Do you ever feel like you've forgotten how to be happy in life?

Question

Have you attempted any changes & have they worked?

Answer 1

Yeah. Find something you want, and set your life to accomplish it. Achieving goals and understanding that life is about the experiences will keep you happy.

Answer 2

After having been very close to death with my body broken and hospitalized for 8 months in my early 20's, I know how valuable every day of my life is and am thankful for each day I have. There was a time when I thought "is this all there is" as well. But I have to tell you that this is great compared to what I went through after my accident & after coming home alive from Iraq. Life continues to get better with every year. The older you get, the more confident you become and more comfortable with just being yourself. You also realize that the most important things in life aren't "things" but the people you love and the memories you make. Enjoy being young and healthy. Look around you & I guarantee you can find quite a few things to be happy about and thankful for! Feel better! Everyone has a purpose!

Answer 3

The main issue behind my unhappiness is fear of the future. If only I could believe that companies value long time workers with experience and know how, instead of seeing us as expensive dinosaurs to be discarded like used Kleenex.

I can't tell you how to fix this. Employment is so unstable these days--you never know if your job will be there tomorrow, and how will you find another one that pays enough to live on if your company goes overseas?

I have no sense of "entitlement" in this world--but on the other hand, corporate America is becoming increasingly dishonest when it comes to keeping promises to workers. These are not companies on the brink of failure that are giving fat wages and benefits that they can't afford. I'm talking about extremely profitable businesses that court their stockholders by squeezing their employees.

I hate how the whole American moral fabric has changed; these days, if you get screwed over on the job, you're supposed to shrug and say "That's business!" and move on without a whimper.

Maybe this wasn't the kind of answer you were looking for, but I'd love to hear how many out there agree with me.

Answer 4

You have to be responsible for your own happiness. When we are kids, we are happy mainly. When we grow up and life bites us, we have to realize that no matter how unhappy you are there is something happy. On the other hand no matter how happy you are you will never be without problems. I stopped drinking drugging, at about age 30, developed health problems that I thought were because of stopping the drinking and drugging. They were there all along just never noticed. My firstborn died. My kids moved away with their dad for ten years, my youngest was molested by my best friend for five years. I was divorced. I had my son sent away for a year because I did not know what was wrong with his behavior.
My kids came back when they were old enough, the health problems are better because I take medicine, I went to college, became a nurse, have a good job, bought a house, the man who molested my son in now in prison.
Still though unhappiness prevails, my son is depressed because the boys who were molested with him don't talk to him anymore. He is clean and sober most of the time, they are spiraling downward. he is not going back to school, however is getting his ged. He went back to karate, he is a black belt. My oldest son moved away again. My daughter moved a little ways away for college. She is a senior and plans on continuing for her masters, my oldest is going to become a father, i will be a grandma!!!!!! The car sucks, my son's car blew up. I work 26 out of 28 days a month to pay the bills.
But I am going to go back to college, my son is looking for work,. we are suing the nys troopers for millions because the molester used his trooper connections to get close to us, i have people that love me, my parents and brother live in the same town i grew up in.

It is all a balancing act. Just get involved in your own life, it will never be perfect, just keep growing and changing things. Don't get complacent,, change brings growth.

Answer 5

I think that my mission in life is "to be happy".

I don't really know the recipe for this yet. I keep searching and browsing concepts until I find the resonating formula.

I have attempted big changes. I dared to cut from the networks in which I was suffering. That was a big challenge, but I had to find a solution for getting more happiness in life.

I lost my job, I moved away far from where I used to live (but staying in the same country - France), kept contact with my family & close friends.

But the big change of all was to switch the language I was using for trying to express my blocked emotions.

French is my native language and I use it quite well. But that language is intrinsicly blocking & heavy, in comparison with English.

Surprisingly, I discovered that I could express/free myself much more easily in English, in spite of some lacks in my vocabulary.

Thanks to internet, I could open myself more to english-speaking persons and I could re-learn how to live happier.

I have been feeling like an expatriated person as far as I can remember. Thx to my sharing with english-speaking persons on internet, then on the phone, regular mails, and soon in person, I could get more balance in life.

I also had to get rid of all the beliefs that disturbed me since I was a child. I could do this especially on internet, with american persons on line.

I dared to spend lots of money & time in communications. I think it was a survival instinct.


Have those changes worked?

Well, my life seems less meaningless since then, although I still need lots of time for recovering (I suffer of a serious disease since my teen age).

"To be happy in life" is deeply printed in my inner-self. This is my goal until my last breathe.

Answer 6

I don't think we truly forget how to be happy, but we may temporarily forget how to slow down and notice it. We get so caught up in the day to day race for survival that we neglect to stop and appreciate the little things.

Today, I am happy. No work today due to the holiday. I have a good cup of coffee and one of my cats has joined me on the computer. Life is good.

Answer 7

When you stop focusing on materialism and start focusing on people you will be happier. The cliche is money does not buy happiness. It doesn't, it buys things. When people are focused outside themselves they are happier than people who are self-concerned or who seek happiness in objects. It does not matter if the Joneses car is better or newer than yours. It does not matter if the Smithes have a bigger home. What matters is the relationship you have with yourself and your family, friends, etc.

I have met many people and the common factor in their happiness was that they had a passion and focus outside their own concerns. An ex-solider was most happy in his life when he was in the war because he felt he was helping our people be free. A nurse who once thought that he needed things to make him happy found that he compassion and caring for others made him happy.

Look at the rich and famous who drown themselves in booze and drugs. You look at them and think that they have everything: fame and fortune, adoration of millions. But they are not happy because they do not have a purpose in life beyond satisfying the superficial needs.

Answer 8

NO I don't think you ever forget but you may not have the money or the time or the people that you would like to have there with you.

Once you have kids there goes the money and a good bit of time.

:o)
Jerry

Answer 9

yes,I've lost the child part of me,i don't know how to have fun,and once you stop playing,you will be unhappy,I'm stuck in a rut,and i cant get out,that sound like a Elvis song

Answer 10

yes, working life for survival has taken away alot.