2007-01-24 02:50:09 · 6 answers · asked by maymay 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Being grateful for what you have. Not wanting past your means. Appreciating the family, friends, love, income, home, animals, job you have. Being grateful instead of being resentful for what you don't have and think you should. Big difference. Be glad you have food; don't be resentful it's not steak. Be grateful for a home; don't be resentful it's not bigger or nicer. Be grateful for family; don't be resentful it's not the family you would have chosen. Be grateful for love; don't be resentful it's not the love you would have chosen. Be grateful. If you can't find you can be grateful, it's probably destructive , especially in love. At that point, move on. But being grateful is a great way to happiness.
2007-01-24 03:02:22 · answer #1 · answered by Scoots 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always thought it was the great way you feel when all the house is clean and all your problems are gone.
Gee, like that was ever going to happen.
But I think that's what we're all raised believeing- that happily ever after means the conflict in the Disney story is over, and everyhing is good.
Well, if it's not one thing, it's another, as we learn as adults...
so happiness must be all the good things that we strive to focus on, even with the all the "other" things.
It really IS taking time to smell the roses, or look back through the photo albums, or walking for sheer fresh air.
It's reminding others of those times, too, and planning for new ones.
It's keeping ourselves in check, because it's so easy to focus on crap.
It's so easy to yell at our kids when wrong, and forget about the good they do while we weed the lawn or pay the bills or take care of our sick parents...
Happiness is what you MAKE it!
And we need to start teaching our kids to MAKE happy, those of us who had to find out the hard way, at 20 years old, whatever...
And kudos to the people who already are showing their kids that!
2007-01-24 03:00:47 · answer #2 · answered by starryeyed 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having a relationship with God.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:25-26 (in Context) Ecclesiastes 2 (Whole Chapter)
BE BLESSED & REJOICE IN THE LORD!
2007-01-24 02:59:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Happiness is an inner state of peace and contentment with reality
2007-01-24 04:07:46 · answer #4 · answered by Fred 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A place that never seems to last very long. Its too beautiful for the human body to take I think.
2007-01-24 03:00:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A satisfied mental state of well-being.
2007-01-24 02:57:53 · answer #6 · answered by redrancherogirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋