Happiness

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 06-22-2009, 00:48

The three F's: Firearms, Food, and Family.

**rotorgun** · 06-22-2009, 03:55

My Dad used to always say to us "Take it one day at a time guys." It took me a long time to figure out that he meant to live in "the now" and don't worry what has passed or what will come. Let's face it, we can't do anything about whatever is past or future. You will definitely benefit from stopping to "smell the roses" by concentrating on the present.

"Don't worry.....be happy"

**Hooahguy** · 06-22-2009, 04:14

happiness is a warm cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter night.

**Samurai Waki** · 06-22-2009, 06:49

Couldn't agree more with rotorgun. Sounds like some of the same advice my father imbued with us shortly before he died. His wisdom always shined through, when he'd begin to talk about his days in the Navy.

"Finding Happiness is like sailing; you begin to appreciate the downtime before and after the storms, it should never last quite so long as to lead to boredom, and laziness, but should never be so short as to worry about what will happen next."

**rajpoot** · 06-22-2009, 07:50

It's all relative. Like it's been said before you can't really classify what makes people happy or unhappy, because while I feel very happy gaming on the PC, my grandmother feels happy going to the temple....
However when you achieve the state of perfect happiness, you reach a point where you don't desire anything else at all. You have reached the point/gained/done whatever you wanted and I believe it's as close to the 'enlightenment' thing (that all the religious books in history speak of)a man can get.
More practically though, even this isn't possible I think, since as time passes, one does begin desiring more and more things.....