Are you happy????

blastawaycas · 04-22-2009, 09:02 PM

Dodgy knees ....could'nt stop a pig in a alley
knackered back
walking stick broke
wheel broke on me wheelchair
camera has just gone "error 99"
debts piling up
can't eat
can't sleep
live next to the neighbours from hell
more doom
antelathingmybobs gone
live in Middlesbrough
AM I HAPPY

GONNA STICK A MORPHINE PATCH ON
TAKE A FEW PAINKILLERS
ASK ME IN AN HOUR !!!!

You got to laff

:lol 3:

regards Dave

Dantheman62 · 04-22-2009, 09:11 PM

no!!!!!! sorry, nothing funny to say, i'm fresh out of funny.

Swanny · 04-22-2009, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Dantheman62

no!!!!!! sorry, nothing funny to say, i'm fresh out of funny.

Miserable git

Dantheman62 · 04-22-2009, 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swanny

Miserable git

Sorry Swanny and everyone else. I don't mean to rain on your little happy parade, but it hasn't been this bad for me since 1985. Those of you not living in the US really have no idea how bad it is here!

Dantheman62 · 04-22-2009, 11:37 PM

Oh and I should say that I'm not knocking anybody here! I'm just a little pi..ssed off right now.
For example..... I just bid on a job at $10,100 dollars, the project manager talked me down to $8700 which is about a break even number for me.
What does he do?, he gives it someone that bid $5500!
Unbelieveable, the materials alone will be that much!
That's what I'm constantly up against, and I'm using pricing that I used 10 years ago!
I used to bid on projects against maybe three other companies, now I'm bidding against
14 companies.

People who have jobs here are afraid they might lose them, and anything to do with the consruction industry people are just barely keeping their heads above water, those that actually have work.

I've talked to people today on the phone in Florida, California, and Minnesota, and they're all saying the same thing. Things are terrible and getting worse.

Dantheman62 · 04-22-2009, 11:46 PM

And on a lighter note, it's springtime and everything is blooming!
I should be happy about that right?, wrong, my eyes are itching, my nose is running, and I'm sneezing every five minutes! Allergies are a bi..tch!
Phew I just can't win, LOL,LOL,LOL

Humble Janitor · 04-23-2009, 01:37 AM

Generally, I'm happy.

There are a few things that get under my skin but they're no longer significant enough to derail my thoughts and feelings.

Jnana · 04-23-2009, 01:51 AM

I find myself smiling more each day for no particular reason. I've always been the serious sort, so for me, this is weird. Not that I'm knocking it. I'm appreciating everything more lately, nature, people, job, etc. They haven't changed, my point of view has. Happy? Uhm, yeah!

unlimited mind · 04-23-2009, 08:44 PM

HAPPY! no job, no money, but very very happy!

Dantheman62 · 04-23-2009, 12:20 AM

Thanks Kathleen!! I read an article on the neti pot, I hate taking allergy drugs because they make you feel funny, not as in HaHa, but weird. So I'm willing to try anything.
Last year it was so bad I said the hell with it and went and got a shot of cortisone.
That did it, two days later I was normal and made it through the rest of the season!

rhythm · 04-23-2009, 12:59 AM

i HAD TO GET OUT OF

MY BED TO WRITE

THAT I AM

HAPPY

....

IT JUST CAME OVER ME
I GOT MY SELF BACK

Dantheman62 · 04-23-2009, 01:21 AM

I'm happier now, I just sold my pool table for $1,000 dollars! The guy is coming to get it on Saturday!

BROOK · 04-23-2009, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Dantheman62

I'm happier now, I just sold my pool table for $1,000 dollars! The guy is coming to get it on Saturday!

Anchor · 04-23-2009, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Dantheman62

Thanks Kathleen!!

Also read my thread on cold showers.

Cold showers strengthen the membranes that are mainly hassled by pollen and such. It takes a few weeks to get there but it worked for me. Very little hayfever. (I also do the neti pot about 4 times per week, or once per day if I am sneezy). Same results as Kathleen.

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Swanny · 04-23-2009, 08:33 AM

Dan you need to eat local honey

(the stuff bees make not females)

I used to get hay fever really badly when I was a boy, which was a real pain as me and my mates always played in the fields

Now I'm old I only get it the beginning of June and only if I'm in England.

As for work don't worry too much look for a new opportunity or a rich woman

piers2210 · 04-23-2009, 10:16 AM

Brilliant thread Swanny. as always.

I'm happy, but happiness isn't about how much money or material possessions you have accumulated, its about how much you have learnt in this life - because thats why we're here. If you reach the end of your life and say "is that it? Is that all?" "what did i do with my life?"... or you fear death, something went badly wrong.

Take the time to read this quote from the Dalai Lama, written on June 2, 1992. It will help you to find "happiness".

"Naturally, most of us would like to die a peaceful death, but it is also clear that we cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life".

Dantheman62 · 04-23-2009, 05:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swanny

Dan you need to eat local honey

(the stuff bees make not females)

I used to get hay fever really badly when I was a boy, which was a real pain as me and my mates always played in the fields

Now I'm old I only get it the beginning of June and only if I'm in England.

As for work don't worry too much look for a new opportunity or a rich woman

Hey Swanster, yeah I do eat local honey but so far hasn't helped. As far as a new opportunity, I'm looking everyday!

deb003 · 04-23-2009, 07:07 PM

Isn't happiness a feeling? that passes by presence and then is released?

then come anger, and passes by presence and then it's released.
The same goes for sadness, apathy, frustration, confusion, fear.

I don't know what I actually am, but I know what I feel.

I don't think I can describe in words what I am, because words cannot grasp it for me.

I can feel happy right now, but then 10 minutes later, feel very sad, but it's never a state of being, it's just a feeling going through presence.

Feelings are just that. They are not a state of being. This is where I think people get confused. We identify with the feeling and think it is who we are.

I myself will say that I feel more positive emotions lately, rather than the negative ones, but that could all change, depending on the momentum I set for myself from the thoughts I allow to have and to welcome or to hold inside my mind.

Mind wants to find something to hold on to, something to think about the future, or some recollection to think in the past. This is the mind.

Am I my mind? I don't think so.

This is just my opinion and experience. it's not right nor wrong. But my mind wants it to be right! there's the trap.

futureyes · 04-23-2009, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by deb003

Isn't happiness a feeling? that passes by presence and then is released?

then come anger, and passes by presence and then it's released.
The same goes for sadness, apathy, frustration, confusion, fear.

I don't know what I actually am, but I know what I feel.

I don't think I can describe in words what I am, because words cannot grasp it for me.

I can feel happy right now, but then 10 minutes later, feel very sad, but it's never a state of being, it's just a feeling going through presence.

Feelings are just that. They are not a state of being. This is where I think people get confused. We identify with the feeling and think it is who we are.

I myself will say that I feel more positive emotions lately, rather than the negative ones, but that could all change, depending on the momentum I set for myself from the thoughts I allow to have and to welcome or to hold inside my mind.

Mind wants to find something to hold on to, something to think about the future, or some recollection to think in the past. This is the mind.

Am I my mind? I don't think so.

This is just my opinion and experience. it's not right nor wrong. But my mind wants it to be right! there's the trap.

lovely deb003 ...

we are not mind ... we are heart ...

we're not emotions ... we are BEing ...

not good ... not bad ...

not happy ... not sad ...

not right ... and not wrong ...

we are of this moment ... only of this moment ...

and our emotion ... of this moment ...

is only experienced ... for this moment ...

it then flows off ... freely ...

but our mind ... our mind insists on capturing it ...

holding on so very tight ...

for fear ... that the emotion will never again return ...

and if it did not ... then what would that make us ...

who would we be ...

i know who we'd be ...

we'd be free ...

i am happy ... in this moment ...

sad ... in others ...

always though ...

i am fulfilled ...

futureyes · 04-22-2009, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blastawaycas

Dodgy knees ....could'nt stop a pig in a alley
knackered back
walking stick broke
wheel broke on me wheelchair
camera has just gone "error 99"
debts piling up
can't eat
can't sleep
live next to the neighbours from hell
more doom
antelathingmybobs gone
live in Middlesbrough
AM I HAPPY

GONNA STICK A MORPHINE PATCH ON
TAKE A FEW PAINKILLERS
ASK ME IN AN HOUR !!!!

You got to laff

:lol 3:

regards Dave

dave ... we could form a ... LIFE'S A BEACH BUT WE'RE HAPPY SUN BATHERS club ...

love your strength and your balance my friend ...

futureyes · 04-22-2009, 09:28 PM

ya get to a point brinty that you throw your hands up and go ... hey ... take it all ... do it in one swoop ... make it quick ... of course it's never carried out that way ...

all is well ... i'm happy ... you're happy ... i'm happy you're happy ...

life's great ... may only have water to fill the glass with but hey ... in my eyes ... the glass will always be half full ...

Blisstasista · 04-23-2009, 11:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blastawaycas

Dodgy knees ....could'nt stop a pig in a alley
knackered back
walking stick broke
wheel broke on me wheelchair
camera has just gone "error 99"
debts piling up
can't eat
can't sleep
live next to the neighbours from hell
more doom
antelathingmybobs gone
live in Middlesbrough
AM I HAPPY

GONNA STICK A MORPHINE PATCH ON
TAKE A FEW PAINKILLERS
ASK ME IN AN HOUR !!!!

You got to laff

:lol 3:

regards Dave

. . . .too funny

View Poll Results: How are you feeling??
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04-22-2009, 09:02 PM	#1
blastawaycas Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Middlesbrough United Kingdom Posts: 229	Re: Are you happy???? Dodgy knees ....could'nt stop a pig in a alley knackered back walking stick broke wheel broke on me wheelchair camera has just gone "error 99" debts piling up can't eat can't sleep live next to the neighbours from hell more doom antelathingmybobs gone live in Middlesbrough AM I HAPPY GONNA STICK A MORPHINE PATCH ON TAKE A FEW PAINKILLERS ASK ME IN AN HOUR !!!! You got to laff:lol 3: regards Dave

04-22-2009, 09:11 PM	#2
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Re: Are you happy???? no!!!!!! sorry, nothing funny to say, i'm fresh out of funny.

04-22-2009, 11:37 PM	#5
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Re: Are you happy???? Oh and I should say that I'm not knocking anybody here! I'm just a little pi..ssed off right now. For example..... I just bid on a job at $10,100 dollars, the project manager talked me down to $8700 which is about a break even number for me. What does he do?, he gives it someone that bid $5500! Unbelieveable, the materials alone will be that much! That's what I'm constantly up against, and I'm using pricing that I used 10 years ago! I used to bid on projects against maybe three other companies, now I'm bidding against 14 companies. People who have jobs here are afraid they might lose them, and anything to do with the consruction industry people are just barely keeping their heads above water, those that actually have work. I've talked to people today on the phone in Florida, California, and Minnesota, and they're all saying the same thing. Things are terrible and getting worse.

04-22-2009, 11:46 PM	#6
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Re: Are you happy???? And on a lighter note, it's springtime and everything is blooming! I should be happy about that right?, wrong, my eyes are itching, my nose is running, and I'm sneezing every five minutes! Allergies are a bi..tch! Phew I just can't win, LOL,LOL,LOL

04-23-2009, 01:37 AM	#7
Humble Janitor Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 3,201	Re: Are you happy???? Generally, I'm happy. There are a few things that get under my skin but they're no longer significant enough to derail my thoughts and feelings.

04-23-2009, 01:51 AM	#8
Jnana Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Indiana Posts: 653	Re: Are you happy???? I find myself smiling more each day for no particular reason. I've always been the serious sort, so for me, this is weird. Not that I'm knocking it. I'm appreciating everything more lately, nature, people, job, etc. They haven't changed, my point of view has. Happy? Uhm, yeah!

04-23-2009, 08:44 PM	#9
unlimited mind Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: planet earth currently Posts: 319	Re: Are you happy???? HAPPY! no job, no money, but very very happy!

04-23-2009, 12:20 AM	#10
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Re: Are you happy???? Thanks Kathleen!! I read an article on the neti pot, I hate taking allergy drugs because they make you feel funny, not as in HaHa, but weird. So I'm willing to try anything. Last year it was so bad I said the hell with it and went and got a shot of cortisone. That did it, two days later I was normal and made it through the rest of the season!

04-23-2009, 12:59 AM	#11
rhythm Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: devon england Posts: 1,905	Re: Are you happy???? *i HAD TO GET OUT OF* *MY BED TO WRITE* *THAT I AM* *HAPPY* *....* *IT JUST CAME OVER ME* *I GOT MY SELF BACK*

04-23-2009, 01:21 AM	#12
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Re: Are you happy???? I'm happier now, I just sold my pool table for $1,000 dollars! The guy is coming to get it on Saturday!

04-23-2009, 08:33 AM	#15
Swanny I dont need a label ! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Shire of Wilt Posts: 2,889	Re: Are you happy???? Dan you need to eat local honey (the stuff bees make not females) I used to get hay fever really badly when I was a boy, which was a real pain as me and my mates always played in the fields Now I'm old I only get it the beginning of June and only if I'm in England. As for work don't worry too much look for a new opportunity or a rich woman

04-23-2009, 10:16 AM	#16
piers2210 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 403	Re: Are you happy???? Brilliant thread Swanny. as always. I'm happy, but happiness isn't about how much money or material possessions you have accumulated, its about how much you have learnt in this life - because thats why we're here. If you reach the end of your life and say "is that it? Is that all?" "what did i do with my life?"... or you fear death, something went badly wrong. Take the time to read this quote from the Dalai Lama, written on June 2, 1992. It will help you to find "happiness". "Naturally, most of us would like to die a peaceful death, but it is also clear that we cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life".

04-23-2009, 07:07 PM	#18
deb003 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 297	Re: Are you happy???? Isn't happiness a feeling? that passes by presence and then is released? then come anger, and passes by presence and then it's released. The same goes for sadness, apathy, frustration, confusion, fear. I don't know what I actually am, but I know what I feel. I don't think I can describe in words what I am, because words cannot grasp it for me. I can feel happy right now, but then 10 minutes later, feel very sad, but it's never a state of being, it's just a feeling going through presence. Feelings are just that. They are not a state of being. This is where I think people get confused. We identify with the feeling and think it is who we are. I myself will say that I feel more positive emotions lately, rather than the negative ones, but that could all change, depending on the momentum I set for myself from the thoughts I allow to have and to welcome or to hold inside my mind. Mind wants to find something to hold on to, something to think about the future, or some recollection to think in the past. This is the mind. Am I my mind? I don't think so. This is just my opinion and experience. it's not right nor wrong. But my mind wants it to be right! there's the trap.

04-22-2009, 09:28 PM	#21
futureyes Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: heart central Posts: 798	Re: Are you happy???? ya get to a point brinty that you throw your hands up and go ... hey ... take it all ... do it in one swoop ... make it quick ... of course it's never carried out that way ... all is well ... i'm happy ... you're happy ... i'm happy you're happy ... life's great ... may only have water to fill the glass with but hey ... in my eyes ... the glass will always be half full ...