Are you happy being you?

Question

I once read or heard that by the time you hit thirty you should know more of who you are. Thats not to say Im not happy being me, sometimes I love being me, its just sometimes I thought Id know myself more than I do! Im sure by the time I hit fifty I will! Any advice!

Sorry Michael but from your profile I can see that youre a barrel of laughs with your pointless God questions. Yawn.

As for apostrophes I cant be arsed.

Sorry Esther I will NEVER believe in God, I am a scientist with huge huge respect for the greatest atheist of all - Richard Dawkins!

I can find happiness without the need to waste my time, but thankyou for your answer.

Answer 1

I have a problem, I'm 40 next week and I always said that then I'd be too old for Clubs and Festivals but I still go to them. I know that I'll still be young compared to some at Glastonbury but there you go. Maybe I should just think my younger self wasn't very well educated and if I ever travel back in time tell me to grow up.

Answer 2

Hi Chris. Yes, I am fabulously happy with myself. Maybe when I am older and finally out of graduate training I will be even more happy.
I might add, my best mates and champions in life were athiests who died in their middle 70's.
Though, I might add I am an anglican, but would not be caught dead in a church.
Here's the Chuckie rationale for life and happiness:
If it feels good and does not hurt another living thing... give it a go. I celebrate Christmas because it is fun, no apologies, no really rational reason.
Attempt to prove nothing. Some people will agree with anything, others will nothing. So prove only for the sake of proof, for one's own satisfaction.
Live life by two basic rules, "do what is right for the sake of right" and "avoid debates that one can not win, unless you want to have fun."
When it comes to logic, Dawkins rules in our day and age. If you can get anything by Richard Fineman (Spelling?) or the biography of Linus Pauling, you might enjoy those.
As for me, I can never discount science, and think Christians are gits when it comes to taking things too literally.
The theology works by C.S. Lewis, for me were at least well developed and interesting.
What is important is being happy. And if I die, and there is no God, no loss. If there is a God, as one of my deceased mates (athiest) remarked, she will have only one thing to say "OOPS!" :)
--That Cheeky Lad

Answer 3

I'm 33. In my short life I have come to one personal conclusion: Not to put much too much value into what so-called "experts" have to say on ANY issue. There's tons of good information out there, I know, on many different subjects. But something like this, I think, is completely subjective. I mean, what authority figure came up with "the answer" that one should know himself/herself by the time they hit 30? I know myself very well, but learn more the longer I live, the more people I meet, the more challenges I face, and trials/tribulations I work through. You gotta be happy in your own skin because you're the only one wearing it! I'm feeling you, though. I'm 13 years into a career and still don't know what I want to be when I "grow up". And THAT'S when it hits you. You wake up start to question, "What the heck am I doing?" "Where am I going?" "What do I want out of life?" We're so programmed to go to college to get a "good job" that most of us never to stop to think about what we really want out of this thing. So, I continue to get up and go to work every morning cause there's bread to be eaten, but in my spare time, in my quiet moments, I do ponder the real meaning of life and wonder if we were meant for something better. Hmmm... just mid-life crisis maybe? There's no telling how I'll feel when I hit 40! :-)

Answer 4

Well, do what you will without regards to what other people think, and you'll probably be well on your way to being happy as yourself. Looking at your very active pro-Atheist comments, I'd say you still have a little work to do on not caring for whether you like someones beliefs or not.

Answer 5

Most of the time, I am still in the process of developing a career, thats the last thing on my major list of things to do.

Answer 6

Yes, I am happy being me. I have always felt that a person should know who they are. Just don't get confused between knowing yourself and old and set in you ways. lol Seriously.

Answer 7

My best advice comes from the bible: Jesus said, "he who seeks to keep his life will lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake, will find it."

Do you really want to be the person that God intended you be? Give up your life into the keeping of Jesus Christ, seek first the kingdom of God. You will become more your "true" self, the more you surrender yourself. I have never been happier, because my life belongs to Him.

Answer 8

Nope, wish I weren't so shy, I wish I were a rich man, and super smart!

Answer 9

happiness is a dream, i think..... but intermittent boosts of joy and pain seem part of life, i just spend more time appreciating those boosts of joy trying to hold onto them a little longer.......

Answer 10

You're thirty years old and you think 'chrismyarse' is funny and a good way to represent yourself. You also don't use any apostrophes.

There; you know more about yourself now.