Quote Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore View Post
What is "being happy"? Does it even repay thought? One mostly just is, moment by moment, ups and downs. Though there may be particular things one hates (one's job of course cough cough - obviously) and more diffuse things sometimes, and one may have some overarching darkness. But if one is not clinically depressed at the moment or something (obviously deeply unhappy), how would one even know if one was "happy"? Moods come and go, right? One might hate one's job though
There's a lot of truth to that. I find that I can't hunt happiness down, but am surprised at how often it has ambushed me. On the other hand, I can pretty much grab a handful of misery whenever I look for it.

I don't know exactly how you attract happiness. Gratitude maybe. Trying to create it for others and hoping to catch some of the backwash. Reasonable expectations. Offloaded baggage. Keeping busy, even if it isn't exactly what you think you were meant to do. Maybe simply accepting that life is hard and finite and contingent, and there's no use being a wimp about it.

I'm just saying.