romantic love, it is not about God, and it is not about the small things in life(like finding what you like to occupy your time with). True happiness is about YOU, and comes from within.

Answer 5

If you are dissatisfied with the way your life is going you change things. It is not complicated. I am truly happy most of the time because I choose to be instead of whinning . Some people just like feeling sorry for themselves and blaming others for their unhappiness.

Answer 6

I'd say to find your own extacy. I mean it in a way in which you can get away and do something your happy doing. Only you know what makes you happy, maybe sports or reading, I don't know but you do. If I need to get away, I like to go to a park and seclude myslef as I listen to music from my Ipod. If your life is not in your favor right now, DON'T WORRY!! When your up in life, it never seems good enough, but when you're down, you feel like you can't get back up. Just know that it's a rollercoaster ride and you're on the downside, but the only way to go from there is up.

Answer 7

I am! Sure, my life isn't perfect, but I have long since learned to enjoy and be thankful for what I do have. When I have my worst days, I'll find anything good about my life/day to hold onto, and you'd be surprised about how focusing on the little successes in your life can give you the confidence to get through the big problems.

Answer 8

Stop planning or expecting the outcome of things which you have no control over.

You are expecting certain results, but things aren't happening the way you had planned, so you're dissatisfied....let-down.

Expectations are actually pre-meditated resentments.

Answer 9

to avoid being dissatisfied with the way life is going is to serch out and find things you injoy,its important to find a ballance in all things an old saying,"he who expects nothing shall not be dissapointed"

Answer 10

Truly, no, I'm not. There's always more things I want to obtain or achieve. The best way I think, though, is by not expecting/wanting anything. If you don't expect or want anything, then you're happy with where you are and what happens.