Not well-rested or not dreading work, I mean genuinely happy.
Most mornings I wake up feeling like I’ve respawned after taking fall damage.
Is this just adulthood?
How often do you wake up actually happy?
How often do you actually wake up happy?
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Every morning that I wake up and see my significant other sleeping with her head on my chest.
Its my favorite part of the morning
Everyday. People fucking hate it. Lol.
Never lol, gym is the only healthy thing that numbs that feeling
by living a healthy life…
In my experience people greatly misunderstand happiness. We just aren’t built to be happy all the time, in fact being happy is more like whipped cream on a cake of life satisfaction (which is more of a “yeah things are fine” kinda feeling). Expecting to be happy all the time or a lot strikes me as a surefire way to end up miserable because the faulty expecation leads to a constant feeling of doing something wrong.
So to answer your question: Rarely. I make sure I wake up well rested and that alone is a great feeling to me. I have no expectation of experiencing the rush of happiness in my daily life. But I end up being happy quite often despite that… or maybe exactly because of that.
If I don’t have insomnia, heachache, not sick, then every morning might be happy morning. Especially with bonus of morning wood 👍
I can’t remember the last time I woke up happy. I was bullied pretty bad in school, got a job at 16 and have been working ever since, now 30. I’m not on a bad salary, could be better, but it doesn’t fulfill me. Not a lot fulfils me I don’t think.
I do things I enjoy, like go to concerts, write music, travel places, but I never wake up excited for anything or in a great mood. Maybe it’s just normal? I’m not really happy with living in the UK, it’s miserable but the grass isn’t exactly greener on the other side, not to mention how hard it is to even get visas/job sponsorships abroad. So I’m just kind of stuck here in a loop, with small events scattered throughout the year to look forward to for brief moments.
I don’t.
Happy is a stretch. But some mornings I wake up content.
Usually when I wake up and I have something fun to look forward to that day like seeing my friends and/or boyfriend, going to an amusement park, etc
Honestly, often. When I open my eyes it really brings me joy because I made it to see another day. & if my mood isn’t right I pray for it to get better. I plan my days .. intentionally .& when it’s harder to be happy I accept that it’s just a day that’s not as good as yesterday
way I see it is if I’m not unhappy then I’m happy, so every day right now
I actually remember the last time I woke up happy. It was in college in about 2010. So yea, pretty rare and powerful.
Never.
Fix ur deep sleep 1st
I feel this question needs some context.
Happiness isn’t easy to define, especially when compared to contentment.
For example, I wake up content most mornings, things are ok..
Waking up full of Happiness is reserved for special days. If I woke up happy every morning, soon happiness would lose its value and would become contentment.
On a related note, I know a lot of people who complain about their lot in life, and always have someone or something to blame for this.
Ultimately, for your lot in life, the buck stops with you. You are responsible for how much effort you’re willing to put into making the life you want. Setbacks are guaranteed, what you do about that is on you.
Once every couple months
Not many times
I have a 2 year old and so a good night of sleep really actually does make me feel happy. And it always has. I know I’ll be able to attentive to what comes my way, have a full (possibly productive) day, and maybe sneak in some Civ 7 and whiskey when everyone goes to bed. Manifest the destiny you want.
I mean, I’m miserable because I almost never get enough sleep, but aside from being dead I’d still say I’m generally happy
We lose the bloom of youth and the stuff moke joys.. waking up becomes a act. My mum used to say I used to be the most cheerful kid, “ her ray of sunshine” .. whilst I’m not unhappy at the thoughts of waking, I feel much more inclined to pleasure in my life tucking into that first flat white of the day
yes and I think it helps to try to make yourself at home in the places you frequent and find the good reasons to visit them, if there’s none you need to make a change…..
random side note, the first thing on my mind now is “should I go to the gym today?” and…. like, bruh I only go at 8pm….
There is a crazy amount of good that comes from that place if you make yourself at home.
Happy? I’m not skipping down the street or tap dancing on the roof. If my house is warm when it’s cold or cool when its hot. There’s food in the fridge and every now and then there’s a half naked woman on the bed with me. I’m all good.
I don’t really think about it right when I wake up.
Let me share something that I’ve learned throughout life. Constant self-assessment isn’t helpful. Let’s say you set a timer to randomly go off 12 times a day and at those points, you asked yourself, “In this moment, what is your emotional state?” The answer to that question generally isn’t going to be Happy. So, this can lead you to the conclusion that you aren’t a Happy person.
Happy is an elevated state. If you were happy all the time or every morning, it would just be your baseline and wouldn’t even register as Happy.
To live is to want and to want is to suffer. Unfulfilled desire and being generally discontent is the natural state of humans. It’s why we seek novelty and have ambition. But it’s also why we do drugs and have anxiety. We constantly want some unrealized future that we have yet to achieve. This is the root of suffering. The denial of the present state and the denial of impermanence.
Every day. I’m divorced and unattached.
Best feeling ever right now is waking up and deciding I can do whatever I want.
I also think it helps to wake up to your first alarm of the day, not your last out of x amount