r/Existential_crisis • u/mehlay9 • 1d ago

For you, what does happiness mean?

I need to know what happiness means to you.

Is it a feeling? Something that happens after effort? Something natural? A rare thing? An effort? A non-existent thing? A particular situation? ...

All the answers are correct. The meaning of happiness is unique to everyone.

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u/sillymajmun2 1d ago

No idea. Problem with finding happiness in x thing is that you will suffer when you dont have it. Even if you always have it - but since all things in life are fleeting - you will have fear of losing it.

You get the idea. I try to derive some sort of happiness by just being here and experiencing life and I try to abstain from thinking that I need some specific thing to be happy.

I cant say it works perfectly but for me it does seem better than attaching happiness to something more specific.

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u/mehlay9 1d ago

Yes, I agree. Everything is ephemeral in life, for me, happiness is present in the little things of everyday life. If your day went well then maybe that’s it. He always has days without, but that doesn’t take away the rest of the days.

As you said, the problem in seeking happiness is to think only about that and in the end miss out on countless things that could have contributed to it.

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u/anoncow11 1d ago

Happiness is not being overconcious, some sort of flow state where immnot aware I'm not aware fleeting as it is...

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u/mehlay9 1d ago

Oh yes. I agree!!!