Have you spent your life mostly sad? or mostly happy?
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while dealing with people, sad.
alone, happy.
Hard to say; it keeps switching back and forth. And no; I don’t think that’s “just life.”
Mostly sad… Haven’t found true love as yet…
I attempt to be happy and for the most it works out OK. Like most people I have had my sad times, but overall I would say happy
I’m bipolar and tend toward being depressed more than being manic, so I’d have to say I’ve spent most of my life being sad. I use a lot of techniques to combat that. I meditate, take medication, exercise, and talk a lot at therapy.
Happy, I don’t feel happy all the time but I always think things can be a lot worse.
I have tried to be “happy” through my 33yrs, I have been fulfilled, is that complete happiness? Not really. Most of my unhappiness has been a struggle a with my outward image I’m never satisfied with how I look or what I’ve accomplished.
Let’s use some SCIENCE! to figure this out.
I’ll list the years of my life, and whether I recall being mostly happy, or mostly sad during them. Then, I will tally up the results to quantify whether I have lived my life as mostly happy or mostly sad. For the sake of this test, I’ll exclude silly emotions like “nostalgic,” “blank,” “ambivalent,” and “angsty.” Years in which I was not cognizant of my own existence will be listed as happy, by default.
0–1 Happy
1–2 Happy
2–3 Happy
3–4 Sad
4–5 Happy
5–6 Happy
6–7 Happy
7–8 Sad
8–9 Happy
9–10 Happy
10–11 Sad
11–12 Sad
12–13 Sad
13–14 Sad
14–15 Happy
15–16 Happy
16–17 Sad
17–18 Sad
18–19 Sad
19–20 Happy
20–21 Happy
Results: 12 Happy, 9 Sad
Discarding years 0–3 for being my early developmental years nets a result of:
9 Happy, 9 Sad
In which case, I’d say I have spent my life in a perfect state of Yin and Yang (warning: not a scientifically accurate term) as equally happy and sad.
I am and always have been happy. I know how to have fun no matter what.
Up to about 3–4 years ago, mostly sad to the point of severe, debilitating chronic depression. The last 3–4 years have been mostly happy.
I would choose “content.”
I think I am pretty happy so far! =D
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Sad. The happy moments, though, have been incredible.
Happy, life is a beautiful thing, including all the ups and downs.
sad. It’s not that I don’t know how lucky I am, I do honestly. I have a wonderful husband who loves me, and I love him, in the words of the Bard, “with so much of myself that none is left”. I have a little puppy and cutest ever budgie who fill my day with smiles, I have a job, which I love, but which is getting ever more difficult to do because of health problems. In the grand scheme of things, I should be very happy, but most of my life, certainly since before my teens even, I have always had this cloud thats hung over me. It is a sadness, a gloom, a heaviness that permeates every single minute of every single day. My meds help a little but it is a conscious effort to prevent it from overcoming me on bad days. On good days I can almost push it back to a point where I can just about block it out. So I count my blessings, and hope every day for a bit more strength to cope. Someday, maybe, I won’t have to work so hard to beat it.
<hugs @partyparty very tightly>
you are such a lovely person honey xx
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