What makes you happy?

[AbsolutChaos]

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[QUOTE=scrivener]I'll be thirty-seven in 31 minutes, and it causes me to wonder if I'll ever be truly happy. QUOTE]

Happy birthday, and I hope it's a happy one. At this point birthdays still make me happy, but I know there will come a time where it only reminds me of how ancient I'm becoming.

[Leo Lakio]

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I know there will come a time where it only reminds me of how ancient I'm becoming.

Beats the alternative, though...

[tutusue]

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Hau`oli la hanau, Scriv... you young whippersnapper!

I 2nd...both!

Scriv, you're younger than my kids! And that you have a rewarding career says a lot.

[jdub]

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yo, scriv...happy birthday, man...

as for what makes me happy...hmmm...things that make me forget how unhappy i am...work, family and 2 kick ass bands...

[pzarquon]

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Happy birthday, Scriv, my friend. And I'd disagree on thriving on misery, by the way. Though it is a constant companion to someone with a poet's soul!

What makes me happy? My kids, my wife, my family (well, 94 percent of it). I used to think I'd never be a dad. Now I wonder how I could even feel alive were it not for my kids.

[Leo Lakio]

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I am in a great relationship, I enjoy my work, my daughter's wedding went well (and her husband is a cool guy, too), my activities and hobbies are fun, my soul is at peace with most things --- my life, overall, makes me happy.

[tutusue]

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[...]my soul is at peace with most things[...]

There I go...editing a post again! <gasp>

Wow, LL. This says it all! Way to go!

[Donna]

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Happiness is...

Having my husband home safe and sound for the holidays after being in Iraq for 1 year.

[Leo Lakio]

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Wow, LL. This says it all! Way to go!

Ah, ain't no big thing. Just the end result of ups and downs to date, a flexibility to adjust to circumstances ("path of least resistance" kinda thing), and an oddly skewed perception of the world in general. (The last one's the most important.)
Thanks for the nice comment.

[zztype]

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I used to think I'd never be a dad. Now I wonder how I could even feel alive were it not for my kids.

Hear, hear. I second that, emphatically! Nothing in the world that I have thus far discovered or experienced is greater.

[D'Alani]

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Being alive, two terrific sons, fabulous family and frirends. As Diana Krall sings..."S'wonderful"!!

[tutusue]

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[...]and an oddly skewed perception of the world in general. (The last one's the most important.)
Thanks for the nice comment.

I couldn't agree with you more on this point. I was raised by a dad with the same worldly perception as you! I got that gene! Thank God!

[jdub]

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wow, i feel deeply bereft being as old as i am without kids! thanks a lot HTers! lol!

[pzarquon]

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wow, i feel deeply bereft being as old as i am without kids! thanks a lot HTers!

Heh. I tell you what, all the things they say about kids are true -- change your life, give you purpose, most important thing in the world, love more than you love yourself, yada yada yada... but immediately after becoming a dad, I also resolved to never be one of those "evangelical parents." Because at the same time I realized I loved being a parent... I could also see quite clearly that people who never want kids also have some pretty good reasons. Whew!

Anyway. Fridays also make me happy.

[Leo Lakio]

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wow, i feel deeply bereft being as old as i am without kids! thanks a lot HTers! lol!

Nothing, but nothing wrong with not having kids...if everybody had 'em, we'd be outnumbered!

Friday also makes me happy - especially when it's a payday. And a co-worker's birthday, so we will celebrate this afternoon with a coconut cream pie from Tom Douglas' Dahlia Lounge Bakery. Which will make a whole buncha folks happy.