I get angry when my sister gets things that I don’t. And for some reason all I want is fame, money lots of it, fortune and attention from my parents, that would make me happy? Am I a cruel selfish person, really?
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I don’t think i have ever been truly happy not with someone or with friends or family. There seems to always be something missing that kills my whole mood. I’m getting tired of faking my happiness i know for a fact i am not depressed but i just really need to be happy and overjoyed . Any ideas.
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I mean, if you were a millionaire, would you be truly happy? A billionaire? Just had thousands? Or is money not equal to happiness?
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Would you agree that unless one is happy with themselves first and really enjoy life and being single, they can not be happy with a significant other? What are your thoughts?
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I am on a quest trying to learn what it means to enjoy life and be happy. I find it difficult to do so, with all the stresses and realities of real life. Does anyone know how a person can go about starting to try to enjoy life and truly be happy?
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. But even if we get what we desire our ego won’t let us rest instead of enjoying what we acquire we run after another dream. Since, our dream is based on impermanent thinks we could never be satisfied. All of us seek to be happy, but the think that believe will bring us happiness actually causes as suffering and pain. We try holding our money, our job, and our woman tight but in the end we it is futile all things come in the end.
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Can you be mentaly happy with life and hurt others? For example, celebreties achieve money and fame, however, they still manage to get themselves in jail. Where they satisfied with their achievements? Or, was something missing, thus, their harmful actions?
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A very good friend of mine is constantly keeping his emotions inside. He lets them build and build and eventually he shuts people out of his life. I don’t think he’s a happy and he’s kidding himself when he says he is.
What are consequences of suppressing your emotions- physical, emotional, social? And can a person who suppresses emotions ever truly be happy?
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I can believe that I’m happy all I want, but in the end I always know I’m not. How can I make myself stop having to lie to myself and instead truly be happy, and not lonely?
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I have tried to get involved with others in a relationship but literally don’t have a passion or even care for it. Sex, is sex in my opinion. But to be completely happy do you really need to be a relationship? Is it really something you need to be truly happy? To me it seems to much like a pain in the ****, and to many feelings, and just putting yourself at risk of getting hurt, etc.. I can go on, but I think you should get the idea by now.
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