http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433 Find your happiness. It's a phrase used for <a href="http://www.thehappyguy.com/">trite marketing campaigns</a> and deeply spiritually religious pitches alike. But what does it mean? <a href="http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/">What is happiness</a>? Or more pointedly how do you define happiness? en-us Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:19:00 EST Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:32:46 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#17 Just watch out for the Big C (Complete Happiness), mankind wasn't made to be that happy. Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:32:46 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#16 So that feeling when my skin is bright red after 10-15 minutes outside is happiness?  Damn, I thought that was sunburn... it doesn't feel like <strong>my</strong> conception of happiness, but what do I know? Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:12:01 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#15 When I was in seventh grade, I had a teacher who challenged the class to defend the idea promulgated in the Declaration Of Independence that the pursuit of happiness was a right rather than merely the description of a universal desire. I don't remember wha Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:24:02 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#14 origins: On the seventh day, God said "Let there be happiness" and there was.<br> nature: Happiness shines down from the heavens in the form of the sun. Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:07:07 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#13 Not only that, but unhappiness can be defined as the absence of happiness.  However, this does not really shed a great deal of light on the nature or origins of happiness or of unhappiness. Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:01:19 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#12 Happiness is the absence of unhappiness. Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:50:05 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#11 If you're happy, and you know it, clap your hands. Fri, 8 Jun 2007 23:30:25 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#10 Happiness, as differentiated from joy, means "satisfaction" to me. I don't mean "satisfaction" in a Rolling-Stones-I-Can't-Get-No- way. I mean being satisfied. My health is quite good, and I have a few remaining beloved family members. I have a modest home Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:33:19 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#9 Happiness is not being a Doctors toy. In not having to take any chemotherapy, nor having to take radiation treatments and finally healing from the surgery, and the infections. Happiness is having good health and knowing what it is like to have poor health. Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:09:57 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#8 Happiness, for me, is when my two year old realizes that the random seeming sounds he makes are actually intelligable words, with a purrpose. Having a special needs child 'get' something is always good. The difference between ceral and Cheerios is huge. <b Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:55:41 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#7 <i>And that includes times when I'm sad, because for whatever reason occasionally being sad is something I crave.</i> <p> When I was an angsty child, I thought happiness was another emotion like sad or anger. As I've matured, I've found that "happiness" Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:26:59 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#6 Other than brief, and fortunately quickly forgotten, moments of anger or pain, I think I'm pretty much <i>always</i> happy.  And that includes times when I'm sad, because for whatever reason occasionally being sad is something I crave.<p> What makes m Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:40:54 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#5 I dunno.. one of <a href="http://www.biggreenegg.com/">these</a> could make me pretty happy I bet. Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:36:57 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#4 The option to travel, the option to go to a hospital for healthcare, the option to drink clean water. The option to have kids and send them to the school of your choice.<p> The option to live in a nice neighborhood.<p> The more options, the more happier. Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:28:20 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#3 <ol> <li value="1">The feeling of having accomplished something (also the surge you feel as you are in the process of accomplishing things).<p> <li value="2">My wife of 33 years.  She makes me laugh and smile and never lets me feel alone in the world Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:58:11 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#2 That could be a Zen koan: why is happiness a green egg?  It has no logical answer, however, Zen is about freeing the mind from the shackles of logical reasoning (although devotees would doubtlessly tell me that my analysis is simplistic).<p> People ar Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:50:33 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/4/2002/80433#1 Happiness is certainly a tricky thing. Sometimes I just feel happy and I'm not sure why. Other times I only realise that I was happy once I am no longer. I usually find happiness in relaxation or in the satisfaction of completing a job...<p> I don't think Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:19:15 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/