Happiness is a:

Goulet

cup of coffee
mellow eye
yawning cat
warm gun
soft sweater
cold lover's ass
sharp pencil
clear aisle
blank rain
grey day
shivering snow
burnt photograph
lover's lament
broken heart
bare breast
welcome mat
cloud in th eshape of your dead uncle who always gave you his two cents on life and love and death and hate and everything inbetween but now he's gone and somewhere that you can't explain or begin to think about because your mind is so fucked up because of a girl that smiles and talks to you and makes you feel like flirting and writing a hundred songs in one hour even if only half of them are good.


add some, you people that i don't know...

CranMalReign

Happiness is pop culture comforts.

~~~

Functional Depression (Reject)
September 30, 2002

But depression is the chic disorder du jour
I think they sweeten Coca Cola with Celexa
to keep us dependent on commercials
for happiness when we're alone

TheAnti-Santa

Happiness is not a fish that you can catch!!

Goulet

Originally posted by CranMalReign
Happiness is pop culture comforts.

~~~

Functional Depression (Reject)
September 30, 2002

But depression is the chic disorder du jour
I think they sweeten Coca Cola with Celexa
to keep us dependent on commercials
for happiness when we're alone

i disagree with this
people aren't happy when they go along with everythign and consume consume consume and wear all the right things and say al the write htings they are just doing what they think they should...it's not happiness and i'm not sure what it is...

and its sad that people think that depression is "cool" and "in" and i agree that it probably is, but if people actually had it they wouldn't want it...it is a bane and the worst and best feeling in the world...

CranMalReign

Originally posted by Goulet
i disagree with this
people aren't happy when they go along with everythign and consume consume consume and wear all the right things and say al the write htings they are just doing what they think they should...it's not happiness and i'm not sure what it is...

and its sad that people think that depression is "cool" and "in" and i agree that it probably is, but if people actually had it they wouldn't want it...it is a bane and the worst and best feeling in the world...

Take the majority of people living in Western Civilization and drop them in Kenya. How happy are they? We've become dependent on these things for our happiness. Some is culture shock. Some is the loss of the identities we've created for ourselves. We don't know what to do with ourselves if not downing fast food and channel surfing, generally speaking.

Goulet

Originally posted by CranMalReign
Take the majority of people living in Western Civilization and drop them in Kenya. How happy are they? We've become dependent on these things for our happiness. Some is culture shock. Some is the loss of the identities we've created for ourselves. We don't know what to do with ourselves if not downing fast food and channel surfing, generally speaking.

of course...
but take the majority of people living in Kenya that haven't been Westernized and drop them in teh middle of Western culture and you have much teh same affect...they would be without things that they feel they need...
i used to get all worked up over all this commercialization and industrialization and economic imperialism stuff but really as much as it would be a good thing to pull back teh reigns a little or even a lot it really couldn't be done because too much of teh world's population is part of this consum-consume culture now...this is the world we live in and maybe its a sad scary place but also maybe you just have to live oyur life the way that you want to and if that means buying some things and not others or buying everythign or buying nothing then so be it, but you can't change people's minds about things because most people won't listen to you...its kind of depressing but you just have to put your ideas out there and hope people listen because if you try to change their ways you're really no better then them trying to change your ways...and now i have to stop this because i'm starting to make no sense...

CranMalReign

Originally posted by Goulet
of course...
but take the majority of people living in Kenya that haven't been Westernized and drop them in teh middle of Western culture and you have much teh same affect...they would be without things that they feel they need...
i used to get all worked up over all this commercialization and industrialization and economic imperialism stuff but really as much as it would be a good thing to pull back teh reigns a little or even a lot it really couldn't be done because too much of teh world's population is part of this consum-consume culture now...this is the world we live in and maybe its a sad scary place but also maybe you just have to live oyur life the way that you want to and if that means buying some things and not others or buying everythign or buying nothing then so be it, but you can't change people's minds about things because most people won't listen to you...its kind of depressing but you just have to put your ideas out there and hope people listen because if you try to change their ways you're really no better then them trying to change your ways...and now i have to stop this because i'm starting to make no sense...

Nah, you make perfect sense. And I think you're 100% right. And I also still think, in light of all you said, that happiness is pop culture comforts. At least for us fine westerners.

Goulet

Originally posted by CranMalReign
Nah, you make perfect sense. And I think you're 100% right. And I also still think, in light of all you said, that happiness is pop culture comforts. At least for us fine westerners.

i know for a fact that i am not 100% right,
but at least you don't disagree
so i don't have to kill you

yes, happiness is what makes you comfortable and safe

CranMalReign

Originally posted by Goulet
i know for a fact that i am not 100% right,
but at least you don't disagree
so i don't have to kill you

yes, happiness is what makes you comfortable and safe

You are 100% right. Except for that part where you say you're not 100% right... but it still rounds to 100%.

Don't challenge me, boy. You mess with the bull, you get the horns!

Goulet

Originally posted by CranMalReign
You are 100% right. Except for that part where you say you're not 100% right... but it still rounds to 100%.

Don't challenge me, boy. You mess with the bull, you get the horns!

you're right i am bigger the Jesus

CranMalReign

Originally posted by Goulet
you're right i am bigger the Jesus

You and the Beatles.

Felicity

waking in a warm bed
that first sip of fresh strong coffee
bundling in a cozy robe after a fragrant bath
candlelight evening
soft skin and clean hair
re-reading snappy language with glee
looking at old photos, time captured on paper with colors and shapes to remind, i always find that odd
a simple card from loved ones
aching muscles because it proves my body exists
knowing people aren't really that stupid, even thought the government thinks we are
having sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing
being able to walk, move, talk

happiness is being alive at this point on the wheel of life

nothing else really matters

even flow?

A smoking, warm gun with a leader of a country lying in the crimson blood.

Radar(Baba)O'Riley

Finding a new Star Wars toy on the shelf when you think you have them all and knocking over little 8 year olds to get to it because you're taller.

Approximately 1:45 am Thursday, May 16, 2002, when you saw Yoda whip out that lightsaber for the first time.

Approximately 10:50 pm Thursday, June 12, 2003, when Eddie gets to the "woooh-uh-huh...yeah-uh-huh...mmm-ow-uh-huh...yeah, uh-huh...YEAH-YEAH-YEAH-YEAH" part of Alive and you find yourself outside yourself doing things you wouldn't normally do like sloshing and slushing and gushing in the rain and mud of Verison Wireless Amphitheatre and swinging from the branches of a nearby tree and noticing that wet branches make more rain and people think you're drunk but you've never had a drink in your life and you don't sprain anything jumping around that much.

Knowing that at Midnight on June 13, 2003, you can start watching all ten Friday the 13th movies because that's your tradition.

Writing something that someone will read.

bambi girl

very interesting and good post.

happiness is being in the company of those you love,
being able to sing and dance around like a loon until you collapse with exhaustion,
a good laugh,
and a well needed cry,
fresh bed covers, and pillows,
a warm hug, a long kiss, a smile
having long discussions with people like me, and like most of you.

coleen

happiness

is found in the the quiet moments

that don't make a vulgar display for attention

happiness is

a soft damp kiss on the neck

a contented sigh

cafe au lait skin

pommegranates

the scent of jasmine and lavendar hovering under the ancient oak canopy over the city square in savannah

the sound of a heartfelt laugh

old friends that just met

imagining a billowing cape and a brilliant codpiece

the smell of warm cinammon

the taste of a lover

a dream built together

the flutter of eyelashes on naked skin

puddle jumping

eyes so blue as the glaciers in alaska

stillness of a snowfall

a secret sacred place

believing in foolish things

making love to the moon

sleeping soundly

the fire of autumn

any shade of the color purple

comfort during the silences



love, love, and ever so much more love

Goulet

happiness is passing someone on the street,
at some point in your life,
that you have shared a lot with,
but don't know at all

coleen

happiness is the odd chance at discovering
an interconnectedness you hadn't even the imagination
to consider as possible
and the comfort of knowing you aren't so alone anymore
or that maybe all along you never really were

Radar(Baba)O'Riley

puppy kisses.

Sound

happyness is something that happens when you stop thinking about it

Goulet

yes happiness is a sexual experience