A question for anyone who has interest in answering it!

[theboywho_lived]

What do you need (or think you need) right now (or in the near future) to make you happy in your life?

Myself, just to survive to my 18th birthday would be satisfactory for now...

Comments

[jehan_prouvaire]

That's a very difficult question. There are so many things a person thinks they will need, yet to filter all those needs to the most important ones is a challenge.

What I would need to be happy is....a world-shattering epiphany, that would revolutionize my writing and change the way I saw everyone, that would make me more bold and eloquent with my words. A sudden leap in the courage of my writing and talking, I suppose I should say. That's probably very vague, but I really don't know how to pin it down.

[theboywho_lived]

Happiness can mean so many different things to different people, can't it?

[jehan_prouvaire]

Yes, it can. :)

[popular_galinda]

Hmm, I would like to get married in the future to my wonderful fiance. That is if Elphie would stop messing around with him!

[theboywho_lived]

That's a fine and respectable goal. He makes you happy?

[popular_galinda]

Oh yes, he makes me very happy.

[antique_adonis]

Having the love of everyone, knowing that everyone thinks I am a wonderful person and that everyone would fight to have me.

[theboywho_lived]

Don't you think that will be difficult to achieve or that's easy for you? Do you think you will be ever searching for that kind of happiness?

Some people's immediate happiness is simpler than others, I guess.

[antique_adonis]

It's difficult to some extent -- people need to be shown different things to be won over -- though I believe it can be done.

Yes, some people's are simpler than others'. And it's not a bad thing. Why should one confuse and make their life even more difficult by choosing a complex goal? I believe my goal is straightforward and achievable.

[alcoholic_frood]

Yes, I did wonder how it would be for you to have your life threatened annually. Like a very sick birthday present, I suppose.

Me, I'm pretty self-serving. I get by. If there's alcohol at hand. Which reminds me: I should propose a toast to the happiness of all of us, or something reasonable and sappy like that.

Oh no wait. I also wish that the Hitchhiker movie won't ever be released... Not because I have a problem with my representative (Mos Def is quite an actor, is he not?) but because I need to sound like Geoffrey McGivern from the radio series. Has that man got a voice!

[theboywho_lived]

Yes, it is rather trying to be in danger every bloody year, without fail.... So often near the end of the school year too, so I can usually relax up until that point. Well, maybe not exactly relax but it does seem to take whoever is out to get me most of the year to plan. Or something.

Um.. anyhow...

In regards to how some of us are portrayed - it can be quite.. wrong at times. Don't you just see the fallacies sometimes and you go: "I would never have done/ or said that!" Or indeed, spoken in such a voice - as you have pointed out. Sometimes they do get it right, and sometimes they don't.

Oh, and by the way I have read your books and seen your TV show. Sneaking them around my Aunt and Uncle as they strongly disapprove of anything that is not grounded in their sense of reality...

[alcoholic_frood]

Your Aunt and Uncle aren't very open-minded, to say the least, are they...

Personally, I find the radio version of myself the best. Do the films do justice to you and your friends? For a supposedly unpretty girl, Hermione seemed quite the charmer.

[theboywho_lived]

To say the very least... in regards to my relatives.

The films have their good and bad points. For instance I do wonder why my hair and eyes changed colour and why Hermione has such straight hair, but I guess it's the spirit of the thing that counts. The important thing is we, ourselves, know what's what.

[pipe_player]

The complete, utter, absolute lack of Hamlet.

[theboywho_lived]

I know what happened to you and your friend...

Hamlet was a right pain, wasn't he? So I do understand...

[pipe_player]

It's wonderful to see you understand. He was abominable. And confusing as well.

[permanent_blur]

especially confusing. and especially especially confusing, too. (why, i'm confused just thinking about it!)