Generally, how happy are you?

[Bluemofia]

Generally, I'm sad when I'm with people. (anti-social, and people blame me for all of their problems. Even my parents)

I get happier when I am alone. Which is why my favorite place to be at home aside from infront of the computer is in my closet.

And usually I'm with people, as I am only 15.

 

[odintheking]

I'm usually the crazy-lighthearted-hippie-dude, but it depends. I write some dark stuff (not dark as in "I want to cut up my legs so I can serve the Dark Lord for inifinite power" dark, but as in "people will be the downfall of people, and there really is no hope for humanity in the end. All we can do is deal with it", which to some people is dark and pessimistic, ) and think about strange, downtrodden things at night and when I'm alone, but generally nothing can stop me from singing "Stick it to the Man" with my hippie comrade at lunch and making people laugh when I do stupid things. It's really hard to get me down, and even when something bad happens, I usually find a good upside to it.

 

[Fifty]

You don't reckon depression is real? Sure, I agree being emo, having a life style focusing on being depressed, is not the best way to get out of it, but thinking that teen age depressions isn't a serious problem for many, you're ignorant.

I know it's a reality but it's always for the silliest reasons. The people I know who actually have hard lives are NEVER the little "teenage depression" types. It's always the angsty, constantly listening to music, the world doesn't understand me types.

Well didnt you see where he said he liked enrique?

I've had it up to my eyeballs with your Enrique bashing!!!!

 

[CivCynic]

I'm generally quite happy. The one thing that has been concerning me is that I just don't seem to making much progress with the trumpet (hope to make that a career someday...). Boy, I sure hope things change when these gd braces come off.

 

[odintheking]

I'm generally quite happy. The one thing that has been concerning me is that I just don't seem to making much progress with the trumpet (hope to make that a career someday...). Boy, I sure hope things change when these gd braces come off.

Wow, you're playing trumpet with braces. That sucks, man. I play trumpet without braces, and my lips hurt (and even started bleeding after I played a high part in a song) when I go high. I can't imagine playing trumpet with braces. It'll be way easier when you get them off.

 

[Rhymes]

I'm rarely extatic, but I'm never sad. I'm a pretty well emotionally stable guy.
Life is great, enjoy it.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I know it's a reality but it's always for the silliest reasons. The people I know who actually have hard lives are NEVER the little "teenage depression" types. It's always the angsty, constantly listening to music, the world doesn't understand me types.

There is a difference between normal teenage angst, a life full of real problems, and clinical depression. Due to a chemical imbalance in my brain there will be times when I feel like the world is a dark and awful place, even though everything in my life is going great.

 

[Mirc]

I am happy when I'm not at home or when my mother is not near me. I can't wait to see if my father will be able to divorce. I can't stand her any more.

But I have always something in me that makes me forget everything and be happy again, have hope in future and makes me enjoy life again! Like awakening from a long sleep... That makes me optimistic again.

 

[Sidhe]

I think the extremely cheerful people you mention are often bipolar. I know for myself, anyway, that I am quite happy, but I'm not the least bit bubbly or upbeat. Is my existence shallow and meaningless? Perhaps, but I don't know what would make mine distinct from yours or anyone else's. Perhaps I live in denial, but I see no reason to think so. My environment is stress-free, but that's because I don't stress about things. There are a few things going on in my life that I think people would generally call "stressful". I'm not Buddha, Jesus, or any other sort of super-human. Learning to appreciate calm quietitude without enduring constant suffering is a worthwhile skill, I must admit. You do not need accentuated points of misery to enjoy yourself.

Ah but remeber the message in the Siddhartha that to really find enlightenment you must have really lived through pain and suffering and joy and wisdom, without knowledge of suffering, enlightenment cannot exist and without sadness, hapiness is an illusion. I refer you to the part at the river were he tries to kill himself.

You may well find your way to a state were you are stress free and you may well consider it valuable, but you didn't get there by living in a vaccuum, I think that's the point.

I don't think I'm advocating accentuated points of misery that sounds like a very Neitzchian philosophy, just stating that yin and yang can only be in balance if one or the other is part of the equation.

I feel like the old guy in Kung fu again, now where did I put my cane?

 

[Sashie VII]

I feel like the old guy in Kung fu again, now where did I put my cane?

Are you sure it was a cane? Probably a spear

 

[Mirc]

Did anyone else observe that the bars are getting longer and longer at the "happier" options (except estatic)?

 

[Sidhe]

Why would a blind man carry a spear Not going to make a very god soldier or hunter for that matter

Did anyone else observe that the bars are getting longer and longer at the "happier" options (except estatic)?

I'm attributing that to the weekend for most people work is awful, a sort of slave camp where they force you to do stuff so that you can do the suff you actually want. And it's a bank holiday on monday here, that cheers people up, maybe the UK voters are skewing the stats.

 

[Sashie VII]

Why would a blind man carry a spear

Well, if he's a guru who trains spearmen to defeat tanks...

Did anyone else observe that the bars are getting longer and longer at the "happier" options (except estatic)?

The lack of ecstatic voters was probably due to people realizing that they will have to return to work after the weekend

 

[Sidhe]

Well, if he's a guru who trains spearmen to defeat tanks...



The lack of ecstatic voters was probably due to people realizing that they will have to return to work after the weekend

Ah I see isn't that just a rather more literal version of the blind leading the blind. If your blind and you can defeat tanks with spears I'd say your a god of some kind

 

[Sashie VII]

Which reminded me. I've never had such an occurrence in my own games, but my friend did. His elite spear beat a vet tank and he renamed the spear "Spear God"

 

[Lotus49]

Achieving happiness is just a matter of being able to positively control one's mood. This is made easier by determining what drives you (what you want to do), setting goals along those lines, and working towards them each day. Thus, you have an ongoing sense of satisfaction.

As for feeling 'up', or 'down', it's really all just psychological. If you really want to, and also learn to do it effectively, you can put yourself in whichever mood you want.

Like I always say, "take control & advantage of your body's chemistry, not vice versa".

"Mind over matter".

"Will power triumphs over all".

"All problems are psychological".

 

[funxus]

I know it's a reality but it's always for the silliest reasons. The people I know who actually have hard lives are NEVER the little "teenage depression" types. It's always the angsty, constantly listening to music, the world doesn't understand me types.

But that's my point, when it comes to (teenage) depression, it often doesn't have much to do with having a hard life or not, it's a chemical thing. Some people have a hard life and can handle it and still go strong, some people break down in such situations. Then you have those who doesn't have anything really bad in their life to complain about (doing well in school, strong family, friends...), and outwards look like they're happy, but still go to bed contemplating suicide every night. Other people can't handle covering up their own misery, and need an outlet, complaining about non-problems like my parents don't understand me and I can't skate wherever I want...

The point is that some people get depressions, others don't, and everyone handles it differently, and while you think it's a silly reason for someone to be depressed about something non-trivial, it's most likely just an excuse for expressing how bad they actually feel.

 

[punkbass2000]

Ah but remeber the message in the Siddhartha that to really find enlightenment you must have really lived through pain and suffering and joy and wisdom, without knowledge of suffering, enlightenment cannot exist and without sadness, hapiness is an illusion. I refer you to the part at the river were he tries to kill himself.

Enlightenment is an illusion and I have no interest in it. If my happiness is illusory, I don't really care. In any case, I have knowledge of suffering.

You may well find your way to a state were you are stress free and you may well consider it valuable, but you didn't get there by living in a vaccuum, I think that's the point.

IMO, I am stress-free by choice. I don't view things as being problems, I don't take things personally, I don't get caught up in the little things that always happen. In short, I don't worry. I will admit that I do sacrifice being ecstatic, I think. I'm not an easily excitable person; some would say it's not worth the tradeoff, but I think it is. I do have moments of bliss, anyway.

I don't think I'm advocating accentuated points of misery that sounds like a very Neitzchian philosophy, just stating that yin and yang can only be in balance if one or the other is part of the equation.

Well, I suppose the end of my last paragraph addresses this.

 

[Dann]

Which reminded me. I've never had such an occurrence in my own games, but my friend did. His elite spear beat a vet tank and he renamed the spear "Spear God"

So now he has to make sure it never gets into battle again (the RNG will not be so kind the next time around), bring it back to his capital, and enshrine it.

 

[Sashie VII]

So now he has to make sure it never gets into battle again (the RNG will not be so kind the next time around), bring it back to his capital, and enshrine it.

Speak of the devil. He actually built a barricade on a mountain tile in the middle of his empire and fortified the "SPEAR GOD" there for the rest of the game.