Ben, i love your interest in happiness. Everyone else (myself included, but i'm trying to reform, seriously) is so bent on refining their pervading sense of cynicism that it's no longer fun to be alive most days...
i'd have to think longer than i have right now about what my idea of pure happiness is; but children's drawings certainly would come close. i should scan some of the treasures i've saved from my daughter. (i have 14 yrs' worth lol).
Off the top of my head, though - Bob Marley. If his music could be put into pill-form, there'd be no need for pharmaceutical anti-depressants. Same with Ella Fitzgerald's voice...
The other day my mam sent me loads of boring crap i need like phone bills and bank statements. It was such a boring parcel but then right at the bottom i found a picture by my dosabled brother which is not unlike the ones in your post - that made me really happy!
OK, so it's later Getting to the state of happiness can be a different process at different times. A lot of people who are not very well off in a material sense are still very happy and soooo many people who have all the wizz-bangs that modern life can give them, and a few extra bells and whistles too, are so unhappy it wrecks their lives. So clearly, it isn't about having/not having. We've just been out to lunch. We've known the guy for a couple of years now, but just met his wife and family today. (This will get to happines..lol) Now, he has been in NZ for roughly five years. Escaped from a country I won't name and fled, leaving his family. He had to go to save himself; they were OK to stay. But because of recent events they too became unsafe and he had to get them out. They arrived recently. Now, get this: he is sooo happy to be reunited with his family after all those empty years. She, although now reunited with the husband she loves, is sooo unhappy and desperately homesick that she wants to go back, despite the dangers and
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Yeah, i agree Dir. It's about what you make of where you're at. "More buddhist". :D That's exactly it!
Ben, i've listened to your music, and it's great :). Do you do all your own instrumentation? Please don't tell me you don't cos i want to believe you're *very* talented.
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Ben, i love your interest in happiness. Everyone else (myself included, but i'm trying to reform, seriously) is so bent on refining their pervading sense of cynicism that it's no longer fun to be alive most days...
i'd have to think longer than i have right now about what my idea of pure happiness is; but children's drawings certainly would come close. i should scan some of the treasures i've saved from my daughter. (i have 14 yrs' worth lol).
Off the top of my head, though - Bob Marley. If his music could be put into pill-form, there'd be no need for pharmaceutical anti-depressants. Same with Ella Fitzgerald's voice...
Sorry your soup disappointed you today.
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Pure happyness to me would be to have someone
Always there
and never go ever
I guess it would help pull me through life
It would probally help me forget this frame of mind I'm so familiar with...
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Getting to the state of happiness can be a different process at different times. A lot of people who are not very well off in a material sense are still very happy and soooo many people who have all the wizz-bangs that modern life can give them, and a few extra bells and whistles too, are so unhappy it wrecks their lives. So clearly, it isn't about having/not having.
We've just been out to lunch. We've known the guy for a couple of years now, but just met his wife and family today. (This will get to happines..lol)
Now, he has been in NZ for roughly five years. Escaped from a country I won't name and fled, leaving his family. He had to go to save himself; they were OK to stay. But because of recent events they too became unsafe and he had to get them out. They arrived recently. Now, get this: he is sooo happy to be reunited with his family after all those empty years. She, although now reunited with the husband she loves, is sooo unhappy and desperately homesick that she wants to go back, despite the dangers and ( ... )
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I shall comment more on what you've said when I wake up, I just glanced down and saw my msn thing say I had a new message.
Hope all is well = ]
And if you get bored!
check out my british music site, www.myspace.com/mrdialysis its british rap and yes you will love it.
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Ben, i've listened to your music, and it's great :). Do you do all your own instrumentation? Please don't tell me you don't cos i want to believe you're *very* talented.
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