What makes you happy?

Shiminay

I've just had a sudden thought - what makes people happy?

For me it's standing on a stage, microphone in hand (maybe even a guitar strapped on) and performing infront of a crowd of people who like to hear the kind of music you're playing/making. The best buzz in the world!

The best time of my life was when I had a band - we used to have the best of craic just practicing! None of us could play (most would argue we still can't), but that didn't matter a bit! Recently, we've gotten back together cause the Rhythm Guitarist's 21st is happening in a couple of weeks and we're gonna do a few tunes for old time's sake. I'm really looking forward to it!

Anyway - what does it for you?

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All the best,

Dav
@B^)

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Lucy_la_morte

Love.

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J'ai dormi sous l'eau.

Lucy la morte.

Megatron

sitting down with a few mates and watching tv. talking,drinking also my little sister, eating a nice an very large pizza, and most importantly listening to my "Yo edenmunkinislim" cd ... alaways puts a smile on my face

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No !!!!! I will crush you with my Bare hands

azezil

i really like hangin out with my friend n sister talkin (while p!ssed)about life n other stuff (can't say ere could be children present LOL )

we get on great we just go mental when ever we get together!

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"just because ur not paraniod, doesn't mean they're not after u!"

Excelsior

happiness eh?
all terribly relative but a computer game with lots of statistics in it, something like CM3 does it for me.
a good book.
company of people I like or love.
a good, bad or indifferent film, as long as I get to see it in the cinema.
pasta.

Bard

Love - above all else.

In the background there's always good food, good friends, good conversation, socialising, art & literature... it's quite a broad, sweeping question thar, Dav! - if you were asking "what does it for you above all else" then that's easy... love.

Shinji

Being with people I love, in general.

The single most happy/satisfied I ever felt in my life was when I helped a good friend through a really hard time and got him back on his feet. The sense of achievement from knowing that you've affected someone elses life in a positive way like that leaves you with a glow for weeks.

pepperkin

What makes me happy? In no particular order...

Playing with my kids, watching them sleep, enjoying their triumphs (like when Tristan started pedaling his trike

Writing and then putting it away for two weeks, and then reading what I wrote and actually STILL LIKING IT...

cats!

That my ferret came home after vanishing for 24 hours!

A REALLY good book. The ending doesn't matter if it's a good book, it makes me happy.

One word...s'mores!

When someone I care about is happy.

a kind word, either from me to someone else or vice versa.

Music!

friends!

Excelsior

me wonders if this can descend into flaming?

Canaboid

Achievement

--Kaiser--

Out of topic but:
Pepperkin, can you tell what s'mores are?
I haven't a clue, some sort of snack i think

Lucy_la_morte

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Excelsior:
me wonders if this can descend into flaming?</font>

Every thread descends to flaming, you should know that by now

My cat Lucy, also makes me happy. Only because I love her.

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Lucy la morte.

Bard

Mmmmmmmmm... Smores!!!


(yum!)

pepperkin

Yes, Kaiser, s'mores are a snack. A wonderful, yummy snack.

To make s'mores. You'll need the following ingredients....

any number of good, fun friends
a campfire or some sort of safe flame (unsafe meaning charcoal, lamp oil, anything that causes toxic fumes.)
a bag of marshmallows
a box of honey or cinnamon graham crackers
lots of chocolate bars, any brand
add alcohol if desired.

roast your marshmallow to your preference. Then make a sandwich with....2 crackers, a chunk of chocolate, and your hot toasty marshmallow. Squish together and feast! (marshmallow and chocolate go INside the crackers, *grins*

Let me know if you like them!

Illkillya

i love fishing in the sea on a sunny day (preferably end of spring) in a really remote quiet place thats really hard to get to where u get all the big psycho fish

Clintons Cat

Friendship,Love,happiness,money...well maybe not money but poverty is a big downer.
oh and Sunshine,natures natural medicine.

Blitzkrieger

good music

even if it's depressing music it still manages to cheer me up. I even enjoy the drive home through rush hour with a good CD in

Thanx 4 The Fish

It's my birthday today, that makes me v happy, mmmmmmmm cake.

Happiest above all is probably
when I go home and see my baby
sisters ( well they were babies
when I left home anyway )and of
course the rest of my family.

Yip time with family would have to be it.

Although standing before an audience after
performing for them for a couple of hours
and hearing them applaud you, be it for acting in my case or Singin/Playing in your case Dav, came a very close second

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neuro-praxis

My faith, my books, good movies late on Saturday nights at the cinema, being in love, chocolate, sunshine, singing, my best friend, getting loads of post, seeing hard work pay off, seeing my brother happy, lunch in St Stephen's Green in scorching weather, my patched cords, that stretched out feeling after the gym, good burps, the prospect of moving out in 4 months, kids, making friends laugh, finding £5 in my jacket that I forgot about. [In this space used to be what we are all thinking about for getting happy, but I've edited it out now.]

*I can relate to the applause thing. But not much these days.*

Actually posting this has made me feel quite happy.

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Give me back my towel. I'll sue.

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Paladin

Kharn you got the right idea there mate.
Im practicing hard so someday I can have a crack at maybe being able to play guitar decently for an audience in a band maybe, but the awfully discouraging thing is I cant sing.

Still tho.
Simply playing the guitar, gain up full, power chords a plenty, pi$sing everybody in the neighbourhood off. THAT is fun!!
Other pasttimes fall into a different category of 'happy'.

Manach

A good book to read,
a fine cup of tea to drink,
a moment of sunshine shining through,
and the look on my enemy's face when I play a trump .

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fair is the prize and the hope is great

Chubby

Ice cream,
more ice cream,
penguins,
even more ice cream.

ummm, ice cream... and penguins...

Canaboid

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by neuro-praxis:
[In this space used to be what we are all thinking about for getting happy, but I've edited it out now.]

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Drugs was it ? I bet it was drugs.





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Frodo@work

Sex
Am i the only one that sex makes happy.
and swimming

Excelsior

actually canaboid, last night neuro made a bet with me that in response to her comment it would be YOU who wrote something about how she must have said drugs.

how easily she can predict you.

TwoShedsJackson

So what does she win?

As for what makes me happy, intelligent conversation, beer, general stuff.

El_Presidente

Music, both listening to it and (trying) to make it.

The sun on my back and not worrying about anything other then the present.

Canaboid

Well excel, I was "predicted" by Neuro but you were outsmarted. What did you lose, not your sense of rightousness I hope ?
Still thx for having the faith to bet against it being me

Kali

Happiness is caused by psychedelic hallucinogens acting in hydrophobic pockets in critical brain protein to promote and sustain superposition, 'expanding' consciousness.

http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/hameroff/slideshow_6.htm

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Excelsior

i don't think it was a matter of faith Canaboid. i just made what i thought was a rational bet and lost.


but my sense of righteousness was dented.

of course, my sense of righteousness is so disgustingly overblown, that overall, this dent counts for very little.

sorry, i have to run. there are a group of drug using idolators in some foreign place i have to morally and religiously persecute and supress!

darthmise

Sitting in a big chair with someone special curled up in a ball sleeping on me..., thats my all time favorite place in the world.

Bob Dylan's - Don't think twice it's allright.

Primal Scream's - Screamadelica

My best friends

Going home to see my brothers when I can.

Those 2mins it takes to get the chinese out of the cartons, anticipation I guess.

Fulfilling an ambition.

Writing this post has been great cheers Kharn for a great topic.

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Canaboid

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Excelsior:

sorry, i have to run. there are a group of drug using idolators in some foreign place i have to morally and religiously persecute and supress!</font>

LOL. Do ya need a hand ?

Darthmise, you know Paul Simon ?

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neuro-praxis

I think I won what I edited out.

darthmise

Sure I do, for I Darthmise am in fact....Art Garfunkel!!!...groan, what ever happened to me?

Lucy_la_morte

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by neuro-praxis:
I think I won what I edited out. </font>

LOL

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J'ai dormi sous l'eau.

Lucy la morte.

plastic membrane

seeing a film you know will be a classic at the cinema for tha first time.

Writing. I love it, its a buzz that nothing else can compete with.

Going out with your friends, and everything just falls into place for you. Your funny, your popular, the girls love you. It may seem like drunkeness, but its not, its just happiness.

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Damn it Jim, im a doctor, not a Beefy King !

plastic membrane

also, my video collecton, my music collection, watching crappy 80's tv shows, Buffy, The X Files, long hot, fresh summer days reading a book in the sunshine, watching crappy 80's tv shows with your friends and commenting on how crappy they are, my neice, my nephew, talking with my brother, Homer my pet dinosaur, good books, Rocky Bars, ice cream, juggling, throwing inanimate objects at others, and loving the fact that i enjoy so many things, i can't list them all...

Nice idea Dav, you sentimental old dog...

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Damn it Jim, im a doctor, not a Beefy King !

Hecate

(at the risk of sounding like the opening line of a song) well, if I ever feel down, I just remember these things:

I'm young, healthy, getting a good college education, have friends that i respect and trust, have loved (and lost, heh), live in a country where i'm free to say and think what I want, have a pretty decent part time job and I know where my next meal is coming from.

hmm...well other than that; what makes me happy?,

The first few minutes of Ferris Beuller's Day Off

Paladin

So when you are old, unhealthy, flunked out of college, and down on your luck with no firnds, DONT move to Iran!

Hecate

exactamundo.

Clintons Cat

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Frodo@work:
Sex
Am i the only one that sex makes happy.</font>

heh if you got love and friendship the sex kind of takes care of itself.

Shiminay

heeheehee
I'd forgotten about this thread.

You may have noticed I mentioned a gig I was gonna be playing - well it was last weekend and it was terible, but I loved it! The sound quality was rubbish, the lead guitar player's guitar went out of tune for no reason right before we started and there was feedback everywhere. But, the pub was jammed with some of my best friends (many who hadn't seen me play before) and it was a resounding sucess!

I'll try and get some shots scanned (there's one crazy one of me in particular) and show you!

I've thought about other "make's me happy stuff" and there are plenty - kickin' back with the mates and getting intoxicated (We did quite a bit of that this weekend too). Also, Frodo - gotta agree. Sex is indeed great!!!

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All the best,

Dav
@B^)

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Evil Phil

In no particular order, except for the first. That's the most important:

Having peace of mind
Family
Friendship
Travelling
Good Books
Sitting in parked cars, up the mountains, on rainy days (because I'm warm).
Elisabeth
The mountains
Climbing the mountains
More mountains
Climbing cliffs on the side of mountains
Humanities board being nice to each other for once.
Elisabeth
Animals
Get fuzzy
Good movies
Swimming
Elisabeth up the mountains


And ...

my girlfriend not reading this!

C B

open fires/ warm beds when its raining heavily outside.

going to a rugby match with my dad and brothers (doesn't happen as much as I'd like)

getting time to think/ moments of clarity.

getting home in time to read my son a bedtime story

being persuaded to change my opinion

TwoShedsJackson

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by C B:
being persuaded to change my opinion</font>

i doubt that happens often

SheroN

The fact that one day....I will die and leave this **** hole of a life...and the chance that any ****ers that made my passage through this life tough will die a slow slow painful death....naw only messin....the usual stuff

- Fallin out of bed at 12pm sunday morning after a deadly night out to be greeted by the smell of roasting beef and spuds...

- Making people laugh.......people usually laugh at me though

-Laughing at people (e.g. Castor and shinji).

-thinking about people who i miss and knowing that they are probably thinking about me and missing me.

-A nice cold bottle of cider from the cooler after a day of arsing about in the sun.

-Passing exams that loads of other people failed.

-Seeing people come out and go 'that was simple'....and then they fail....

-Prooving people wrong especially where it involves me winning money.

-Having money to buy things i want.

-The expectation of going on a really good holiday (it usually isn't as good as you hope).

-spouting ****e makes me happy (see above post).

i'm sure there's loads of other stuff too i can't think of but what the hey.

C B

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Castor Troy:
i doubt that happens often

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All the time - I just rarely admit it to the person involved

Vokes

Originally posted by Evil Phil:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Having peace of mind</font>

'Nuff said!!!

Evil Phil

And finally,

Being single again

RopeDrink

Nothing much makes me happy.

I love being around my friends, having a good laugh and a drink, going out on the weekends with the girls (and a few lads - 80% of my friends are girls... they are more reliable, and my best friend is also a girl)

I dont know what makes me happy, but I do know one thing that would make me happy...

For the last two years my mother has been in a coma, which had been induced on her due to alcohol problems... It is, according the various hospitals she has been submitted to, permanant (Or at least long term) and every day is a pain for me...

If I could have just have one minute with her, without her in this comatose, to have just a brief chat and a hug, I'd be happy and grateful, but it's doubtful she'll ever wake up

I live with my father and sister now, with my head in the clouds. The family is falling apart, and my education is suffering.

My mother is now in WestMeath Hospital, where we visit her every fortnight.
How do you think I felt on Mothers Day?

Anyway, I have said it before, I'll say it once more...

There are people all over the planet, with problems far worse than this, so accept your lot and dont question it...

Some people often wonder why I get so uptight, moody and arrogant from time to time... Here's my reason, on a cursed silver plate.

Shiminay

That's tough man.

I watched my Dad die in hospital which was indirectly related to his alcoholism, so I know where you're coming from.

I'd give anything to be able to have a chat with him now, even to have been there when he died (he was in hospital in Galway and I was at home in Castlebar that day), but I know that's not gonna happen.

However, after 5 years, it gets easier to accept. Not much comfort now I know, but something to keep in mind...

Be cool - try and get through school - I just about managed it (should've done at least 3 times better in my LC), but I got to college where I met new people and had new friends to talk to which makes stuff much easier to cope with! My college friends are without doubt the best I have and they will be for a long time to come.

Anyway - spend as much time as you can with yer mates - they'll sort ya out!

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All the best,

Dav
@B^)

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