what's the key to YOUR happiness?

Being loved apparently...

and being able to love and care for others..

being honest

Having someone love me for all that i am and all that i am not. In the good moments and the picking up the pieces moments, trusting me with their heart and knowing i wont break it. Loving me in the same way i love them.....


With that.....all else is nothing....it can all go.

Without that....the focus shifts.

Fuck me i turned in to a hippy.....

Putting my life in the hands of God.
(and seeing my kids smile, of course)

mdiver said:

It's the hippy tattoo...

How is it healing by the way?

thanks for your answers guys... keep 'em coming

shanti0608 said:

Nearly there 90% done.....looks good

to be appreciated and loved.

mdiver said:

as Anx once said, quoting Woody Allen...your statement, was very pithy. It had alot of pith to it.

total honesty and respect. respect above anything else tho.

purplerein said:

Pith off

This is tough.

I'm torn between jacking off puppies or killing people I meet on the internet.

I don't know if this is primarily an American thing, but it really gets on my ass when all I hear around me is “I need to FIND MYSELF” and “I need to find happiness”, as if these are two things that can possibly be located like car keys or measured like height and length. I’ve got a good friend, whom for years has talked about traveling the world with a backpack in order to “find” himself. I know exactly where he “is”, and it would sound less cheesy if he just said, “I’m sick of the West. I want to find some perspective” or something of that nature.

I am most definitely not talking about you Natisse, as your question is valid and interesting. I went completely off-topic, I think.

INSATIABLE said:

no, actually, you're more on-topic than you realise I think and I appreciate your honesty

Is there such thing as happiness?
That's what I wonder?

shanti0608 said:

apparently it's out there...somewhere...

Natisse said:

I hope so

Natisse said:

I just think I'm wasting my own time when I wonder things like this. I waste most of my daydreaming and what-ifs on darker and more disturbing concepts. You can be happy right now if you want to be. Who cares about the future or the past?

mdiver said:

heh heh heh

INSATIABLE said:

well, see, I think the future and the past MAKE you who you are in the present

I used to think that my happiness was to be found in another. Another made me realise that the happiness was within me all the time he just showed me the way. I have been very lucky to have found it.

ellieadore said:

indeed you have, sweetie

Natisse said:

Really? How catastrophic this mindset can be, though, especially if you're unsatisfied with the past. It could hold you back, even.

And the future? Well, hopes can leave one delusional after a certain point; and fear of the unknown can be even more damaging.

I'm sorry, sweetheart. I'm on some weird medication right now.

mdiver said:

sounds about right to me!!

I try to pay attention and take joy in little things as well as big things. . . value painful things as well as happy. . .

humor.

INSATIABLE said:

this is part of why I love insatiable.

Natisse said:

There are quite a number of things that have the power to unlock the happiness within me.

Porn being at the very top of the list, of course.

Illustrator said:

have i ever told you that i love your sense of humor?? seriously, we should talk on yahoo sometime.