I see people laughing and having fun, and I get jealous. I have to fake it. I feel sad most of the time. Sometimes, I feel great, and I love life, but it usually just lasts for a little while, and then I’m back in reality, where I feel that nothing in my life has meaning. I feel so alone. Am I?
Is the average person happy most of the time?
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Personally, I think they’re neutral. Have some good moments, some bad moments in the day. They may live in nicer places than you, places and jobs and lives you’d long for. But, it’s normal to them. It’s not special to them. But due to hopefully less critical stress like poverty, addiction, etc, it’s not peaceful enough I bet. So maybe a baseline happy, but not as blissful as in a tv show
I’m pretty happy most of the time. I think it’s about perspective and comparing yourself to someone else is absolutely not the way to do it. Like right now, the oven is heating up for dinner, the windows are all open and the breeze is amazing. I can smell that a neighbor is definitely grilling something and it smells wonderful. My husband is in the next room over and he has pulled out our ancient DVD/VHS player and is trying to hook it up because he wants to watch a movie that he has on DVD and it’s not available for streaming. I can hear him mutter to himself. LOL Our dog is supervising – aka sitting on the manual that he won’t consult anyway.
It’s just a happy and sweet little moment. It’s stuff like this that makes me happy.
At a very technical level, if you step out of society culture and just appreciate we are essentially a bag of chemicals around a feeding tube…..The average person is not technically happy at all times from a brain perspective. We have evolved that way. Dopamine is the main drug that controls this. Why? Because quite obviously if you are content all of the time you wouldn’t pursue food and reproduction which is overall bad for the continuation of life. Obviously I’m highly highly simplifying it but to answer your question….
…no.
Most of the time I don’t care, if I’m happy or not.
Might be, because I’m not average. 🤷
I’m pretty damn happy. I have unhappiness about a couple of things outside of my control . Just remember that being happy all the time is completely unrealistic. I think maybe we should focus on the lesson of things and the meaning of things to help us get through the unhappy times.
But like what do you think happiness … what’s boring to one person can be happiness to another
Honestly probably not
No, rarely happy. Normally, I would say that I go through a range of other emotions. It varies. Now and then happy. More often I’m content with a positive feeling of relief or calm, and I try to do good. I’ve learned to appreciate the ordinary, after negative events and illness. But bubbly, smiling happiness – no.
Sometimes life crush you before being old enough, and so it can be very hard to thrive but if you do, happiness taste like candy 🥰
My brother’s best friend died shortly after a stomach ache of some sort a couple years ago. He was 41. My “happiness” has been in much better prospective ever since. Just happy to be here another day, that’s enough.
I feel good most of the time
But not happy
I’m not depressed at all but I’m just good most of the time cause nothing bothers much anymore nothing is worth your energy when you can’t control it yourself
I still don’t find a clear future for us but is also part of how society is been declining in recent years
Comparison is the thief of joy. Just be happy with life man.
38, nope. Mild satisfaction in some things.
I will say yes, but not all of the time. Also, there’s a difference is broadly happy (content) and elated. I do think the average person is generally happy most of the time.