What makes you happy?

Good coffee

Olives

Fresh basil

Sambas

Oldies

Friends who allow me to be while getting each other's sense of humor

If all else fails, try sex.

xposts

ok, but really happy: feeling loved. singing. dreaming about all the cool stuff i want to do after college (getting a job not being one of them). dinner with family or friends.

my baby daughter

And strangely - Aberfeldy?

They're really good!

Also - Green Gartside!

And beer.

Food, music, friends, mind-bending books about physics.

holy shit. all those things depress the hell out of me.

sometimes I wonder if the pursuit of happiness is a strictly american concept

the american twist is that it's "the pursuit of owning stuff"

When I read about the "pursuit of happiness" now, I think of 9/11 and bright, talented worthwhile people losing their own life, or losing their loved ones' lives, and how maybe some people ought to stop going on and on as if life is one smooth trajectory, where you ought to live out the plans you made when you graduated from college. I still have people around me who do this, they go on and on about Islamic terrorists but do very little to defend America and I'm not even sure they like their country that much apart from what material benefits come from keeping your job.

So maybe it's an American thing, I don't see British people doing it as much, they seem to love their country more, America has a lot of flag-waving but often articulates no real sense of purpose.

brits are the great patriots of the world imo, nobody loves being british more than the scotchish

flat coke is really good, it's like caramel syrup

― dayo, Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:31 (4 hours ago)

dayommmmm son

the people in my everyday life make me happy. having weekends off makes me happy. early signs of summer, long drives into mountains, table quizzes, long evenings of whiskey and reading, and the way sally o'brien might look at ye, all good lately.

My friends made me hysterically happy on facebook last night -- ask an honest question, get entertained for like 3 hours by the responses.

Being finished with homework
Listening to DEVO
hanging out with great old friends
spring crushes
Fridays

sometimes I wonder if the pursuit of happiness is a strictly american concept

― dayo, Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:32 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Seeing as it is a a key phrase in one of our major founding documents, I would say that yes, it is absolutlely an American concept.

Doesn't mean other folks can't do it too though...

yeah, but ye dont like it when they do, right?

Dukes of Hazzard re-runs on CMT

I would find it a lot easier to pursue my happiness if we had universal health care and 51 weeks of paid vacation like western europe

I'm also onboard for pinball as a source of happiness.

My son and I visited the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, California back in November and it was awesome!

would prefer if all you other types got just happy enough to realize how much your happiness pales in comparison to ours tbh xposts

the one in vegas is pretty amazing

I've been wanting to go there for several years, it looks great.

lol iatee you so bitter, i'm going for a swim and rubdown in my eu-funded private spa

damn you ireland!! we're all jealous of you these days!

oooh snap tbf

Made me happy today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IavYp6mYLT4

Seeing as it is a a key phrase in one of our major founding documents, I would say that yes, it is absolutlely an American concept.

Doesn't mean other folks can't do it too though...

― Moodles, Friday, March 25, 2011 3:58 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

totally! but for a long time I took it for granted that *everybody* in the world was pursuing this

I would say a good % of the planet is 'pursuing happiness' if we use a loose definition of that phrase. but the real difference is in the cultural (/individual) ideas about what constitutes 'happiness'.

yeah I'm wondering what the america definition is

http://express.howstuffworks.com/gif/wq-money-woman.jpg

that is also the chinese definition

commuting makes me really happy because I'm out and about people watching and doing things in the city with thousands of other people and it makes me feel . . . alive.

Totally otm. I love it when little things come together unexpectedly and grab one by the scruff with joy; I was heading home yesterday, looking out of the bus to see a lad on a bicycle keeping effortless pace with cars, and spring sunshine bouncing from office windows like beaten brass. On cue my mp3 player shuffled onto "Bloodbuzz Ohio" and it was one of those moments where the world just lights up.

A beautiful summer morning in the high mountains of the American west, with everything I need sitting in my backpack, a trail to follow and all the time in the world to get where I want to go.

Being outside on a gorgeous day like today

afternoon wine drinking

Being outside on a gorgeous day like today

― check out my malady (San Te), Saturday, 26 March 2011 17:53 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

afternoon wine drinking

― I expected big laughs from "Corky Romano" (brownie), Saturday, 26 March 2011 20:49 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

All this followed by an afternoon nap.

Latte, couch, rainy outside...yay

Right now, what is making me happy is exchanging music with a new friend, both of us suprising each other with things the other had not heard before, and both of us hitting the mark/loving what we hear. That and the anticipation of something new and good, which just won't leave my thoughts all day. :)

:D

w00t for Trayce!

:D :D

Also what makes me happy, similarly to Laurel, was me posting a silly FB post and waking up the next morning to find a multi-post hilarious back and forth from 3 of my friends debating wether or not I'd had illicit secksy man secks with man. Or the singer of Icehouse. It was utterly bizare and thats why I <3 them so.

Animal Kingdom. A perfect movie. It's like a poem. I know it's a very bleak movie. But that's I guess that's how I like it and that's what makes me happy.

Also, LIFE. It's awesome.

Walking in sunlight (reasonably easy to manage) while knowing that my household finances are sound (rather harder for me to manage right now).

Avoided this thread for a while because I had no answer. Mookieproof's revive post otm.

Gotta co-sign Laurel and Trayce...a Dolly Parton clip posted to a friend's wall on FB for her birthday has led to a virtual reunion of all my best friends from college and loads of Dolly Parton YouTube clips...couldn't be happier right now

You okay WmC?

If it helps, both mookies posts and yours make me happy quite often WmC! :)

No crisis, I just don't get much happiness out of my circumstances and don't anticipate them changing for a few years. Just been in 'garbage in, garbage out' stasis for so long that I would totally have to relearn how to have a conversation.

xpost -- thank you, Trayce!

Conversations! Conversations make me happy.

:)

Me too! Conversations are always invigorating and good for the mind.

Old friends make me happy. Never let them go! I got a call from my best friend of 12 years and I can't believe how edifying it is to have such a cool, solid, responsible, bright gal who cares about me in my life.

Thats awesome and I agree!

Whenever any of my oldest friends ping me out of the blue I feel so happy that I have ppl who care. One friend N, he'll just randomly message me on MSN to tell me I rock and he loves me, esp when I've written a blue post on livejournal or something. Even tho hes married now, he'll always make time to say good things. those kind of people in ones life are fucking precious!

today a stranger, this old man bought our table's lunch. me and two other guys from work. Someone who didn't stick another to announce himself. It felt nice and made me happy about people. After work I did a few things that made me happy.
-Making a George Strait playlist
-drove slow/not being in hurry
-Playing Tribe Called Quest at a loud volume
-wrote my daughter a letter that I will give her at a much later date

What makes me happy? that's easy! being healthy, having free time, freedom of choice, freedom of motion and small amount of discretionary income. when I have all of these I usually choose to go camping or hiking in a fairly wild places.

taking a drawing class right now. i spent two hours the other day quietly drawing several objects, trying to get it right, and it was really nice and meditative. felt happy and serene for the first time in a while.