2007-01-05 03:23:37 · 8 answers · asked by Fruitful1 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Different strokes for different folks.
Personally I find happiness in keeping myself healthy, sports, reading... but more importantly taking care of my family.
There is a lot of stuff you can read about trying to find happiness, but we are all different and you probably won't find answers in a book.
I suggest you start doing things totally non characteristic of you, completely outside the normal routine.
For instance, if you haven't ever played a video game, try it. If you've never read the bible, try (and make a real effort to understand it). I find happiness for me lies is doing whatever I never considered doing.
You probably won't find that happiness comes to you by doing one particular thing. You will get bored, and eventually quit.
Expand your horizons. Seek to learn as much as you can about everything you can, and do not be tied down by the normal routine anymore.
Seeking happiness is a quest that should never come to an end. The minute you stop asking what else might make you happy is the minute you stop living your life.
I know I sound like bloated fortune cookie message, but it's true.
Don't stop searching for what makes you happy, not for anything or anyone.
2007-01-05 03:41:31 · answer #1 · answered by N 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can tell you what does NOT bring happiness. It doesn't come when we find the right relationship, or when we have all of the material possessions that we think we need. It does not depend on what the people around me are doing. It is difficult to describe. It was something that I had to make a decision to do. Someone told me - when I was at my worst - that I needed to do the 'opposite' of what my natural instincts told me to do. Like if I was miserable and did not want to be around people, that I should force myself to spend time with some friends or whoever. Personally, I went to a 12- step group that gave me a lot of suggestions and helped me follow a plan to do things differently in my life. I could not just 'think' my way into happiness or wait for some life-changing event to happen. I had to do some footwork. It didn't happen overnight, and I certainly don't feel wonderful all the time, but I learned some new ways to cope with what life throws at me. I was suicidal for years, and now it never enters my mind. A lot of days - that is enough to make me feel happy. I have to focus on the things that I have that are positive.
2007-01-05 12:48:23 · answer #2 · answered by amethyst1195 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, on some days, we are all asking this question. Happiness is often described as a peace that you feel within. Peace is knowing that you are doing what your heart tells you to do. I chose to answer this question because I have posted questions like this myself. Very often I may add. You see looking to the computer hasn't helped me find my peace, no one knows what that is but me. Just like you, I figure that you have had a negative expiernce lately to be asking as that is always what prompted me to run to the internet like God would e-mail an answer on something that would change my life forever. We've all been taught since birth about morals and divinity. Its a way of life. If you are doing whats best for yourself and the ones you love than continue doing it...your inner happiness will come. In fact it is probably already there, you just haven't opened your eyes to it. Be patient with yourself.
2007-01-05 11:31:22 · answer #3 · answered by forever 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just be happy by accepting who I am and believing that I'm still not late to achieve things that I want to achieve. Much of the life would still be uneasy, but knowing that there is a future and it all depends on what I do with it makes me happy. ??
2007-01-05 11:34:57 · answer #4 · answered by wat~ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only through Christ....
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
2007-01-05 11:26:00 · answer #5 · answered by Heatmizer 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm still looking. Any ideas where I can find it? I am in desperate need of it. And nothing with religion please
2007-01-05 11:32:27 · answer #6 · answered by on_a_need2know_basis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have it by selflessness, no hatred, no jealousy and contentment with what you have and who you are.
2007-01-05 11:41:10 · answer #7 · answered by sianpu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well you are curious
2007-01-05 11:25:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋