Purpose of Life - Seeking Long Term Happiness

[DonGorgon]

An absolute waste of virtual space.

Obviously you have none of the above. No life, money or poonanner.

But I would bet the bank that you have problems galore.

Nah i have:

degree
job
401K and IRA
german car
no kids
a 19 year old HB8
a 20 year old HB8
a 22 year old HB7
(so you would loose that bet)

AND A FIRM GRASP OF REALITY AND THE STRENGTH TO ACCEPT IT...

CAPITALISM IS YOUR NEW GOD, resistance is futile..

 

[Kerpal]

This is precisely why it's critical to live in your own moment. I live my life as if it's the last 5 minutes I'll have. This makes all longterm bullsh!t reduce to nothing.

Don't plan on anything after the next 5 minutes. Work your life on your own schedule and don't commit to anything or anyone you don't absolutely plan on following through with in the next 5 minutes.

This will clarify what is and what is not important.

Unless you're a billionaire, how is this possible?

 

[I.A.F.Y.B.]

Hell, I make a post about having a life outside of women. But, nobodys listen to my post.

 

[antidonjuan]

I don't know who bumped this and how my thread became off topic.

I was thinking last few days, no matter how successful you are in life, now matter how many girls you slept with, no matter how rich you are, you are gonna die at the end.

You can be Martin Luther King, JF Kennedy, Bill Gates but you are GONNA DIE AT THE END. You cannot bring money to your graveyard and this is scaring the hell out of me.

I wanna live my life to its fullest and I dunno what I want from life yet. It seems like I feel happy just for short while getting some girls to flirt around with me, masturbate for a while, or get 100% on my test whatever it maybe. I am not happy in the long run right now.

I wanna control my mindset and try to never get angry but the more I want to control my mind, the more angry emotions come out of me.

I made several notes to myself what I want to do in my life and I thought: wait a minute, even if I achieve my long term goal, would I be happier than masturbating?

I am seriously confused at this stage, I dunno the hell I want to be happy

 

[connor32]

try alot of new things. find out what you enjoy doing. do these things.

 

[OldGoat]

If high self esteem is equivalent to happiness and low self esteem is equavlent to unhappiness so is it possible to be sick mentally or physically and yet be happy? As the Gospel of Saint John: "Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice!" John 13:17

 

[SinJester]

Hapiness is an emotion. It cannot be held continuously. How can you know happy if you don't know sad? Also happiness cannot be found by chasing it.

This 'meaning if life' crap is similar. If you search for meaning all your life, you will miss out on life itself. It's a question you can't answer.

I don't mean to make fun but has anyone seriously ever brought up masterbating like that when talking about hapiness other than antidonjuan?

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

Here's a secret - there's no such thing as contentment. Being content implies that life is static, it's not, and to be honest, how boring would that be anyway? Life consists of varying states of discontentment: why else would you bother doing anything? But the good news is that it's more fun and more beneficial to manage discontentment than to endure contentment (which you can't anyway since it's transitory at best).

The trick is to understand that there are 2 kinds of discontent - creative and destructive discontent. What you choose to do with that discontent makes all the difference in the world. You will only get what you've gotten if you keep doing what you've done. Don't allow yourself to fall back into old destructive habits of dealing with discontent. Don't bother with anti-depressants and self-help books when a good hard workout at the gym would serve you better.

The truth is I'm always discontent, but creatively so. The minute you can look yourself in the mirror and be happy with what you see you're sunk. You can always improve, even after achieving things that were very important and difficult to attain. Happiness is a state of being, it's in the 'doing' not the 'having done.'

 

[Jokerlsk]

LOL ADJ was banned. Was it for his 10 threads a day thing?

 

[Çharismo]

Bump!!!!

Bump!!!!!:rockon:

 

[JohnyTheArrow]

Sense of of life is to experience and enjoy the experience.It can be from taking drugs to ****ing girls to spending money ... whatever.

I was always amused by people who believe their children are center of the world and meaning of life.They are not.Your child is different person, who may not even give a **** about you.Everybody must live his OWN life and for a woman or child.