or happier than that shiny new sports car in the driveway. I had a professor in college who told the class that his top of the line stereo did not make him any happier than his first hand made radio(Crystal radio set) he had as a kid. Is happiness just a chemical by-product of endorphins being released into the bloodsteam? Is it true that the more we have the happier we are? Or, is happiness being happy with what you have, and finding inner peace?
2006-06-21 05:29:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Please stop making me think. It hurts, I think.
2006-06-21 05:32:15 · answer #1 · answered by soccersobczyk 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Happiness is not based on accumulation.
That $60K car in the drive is going to be a pile of crap in 15 years.
TV's and computers are obsolete when you carry them out of the store.
All that stuff in your house just becomes clutter.
When you find your Creator is alive and well, loves you like crazy, calls you friend, thinks of you constantly, and has a plan for your life there is a peace and pure joy that is nigh indescribable. That is happiness. Everything else is just added "stuff".
2006-06-21 12:45:02 · answer #2 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good point! I like that.
Definitely, how could anything top your first anything that you love. I may like my new motorbike more than my first, but the joy of getting on your own first bike, that can't be beat.
So, you can expand on your happiness, but it is the same happiness?
If I want to feel that again, I would have to find something new again.
I think it is different with my kids though. Everything they do is a new happiness. Maybe because they are constantly experiencing new things and new joy and that is part of my happiness.
I think this is the joy God gets from experiencing life through us. How we react to new experiences, how we feel, the joy of something new.
2006-06-21 12:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by ridethestar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the more we accumulate the more desensitised we get to the novelty of acquiring things that were once so sought after and dreamed about in our youth. Different folks, different strokes....some are happier with quality, some quantity, and some find that the material things in life bring no satisfaction and find joy in the world around them
2006-06-21 12:46:32 · answer #4 · answered by stillatello 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness is found in the soul. Spirituality makes for happiness. Toys are an accumulation of the physical/material vibration, not the spirit.
2006-06-21 12:31:42 · answer #5 · answered by jmmevolve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at it this way, think of yourself as a glass and happiness as water. When you are little you have a little glass and a little bit of happiness fills you to the brim. As you get older the glass gets bigger and it takes more, also there are holes poked in the bottom of your glass and all kinds of people keep sticking straws into the top and sucking your happiness out.
2006-06-21 12:37:58 · answer #6 · answered by QuestionWyrm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To paraphrase Robert Heinlein, the only two infinite things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
He who dies with the most toys...is still dead.
The more things you own, the more they wind up owning you.
Money is a wonderful servant but a terrible master.
2006-06-21 17:28:17 · answer #7 · answered by sandislandtim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a cliche sure, but true. "Happiness, is wanting what you have. NOT having what you want." Getting flashy toys, or status symbols is a fleeting happiness, there's always gonna be someone with more stuff.
2006-06-21 14:08:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we continually trade one thing for another hoping that next purchase makes us happy.
2006-06-21 12:33:55 · answer #9 · answered by DesignR 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it come and goes. You'll have great amazing days that will make you happy and you'll have terrible awful days that will make you sad. It's all about balancing the universe ;-)
2006-06-21 12:32:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋