What makes you happy?

[Life sucks]

Happiness might be temporary thing but it makes us distracted sometimes and could be a way to cope.

I see happiness clearly as a group of brain chemicals. Thats why I think its very important for mental health and people generally. Its not the happiness mentioned in platitudes, its actually the state of mental relaxation and feeling good somehow.

If you like to do something and it makes you feel good, then don't hesitate about it. Its way better than meds or whatever many people say in their platitudes.

It shouldn't always be a big thing, sometimes small details makes one happy also.

 

[Sinai Silence]

Hugging my cat always gives me the endorphins I desperately crave.

 

[torturedbylife]

Nothing makes me happy.

 

[Worthless_nobody]

My current dog. But also my dog that passed. Looking at pictures of her makes me happy.

Hugging my cat always gives me the endorphins I desperately crave.

Awe give your cat a hug for me. I love cats I wish I had one.

 

[so tired or manic]

crocheting brings me peace. the constant counting and focusing on where the hook goes keeps me focused and I always have a movie going on in the background where when I'm crocheting is the only time I can focus on the tv so it's kind of a two for one.

 

[agentgeez]

Yesterday I fixed something of mine that broke, and that made me happy, haha. But I couldn't help but feel it wasn't really an amazing feeling. And it required me to have actually broken the thing to experience the joy of fixing it, so I had to suffer a bit first. That reminds me of another fairly recent time where I felt some happiness; it was around when lockdown was beginning and I had finally finished my coursework by blitzing most of it in a night. It felt like a weight off of my shoulders, but I realise that I had to go through the suffering of putting it off and then working on it for hours to feel that relief. I don't think I want to go around messing things up and then fixing them to feel happiness, hah. And there are certain times when I'm playing a game or looking at some kind of media where I can capture a positive feeling, so that's probably closest I've come to 'consistent happiness'. Although even that's not too consistent; you probably said it best in your opening post: it's usually small details in life (or fiction) that make me happy. I don't think it's worth experiencing the entirety of life for just the little things though, unfortunately.

 

[KleinerWolf]

Freedom makes me happy.
It opens up access to possibilities.
As opposed to being a slave doing something you don't enjoy/being someone you are not.

As for small things,
Food, shelter,
learning new languages
make me happy.

 

[Lmd]

Nothing. I have anxiety 24/7

 

[Deleted member 17949]

Food, games and science stuff. Also anime and scary stories.

 

[Time Travel]

music and anime

 

[XYZ]

Thinking about non existence.

 

[VoidGirl]

Being loved by someone makes me extremely happy but all my relationships were short lived. It's been an eternity now since I've had a partner because I'm an ugly piece of shit and it's just killing me slowly.

 

[http-410]

Nothing. I no longer know what happiness feels like.

 

[ItsOverIsntIt]

I used to like art but it feels like such a chore lately. Now I just drive around to clear my head and listen to music

 

[BerryCakes]

I like men (when there's a mutual love there) and cats.
If those two things didn't exist, I wouldn't hesitate to CTB.

 

[GrumpyFrog]

Animals make me happy. I love spending time with my cats, I like watching other people interact with their pets outside and watching animals interacting with each other, and feeding cats that I suspect aren't really homeless, I like watching animal videos on YouTube (I liked YouTube so much better back when it was all about cats and short funny videos, not advertizement and "cancelling" people).
I used to be very happy when I was writing, but I completely lost my ability to write, I haven't felt inspired or got any new ideas in years.
Music makes me happy too. I am trying not to rely on it too much though, because I used to listen to my favourite songs over and over during difficult times, and now I can't listen to them without bringing up traumatic memories.

 

[Amumu]

Valium & Whisky

 

[BitterlyAlive]

It's always nice to see my loved ones happy. My dad has been working on a project lately and I went into his workshop to ask him a question the other day. He was just painting and listening to music, but I couldn't help but watch for a minute because he just seemed so happy.