Happiness

[ssrrkk]

Quote from atticus:


All problems are the result of laziness, and consequently, all success is the result of effort.

I think on average it's 50% luck, 50% effort.

If you are born in a lower income household, your average income will be lower -- but the spread in that income is the result of free will and effort but also random chance.

If your parents are college educated, your average education level will also be college level, and again your average income will be higher, but there is always that spread.

If you are born tall, fair skinned, blue-eyed, in a wealthy family with a rich family history in a wealthy part of Europe or the US, the chances that you will end up wealthy is much much higher. But again, there is that spread. Even with all those advantages some of these people could end up homeless.

Luck and free will: it's a 50/50 contribution, I think.

 

[wave]

"I had the blues because I had no shoes,
Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet."

"Two men looked out from the prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw the stars."

"One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be ..."

 

[ElectricSavant]

I saw the movie "Marly & Me" last night.

A movie about the life of a couple and a dog....It's all there.

Happiness comes and goes...It just a change in me, something in my liberty.

ES

Happiness
More or less
It's just a change in me
Something in my liberty
Oh, my, my
Happiness
Coming and going
I watch you look at me
Watch my fever growing
I know just where I am

But how many corners do I have to turn?
How many times do I have to learn
All the love I have is in my mind?

Well, I'm a lucky man
With fire in my hands

Happiness
Something in my own place
I'm standing naked
Smiling, I feel no disgrace
With who I am

Happiness
Coming and going
I watch you look at me
Watch my fever growing
I know just who I am

But how many corners do I have to turn?
How many times do I have to learn
All the love I have is in my mind?

I hope you understand
I hope you understand

Gotta love that'll never die

Happiness
More or less
It's just a change in me
Something in my liberty
Happiness
Coming and going
I watch you look at me
Watch my fever growing
I know
Oh, my, my
Oh, my, my
Oh, my, my
Oh, my, my

Gotta love that'll never die
Gotta love that'll never die
No, no
I'm a lucky man

It's just a change in me
Something in my liberty
It's just a change in me
Something in my liberty
It's just a change in me
Something in my liberty
Oh, my, my
Oh, my, my
It's just a change in me
Something in my liberty
Oh, my, my
Oh, my, my

 

[oldtime]

define happiness
there is a difference in my book between happiness and joy
things make you happy
but more things do not make you more happy
you can only be so happy
joy is endless
there is no limit to joy

 

[tradewiz50]

 

[hkrahra]

Quote from oldtime:


there is no limit to joy

yes there is.your brain cells.everything is limited on Earth.

 

[hkrahra]

Hotei, god of happiness in East Asian folklore

there is no happiness on Earth,we are deceived from the very birth.what we think is happiness is illusion.think how many time you thought the happiness was there,but it wasn`t.

 

[ElectricSavant]

Now thats one happy dude!

Quote from tradewiz50:

 

[ElCubano]

Quote from atticus:

Everyone is born healthy, barring some congenital condition or malnutrition in utero. It takes very little effort to remain healthy through your 20s and 30s. The trick is to increase strenuous activity as you age as well as constantly improve your diet and add supplements that decline in production (in vivo) as we age. Motivation to stay on the plan (critical) and discretionary spending to acquire the supplements. The activity alone will allow you to maintain excellent bone density. Don't smoke and don't drink(heavily).




All problems are the result of laziness, and consequently, all success is the result of effort.

Must be nice to be born into a situation that allows you to accomplish the above task.

 

[atticus]

Quote from ElCubano:

Must be nice to be born into a situation that allows you to accomplish the above task.

Born into?

I see seniors all the time who are disabled and continue to smoke. Paula "Turducken" Deen has type2 diabetes. She blames in "in part" on her high fat diet, when of course it's far more likely due to genetics and her intake of simple carbs (VLDL).

$100/month buys one sufficient supplements to maintain health. $250/month to smoke a pack a day, or $100 in preventative med.