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Is your happiness dependent on your good health and comfortable surrondings?

If you were stripped of everything, how long would it take you to be happy again. If you had nothing would you be happy. If you were gravely ill or lost some/all physical functions would you still be happy? Is your happiness a slave or completely dependent on your haves and can do? What if your happiness came from yourself, from within?

Public Comments

1. Yes, :)
2. It does come from within but it takes a lot of practice to ignore externals. Love and blessings Don
3. As hard as it may be I would try to be happy that I am still alive and be one of the few that gets to experience living in earth. No matter how bad things can get, there is always hope and good waiting to be found. I think that happiness is something that comes within a person, its one of the qualities that makes us human.
4. with nothing to be happy about, one cannot be truly happy. they might think they are happy if the pain eases some, but they are not. if you can however hold on to a single thread of hope, even the fact that you are alive, you can feel happiness. of course sometimes even life itself does not seem sucha happy thought.
5. I love my family, and know matter what, I am happy when they are there. I would be happy if I had support of my friends and family and was not left abandoned
6. happiness is dependant on chemichals in your brain if you want a more philosophical answer: happiness is dependant on your condition being better than what you percieve as average.
7. If you look at the depression statistics around the world, you can see that the highest figures of depression can be seen in the richest, most developed countries. It has nothing to do with material possessions, looking at the suicide rate in rich circles we could even assume that the richer, more equipped we are, less happy we become. Happiness is simply defined by the desire and the fulfillment of that desire. When a desire is fulfilled we sense contentment, or happiness for short while, but then the initial desire is quenched, we feel empty again, and start looking for new desires to be fulfilled. We go through different desires from the simple human desires for food, sex, shelter family, then the social desires of money, power, honor and knowledge until we realize, that none of them can fulfill us completely. So good health and comfortable surroundings can satisfy us to a certain extent, and without them we would feel bad, but they cannot give us long lasting happiness or fulfillment. For true happiness or fulfillment we need a higher level desire, and a fulfillment that cannot "kill" the desire, but there is a perpetual yearning and fulfillment cycle. This is the purpose of our life, to find this perpetual, infinite fulfillment. I hope it answers your question, all the best.
8. Just to answer the first part of your question if I lost everything (excluding people) I would be ecstatic. After you take possessions and especially money out of the picture people could truly connect without worrying about social standing or profit. I put myself into situations that put a lot of unnecessary discomfort and stress on my body ie. outdoor endurance. Why, because after something like that you are connected to the people you shared that situation with in a way that does not fade. I think Shakespeare put it best when he said "he who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother"