Are you happy?

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While I'm stressed about school (ok, about my Thesis/Conference, not my classes) and my parents, etc, I'm really happy at the moment. Not in the fleeting way, but in the concrete "Things are, overall, just how they should be" way.

I can sleep peacefully, and wake up on a good note. Much of it is the result of my own efforts to get my life how I want it to be, but some of it is just the cosmic settling of things into their rightful place, I guess.

I hope y'all are happy in your own way too. :grouphug:

:)

I think the worst thing happening in my life now is my girlfriend's stress. My job sucks but it could definitely be worse, and school should be okay this semester. (Aside from having to deal with my arch nemesis of a professor for my sociology class.)

I've always been a pretty upbeat guy though. It's hard to really get me down, haha.

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Arch nemesis, eh? :D

I took a course with him a few years back, Sociology of the Market. That was awful. He is just a really awful professor. I swore never to take a course with him again. But then a couple semesters ago I see "Sociology of Terrorism" as an offered course. Sounds awesome, right? Turns out he was teaching it, and he somehow managed to suck out every bit of compellingness it might have had. He was so bad as a professor that the president of my school's sociology society made a serious attempt to have our marks throughout the semester somehow excluded from the final mark by the faculty or some such because there was never any proper instruction or support given for assignments. Apparently a lot of people can't stand him. (On top of that, pretty much everything he talks about, he manages to relate to game theory in some way. x()

Hellish Prof and Game Theory?! :o

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That truly sucks. I'm sorry. I love Game Theory, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone who doesn't. x(

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There are two labs for the sociology class, one on Tuesdays and one on Thursdays. Two different professors. The one on Thursday has a disproporionately high numbe r of students. Care to guess why? So the good prof that co-teaches the course and does the Thursday labs asked me if I could do Tuesdays because I registered late and had to have him sign me into the class. He said I could do Thursdays if I wanted but I went for Tuesdays just because he asked nicely, haha.

And I don't really mind game theory that much, but it's like he tries to squeeze it into every possible crack that he can. I'm expecting him to somehow fit it into even this course, which is about the basics of social research methods, haha.

Yes, I'm pretty happy...

My life is very comfortable, I adore my husband, and I am secure here ...

However, I am struggling to get a couple of poems to be more lyrical and beautiful than they currently are! :-(

I'm glad that your life is so good right now...

May it ever be so!

I hope your stressors resolve...Not an easy thing with where your parents are, I know... :hug:

Yes, the stuff with my parents is tough. Seeing my Mom is difficult. Mentally, she's the same person she's always been, but the body is failing, badly. Sigh.

I'm trying to focus on the positive. It's working for now, and that's what counts. :)

Good luck with your poems! :D

I have found that being decisive can help to alleviate some stresses. Either way, something's gotta give, no?

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:P

There are still some things that make me unhappy that I think about day in and day out.

but I haven't given up yet

I am feeling a bit of sadness today over the state of affairs outside my own doors. People are having a rough time. But in my own little place on the planet i am quite content and serene. I love my tiny group and am very settled with the eb and flow of life in general. I am quite happy.

Thank you for asking.

Sometimes, all we can hope for is to be "very settled with the eb and flow of life in general", no?

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:)

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there are some things about which i am unhappy, or at least not happy, but overall, i am much happier than i've been in a very long time.

I think this is perhaps the lowest and most depressing point in my life –it feels like a hellish nightmare at the moment and there’s no end in my sight. There’s much in my life to be grateful for, I know, but at the moment everything seems to be beyond a parody of my worst nightmares. Almost every aspect of my life seems to be quite depressing.

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That means a lot to me. You too

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My husband and I have had rewarding careers, and are happily married, we're BFF. I'm retired, and he can retire in less than a year. He's already collecting a pension from a 30-year job and he'll be vested in 09/09 in his current job (he's been civil service all of his life). However, he won't be eligible for Medicare for about 1.5 years later. His dad passed away recently, and he has no other family responsibilities, so we're really wide open as to going somewhere new, and we're loving the options. For the past 2 years, we've been visiting Lewisburg, WV every chance we get, and getting to know the town and people there. It has a Carnegie Hall, a year-round live theatre, Irish pub, martini bar and a dozens of other independent cafes and restaurants, a medical school, a 75 mile rails-to-trails bike trail, a river, and wonderful camp grounds within 15 minutes. It has everything we could BOTH ask for.

OTOH, my parents are constantly pressuring us to move to their small town. My mom is a conservative Democrat. My dad is an extremely neocon, social conservative, fundamental religious, tee-totaling Republican. He never misses an opportunity to express his views about how other people live their lives. We have never lived within 2 hours of them, and right now we live about 7 hours away from them. They moved farther away to their childhood hometown, it was their choice. If we moved to where we want to be, we would be 4.5 hours from them.

Where they live now, it's impossible to go out without running into a cousin. They love that...yet, whenever I visit, I tend to hide between aisles of the grocery (and, ugh, the Wal-Mart) to avoid the whole nosy, gossipy thing about what I'm doing with my life.

My husband and I are old hippies. We still smoke doobies, when we can, and he, at 61 years old, still plays air guitar, and I'm his No. 1 groupie. We really wouldn't fit in and be happy where my parents live. However, they're putting incredible pressure (and guilt) on us to move to where they are. So I'm unhappy, in that regard. My husband would probably give in to their wishes, but I know better, as it would be a nightmare.

I have a job I love, one that is full-filling. Have great friends and colleague. I can pay my bills, and once in a while, do a little traveling.

Life is good.

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I used to be one of those idjits who gets a kick out of smelling a rose or petting a kitten. For a while that person went away, but now she's back. :)

but otherwise i am happy and content

that we've been remodeling since we bought it in mid-May to replace the one that burned down August 2007

I have a wonderful family and a great group of friends. I have a terrific, and cute, boyfriend. I like my job, well at least 95 percent of the time. I am very content with my life.

:)

Am I Happy? Depends on the day and the state of mind

What can ya do? :)

I'd be a lot happier if there was a woman in my life, but barring that, it doesn't get any better than this.....I mean besides being independently wealthy.

Yeah, got a roof over my head, plenty to eat, a little extra cash, and I live independently which is a pretty big deal for a crazy guy.

insecurity, for a long time, and I just really can't cope anymore.

I am glad you are happy, though, bi-baby.

I am ridiculously happy. I feel so incredibly lucky.

I too have a lot of...stuff...going on with my family, and it's extraordinarily stressful. But I have so much love and wonderfulness in my life. I really do feel like I must have done something good in a past life or something.

Thank you.

If I've got something to focus on, I'm okay. Otherwise? Crushing despair. And my meds aren't helping anymore.

hard stuff and overwhelming, but not devestating.

I have no idea if that makes any sense.

Things are hard, and there are a lot of things going on, but I don't have a sense of doom and gloom.... more like, just trudge along and you'll get by.

And I guess that's all we can ask for really... to get by. right?

...disappointment.

no.......

There are some things going on my life right now that are making me unhappy, but they will pass. And things could definitely be worse.

Myself, my friends, and my loved ones just came through a major hurricane without injury or major property damage, so, yeah, I'm pretty damn happy.

Although my thoughts are with the thousands who lost all in the storm.

the one thing that makes me unhappy is illness, or certain types of persistent pain with unexplained origin.

Pesky brain drugs :)

No and yes. Life's like that, no?

Time for bed. :hi:

Depends on how I feel that day, week, or even month!

Sorry, I know that is not the best answer. But I've been pondering this for days! LOL

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