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How can you find happiness in an unhappy world?

If there was a depressed world with no happiness, would you ever be able to find happiness again?..

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i think that question may be hard to answer until you have experienced that kind of situation. maybe after a while you either get used to it and become numb or you stirve to change what is and excel. personally, i would find happiness anywhere.
If you were on a world where EVERYONE was depressed you would be perfectly fine. If everyone is depressed then as far as everyone is concerned everything is fine. You would not know what being happy was so you wouldnt think anything of it.
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Happiness is a subjective thing. The only way to achieve happiness is to know what you're looking for. As long as you know that there is always going to be happiness.
Your statement renders it impossible-- If there was a depressed world with no happiness.... If there was such a world with no happiness then happiness could not exist.. Life can only exist -- the very moment it begins-- thus in a world without life--life cannot exist..when life begins to exist..that world no longer exist... thus your world of no happiness would cease to exist-when the first smile or laugh happened.
Read history. The world has always been in turmoil. Personal happiness is on the individual. Get some couselling.
By staying positive and focusing on poitive thoughts, replacing negative thoughts with positive ones, believing in God and the power of prayer! People do this everyday now, as the world is becoming very depressing with all the bad things we hear on the news etc. But there is always something positive,actually a lot we can focus on instead. We have to or we would probablly all go crazy, if we only focused on all the awful stuff. There is always something good, as long as you have God in your life.
In fact, we have both sides of the world, that is, an unhappy world and a happy one. Moreover, such unhappiness or happiness is relative to something within or outside us. We simply can't change everything so that we can be happy; we can change something within our means or ability. Most of all, true happiness comes from within, that is, from the mind. In other words, whenever we control/meditate the mind to be happy, we will definitely be happy. Therefore, we can find some happiness in an unhappy world.
I'd challenge you're assumption. Happiness doesn't come from the world, in comes from inside each one of us. If you mean that no one else was happy or were incapable of being happy, then it would be an obstacle or at least a distraction for my happiness. But I can be content, happy, blissful and even ecstatic without any influence from the outside. It is easier to achieve with others, as we are social animals, but it happiness happens all the time with or without being able to share it. Peace
By helping the others to be happy.
If u r happy then nobody can stop your happiness either it is happy world or unhappy world...so...just alwayz try 2 b happy..
In my opinion, happiness is a feeling that you experience. It comes from how you perceive and judge the things around you. It is up to yourself to see things in an optimistic way. It depends on whether you are willing to change the way you think. For example: When you wake up in the morning, you can be thankful and experience happiness when you think positive (Imagine some people who died in their sleep and never wake up!), or you can choose to wake up feeling dreadful and complaining when you didnt wake up on time and being late for appointments. In this world, there are 10 people that we will face in our lives. no matter how good you are, there will always be 3 idiots who will hate you and make u depress at all cost! Another 3 person will choose to sit on the fence and don't care about you at all. The next 3 person will love and care for you no matter how bad you are. The last tenth person who makes the difference... is YOU, youself, that makes happiness a reality! I believe no matter how bad the situation is, one will be able to find happiness when one looks on the optimistic way of life. You are the deciding factor that determines and control the elements of happiness in your depressed world of unhappiness! Tomorrow will be a better day. Cheers(,") just_mi
you might go to a happy place!
I believe so. As we continue to love others unconditionally, we potentially can help transform others toward happiness, and peace of mind. And as a result of doing this, we'll find purpose and Happiness. "Please Patiently read below." Thank You, & have a great week. **What in the world is the difference between loving a person, and being attached to them? Love is the sincere wish, for others to be happy for others and free from suffering. Having realistically realized other’s kindness, as well as their faults, Love is Always focused on the other person’s welfare. We have no ulterior intensions or motives to fulfill our own self-interests; or to fulfill our own desires, we love others, all people, simply because they exist. Attachment, on the other hand, exaggerates others’ good qualities, and makes us crave to be with them. When we’re with them, we are happy, but when we’re separated from them, we’re miserable. Attachments are always linked with expectations of what others should be, or what they should do for us. Is love, as it is understood in most societies, really love OR attachment ? Let us examine this a little more. Generally speaking, we are attracted {drawn to) people because they have qualities we value, or because they help us in some way. If we carefully observe, through introspection, our own thought processes we’ll notice that we very often look for specific qualities in others. Some of these qualities we are drawn to are qualities within our parents, or qualities which society values. We examine someone’s looks, education, social status, financial status, and so forth. This is how Most of us decide on whether or not the person holds any true value, or not. In addition, we judge people as worthwhile according to how they relate to us. If they praise us, encourage us, help us, if they listen to what we have to say, if they make us feel secure, if they take care of us when were sick, unhappy or depressed, we consider them good, or sometimes righteous people, and these are the people we more drawn to, whom we are most likely attracted to, and the people we choose to be around with. In all honesty, this is very biased, for we are judging them, only in terms of how they relate to us, as if we are the most important person in the world & thinking the world revolves around us! After we’ve judged certain people to be good for us, whenever we see them, it appears to us as if goodness is radiating out from within them, but as we are more mindfully aware, we realize that we have projected this goodness on to them. Desiring to be the people who make us feel good, we become emotional yo-yo’s, when we’re with these people, we’re up, but when we’re not with them, we’re down. Furthermore, we form fixed concepts of what our relationships with these people will be, and thus have expectations of them. “When they do not live up to our expectations of them, we’re unhappy, disappointed or may even become angry. We want them to change so that they will match what we think they are. But our projections and expectations come from our own minds, not from other people. Our problems arise not because others aren’t who we thought they were, but because we mistakenly thought they were something they were not. We often use a type of Checklist also. Checklist: “I Love You IF ___________ !” This Love is Conditional and what we call love, is most often attachment. It is actually an attitude which overestimates the qualities of another person. ’Then we cling tightly to that person, thinking our peace and happiness depends on that person. We even often blame that person for our unhappiness.’ Love, on the other hand, is a very patient, calm, optimistic and relaxed attitude. We want others to be free from suffering and to be happy simply because they exist. While attachments are uncontrolled, and too emotionally sentimental, Love is Patient, powerful, and controlled(disciplined). Attachment obscures our judgment {our ability to make sound, wise decisions), and we become impatient, angry, and impartial – helping our dear ones, and those who do us no harm. Love clarifies our mind, & we access a situation by thinking of the greatest good for everyone. Attachment is based on selfishness, while love is founded on valuing, & cherishing others, even those who do not look very appealing to us. Love always looks beyond all the superficial appearances and dwells on the fact that they are just like us: they want peace of mind, happiness, and wish to avoid suffering. If we see unattractive, or unintelligent people we most often feel repulsed, because our selfish minds want to find attractive, intelligent, and talented people. On the other hand, Love never evaluates others by theses superficial standards and looks much deeper into the person. Love recognizes that regardless of the others appearances, they’re experiences are they same as ours: they want inner mental peace, happiness, and wish to be from suffering. When we’re attached, we’re not mentally, emotionally, & spiritually free. For we overly depend on, and cling to another person, to fulfill our emotional, mental, and spiritual needs. We fear losing the person, fearing that we’d be incomplete without them.” This does Not mean that we should suppress all our emotional needs, or become aloof, and totally independent, for that too would not solve the problem. We must simply realize our unrealistic needs and slowly, gently and patiently – seek to eliminate them. If we try to suppress them, pretending they do not exist, we become insecure, anxious, or possibly depressed. In this case, we do our best to fulfill our needs, while simultaneously working gradually to subdue them. The core problem is that most of us seek to be loved, rather than to love. We yearn to be understood by others, rather than to understand them. Our sense of emotional insecurities comes from the selfish obscuring of our own minds. We develop confidence by recognizing our inner potential to become a Selfless human being, having many magnificent qualities, then we’ll develop and have an accurate perception of ourselves, gaining self-confidence. We’ll seek to increase true unconditional love, to increase compassion, to cultivate patience, as well as generosity, right concentration and wisdom. Under the influence of attachment, we’re bound by our unstable emotional reactions to others. When they’re nice to us, we’re happy, but when they ignore us or speak sharply to us, we take it personally, and are unhappy. But pacifying attachment doesn’t mean we become hard-hearted, rather without attachments, there will be space in our hearts and minds for genuine affection and impartial love for them. And as a result, we’ll be more actively involved with them. As we learn to transform our minds & lives, through subduing our attachments, we can definitely have successful friendships, and personal relationships with others. These relationships will be richer, more meaningful because of the freedom and respect the relationships are based on. We’ll really care about the happiness and misery of all human beings equally, simply because everyone is the same inside: we all want inner peace of mind, Happiness, and to be from suffering. However, of course, our lifestyles and interests may be a bit more compatible with some people. Our friendships and our personal relationships will be based on mutual interests, and to help other people. Having such an attitude, we’ll be much More Patient, & tolerant toward others; will remain mentally calm, having Peace of Mind AND Happiness, and Will communicate successfully with others in life.**