What is happiness to you?

[capoeira]

Happiness to me is being in good health.

Happiness to me is getting paid and my rent and bills were paid last week so I have money to play around with.

Happiness is unconditional love.

Happiness is a full tank of gas and money in your pocket on a friday night.

Happiness is a fresh haircut and a new outfit.

Happiness is stepping out of a hot shower and walking into the next room as the cold air hits you.

Happiness is being at peace with in my own life dispite how the world is going crazy all around me.

Happiness is having no room mate!!!!!

Happiness is watching my favorite movie in my draws eating a bucket of cookies and cream!

Happiness is me being single and doing whatever the hell I want, when I want!

Happiness is hitting the gym and being suprised at how much more I can lift.

Happiness is having all my bills being paid doing something I love as a hobby!!!!!!! (Almost feel guilty they're actually paying me!!!!)

Happiness is the friends I got! Yeah, we're lame , but we're not your average black men, puerto ricans, and filipinos!

Happiness is taking my hummer back, (In which I couldn't afford) and buying my 1978 volkswagen beetle and not feeling disappointed one bit!

Happiness is being an aspiring hip hop artist, and a rock band member! (Damn I'm versitile!)

Happiness is buying a new release from your favorite artist, getting home, and listening to it while reading the album's credits and shout outs!

Happiness is just out socializing and connecting with people from all over, laughing and nobody getting hurt.

Happiness is that shirt in my profile picture.

Happiness is good sex.

Happiness is learning from your mistakes and succeeding.

Happiness is weather in the south pacific!

Happiness is when you ladies meet! :biggrin:

[Hiroshi2]

Happiness is not worrying about a damn thing. Which means that it's unattainable (at least permanently, you get temporary happiness all the time).

[urbia]

Happiness is

... playing with my ferret,
... a road trip to Daytona Beach with my friends,
... playing video games,
... finding that perfect shade of lipstick,
... a home dye job that turns out well,
... acing a serve in volleyball,
... landing that frontside grind on my rollerblades in Montreal during a rainy night in a random city park in the three-hour break between bus transfers at the Greyhound terminal,
... the endorphins after a long work-out,
... winning first place in a city track meet despite wearing a knee brace from a recent leg injury,
... reading Larissa Lai's books,
... seeing my work published in the comic book stores,
... stumbling across a beautiful graffiti tag in the midst of really lousy ones,
... drinking milk green bubble tea,
... clubbing in a city with a non-smoking bylaw,
... wakeboarding without falling in too much,
... finding lowrise jeans that fit my proportions,
... photographs that turn out well,
... 90-minute aromatherapy massages at the spa,
... staring into the ocean past midnight and seeing nothing but hearing the endless roaring,
... a good hair day.

[robotic]

the streets were filled with the rush of people coming and going, and among them a group of religious fanatics hustled about, trying to stop people with the question "what is happiness?" i, myself, was stopped several times, but i managed to get them out of my hair by coldly telling them i didn't know. upon hearing my response, they skilfully backed away as if i had pushed a rewind button. their question, however, lingered in my heart, and after that i hummed a few songs with the word in the lyrics. but wait, i thought. there's a place in this world with an unreachable image that shines intensely of gold, representing that one thing each of us truly longs for. it is stronger than hope, or light, or all of the other things combined. it's that intense. and if someone was to ask me about happiness infront of a train station, i would run away from it and hide. it's something that if i encountered while drinking, i would feel an intimacy with it. something just around the corner, waiting to be taken in your hand. - amrita

personally, i too feel that happiness is such a strong feeling that it cannot come all at once, there are just temporary, swift glances of it (as pointed out by hiroshi3) through things we enjoy, love and cherish.

happiness, in points:-

- riding a bicycle on a cold morning
- taking photographs
- looking at the clouds, or at the sunrise
- smiling at strangers
- feeling good about what you have done
- not feeling restraint, or prevented, from what you want to do
- hugging

;_; so many things.

[Emperor_Mike]

Happiness is accomplishing everything I set out to do in the exact manner resulting in the exact outcome I had envisaged. Of course, barring that happiness in my book is spending a day doing nothing in the countryside.

[Hiroshi2]

that'll never happen, mike