applause, applause

On Sep 9, 11:11 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Heh ahhh but ask yourself why I seem to be happy most of the time?
>
> Simply put it is my rather nilhistic outlook on life.  When I die,
> when all that knew me and my works die, when all of my works crumble
> into dust, then it will be as if I was never here.
>
> Knowing this then each an every problem that life chucks at me, well
> I'm more inclined to shrug my shouders, deal with the problem or not,
> and carry on living.  Nothing much phases me, nothing much registers
> as unsolveable and if it does, I simply live with it.  Why be unhappy
> when all that you are and have been will one day matter not a jot, no
> just live your life now and be happy with it.
>
> On 9 Sep, 16:00, Lonlaz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I really do envy people like you, who can be happy all the time.  My
> > center is probably more like calmness.  When I think of my family and
> > my life in lot, I feel at most contented.  Happiness is just another
> > feeling, and a disposition for some.  It also is a word that sets off
> > warning lights for me, reminds me TV ads selling laundry detergent,
> > people deciding they deserve that red convertible, cults and religions
> > making promises.
>
> > Perhaps this isn't what Molly means by happiness, but maybe what she
> > does mean needs a different word.
>
> > On Sep 9, 9:40 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > Umm I think I garee with you.  I'm generaly insanly happy, and yes
> > > this seems to piss people of sometimes.
>
> > > I don't go chasing happines though, I gusee I'm just happy with my
> > > lot, you know good job, great wife, two seemingly well adjusted
> > > children(a rareity for my family it seems). In short I guess if I had
> > > things to be unhappy about, well I might just be.
>
> > > On 9 Sep, 15:26, Lonlaz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > I find it strange to seek happiness as the base state of my life, that
> > > > sounds exhausting.  Every once in a while I feel happy, but what I
> > > > strive for is to be engaged, which usually involves unhappy things
> > > > like stress and failure, the end result can involve happiness, but
> > > > that is not the point for me.
>
> > > > I wonder, Molly, if you do not attribute too much importance to
> > > > happiness.  Perhaps it is in the order of a personal truth, and not a
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