2006-11-16 19:11:41 · 28 answers · asked by Corrigan 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes, but only in brief moments. Working on getting it up to at least 5 minutes per year.
2006-11-16 20:50:28 · answer #1 · answered by whyisthat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we feel what we feel.
At any moment you can say if you are relaxed, tense, angry or cold. But are you happy? It is your choice, not your feeling.
Happiness is that when we say we are satisfied with the status quo.
Most of us want to achieve more all the time but we are never there - a mirage - you see.
Some of us are happy all the time, on the inside, but we have to strive for the greater things.
People who look happy give us the notion of being satisfied with what they have - therefore not so demanding or ambitious.
On the other side people who appear to be not Happy and complaning all the time want to achieve better.
Genuinely Happy? I am not sure what it means.
If you achieve that status, you loose the purpose of pursuing anything and therefore your life itself.
EnjOY
2006-11-17 03:48:40 · answer #2 · answered by vinod s 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
genuinely happy? what do you mean? surely it's like all emotions and as a part of being animal and human - always in flux.
happiness is just one aspect of an achievable human emotional state. as it makes us feel nice we all want to achieve it all the time, and can become very sad and frustrated in trying to achieve it all the time, the answer is to let it just be, let it go when it just goes, and welcome it back when it just comes. you can be genuinely happy when genuinely sad for some unknown reason, but then again even that is fleeting! you just cant hope to hold onto any emotion - they have "lives of their own"
all we can all do in life is try and satisfy our basic needs and wants : getting a new car/house/flat screen tv is nothing when you compare it to the hug of a loved one when in need, and even that doesn't last a lifetime - we need to do things seperately - when did you last see two lavatories next to each other for lovers to poo together?
2006-11-17 04:59:15 · answer #3 · answered by atticboy30 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes lots of people i mean it can be about anything a guy who likes you or a good grade at school a promotion at work and you will be genuinely happy!
2006-11-17 06:02:06 · answer #4 · answered by DancingGal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have experienced genuine happiness for very short periods of time.
It is a most joyous pleasant feeling that I keep trying to recapture, but the day to day troubles of life prevents it.
That's okay though, I will never stop up trying to find it again.
2006-11-17 03:37:08 · answer #5 · answered by childrenofthecorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
happiness is a state of mind and therefore one can be happy one moment and be unhappy the next.so yes.genuine happiness is there and you expirence it when you have achived what you wanted and at that time you feel your wants are met but because human beings are progressive in mind and thought, there is no one who can be genuinely happy for a long time, once one want is met we imediately instintivly feel a another want.therefore making it seem like we are never genuinely happy.
2006-11-17 05:45:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. But happiness is fleeting, and so I'm not genuinely happy all the time. Sometimes I'm downright sad.
2006-11-17 03:16:11 · answer #7 · answered by ThatLady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
happiness is just like any other feeling like for example being hungry. when people are hungry they do what ever they can to eat some food.
well when people are sad they do whatever they can to make themselves feel happy, as we know, one mans happiness is another mans sadness, and when the person that is now happy realises how selfish they were in order to gain happiness, that's when they become sad again...and so the vicious circle begins
2006-11-17 13:27:54 · answer #8 · answered by TheLizardKing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well lets see....
I've got a roof over my head
Food in my cupboards
I have enough money to pay my bills and have a bit left over
My daughter is healthy and doing well in school
My son is healthy and doing well in the Navy
I am in a happy relationship,and we love each other very much
I've got great friends
Yup-I'd say I'm happy!
2006-11-17 03:35:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Umm,..let me think.
Joy can be had, yes. definite. Its just that I've come to realize that the one thing we all definitely have in common is we all have problems.
i believe genuine happiness can be had if you can program your brain to be happy after undergoing dire straights and still holding faith.
2006-11-17 03:26:21 · answer #10 · answered by upcomingplayer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋