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So where do you find it? Is there something that gives you happiness or do you find it elsewhere?

I'm just curous as what makes people happy.

Went to church this morning with my wife of 41 years, sat holding my 5 mo. only grandson, ate Sunday dinner with longtime friends and my kids, talked with one of my former students who is going turkey hunting with me, looked at some old pictures with my wife of friends that have passed on, and I'm now in my reloading room loading up some .38s for a mod 14 SW that'll stackem up.

Happiness is what and who and is everwhere if you look for it..

Huntin' n' screwin', eatin' n' drinkin', younger women, older whiskey, guns, knives, campin', hikin', fishin', shootin', ridin' my motorcycles...good stuff like that!

BINGO! The first post gets it right.

Happiness is not what you have, not where you work, not who you know, not what you eat, nor how many millions in your 401K. There are thousands out there who have all those things and cannot find happiness. Happiness is in your mind. You can choose to be happy or you can choose to be miserable. It's up to you. I choose to be happy.

Just feeling good, seeing the people that are important to me be happy, living in the present and recalling good times from the past, basically living a simple life do it for me.

Thanks Scott for adding that to mine.

Yall have a happy day..

+1

happiest moment for me is blowing the air horn for a kid in a car.Of course helps if parents know it's coming

that for me is the most pure happiness.Putting a smile on a youngster's face with some something as simple as acknowledging them with sounding the air horn on the truck

You two have nailed it. It is your choice and I choose to find my joy not my misery.

You too.

Happiness for me is nothing more than a great day with the family. My needs are very simple.

To put it to more material terms, when my daughter is pitching, and has it on cruise control, just plain fun to watch.

When my son is at the range with me shooting his beloved AK, to me that's fun.

When my wife is smiling, and we are together for some quality time, that's fun.

As I said, my needs are very simple. All else is just "stuff."

I have a daughter who is constantly chasing happiness. As long as she is playing, laughing, and partying, she is too busy and distracted to think about the fact that she is not happy.

As soon as the fun stops, she becomes very depressed, but refuses medical attention for depression.

She is one of many who makes that mistake the happiness can be given to you by another.

I find happiness within myself and by sharing life with my wife, kids and grand kids.

Sometimes just a little solitude provides much comfort and well being.

Especially when found in nature as along the shores of some hidden bay in a peaceful small Western Minnesota lake ~ ~ ~ ~

Amen to the solitude. I've got a private place that I go to think and pray sometimes that my wife doesn't even know about. Been my spot for 50years.

If the guys and gals that post here will really think about this it'll be a long thread..

From a serious standpoint, it comes from those within our closest circle. Nothing to do with wealth or image.

Loosely, the Limeys sang about it decades ago:

"Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is! Bang Bang shoot shoot....."

Amen!

I was making that mistake for sure, until a certain someone pointed it out to me, and now I know the difference. I have spent a lot of time since Thanksgiving/Christmas finding happiness within myself, and learning not to worry about things I can not control. I am not completely changed or running around deliriously happy all the time, but I am far more at peace with myself and my life. I know complete change is not an overnight thing, but rather something that comes with time

Lynn

I wrote a short story about solitude several years ago. It is a fiction but relates to my inner workings.

I love my wife and our time together is refreshing and renewing to me like almost nothing else. But once in a while I need a little solitude.

I must say that I am happy by what I read.

Some define happiness as money, possesions or such.

Family ,friends and contentment are indeed big factors.

I realized today the most happiness I find is in serving Jesus. I am not perfect by any means but strive day by day.

Still serving Him and spending time in fellowship brings me the most happiness.

May God enrich your days and bless you all. Seeing such fine people here, with all the chaos in the world, gives me hope for the future.

A comfortable bed with flannel sheets on a cold night in a completely dark room.