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Happiness is the ability to wipe one's own backside, and be happy with the result.
I was paralysed for nearly 5 months when I was young. When I recovered this was the greatest feeling in the world, one that most of us take for granted....
Quote: So far everyone's requirements for happiness seem quite modest and reasonable.
If only everyone outside this forum were so content we might have a better world! It just occurred to me that maybe self-hate and lack of self-esteem are two of the biggest obstacles to gaining happiness - or maybe just a big ego is the main problem.
I agree .... all introspection either negative, low self esteem, shyness etc or 'positive'(if i can use that word in this context) ... enlarged ego, pride in self etc never lead to happiness, it is only when you give of yourself to others, when in fact you forget self, that true happiness ensues.
Quote: Happiness is the ability to wipe one's own backside, and be happy with the result.
That is hard to respond to frankly Andy...
I'm so pleased you got better.
Quote: Happiness is the ability to wipe one's own backside, and be happy with the result.
That is hard to respond to frankly Andy...
I'm so pleased you got better.
Hard to respond to but so true. I recounted this tale at a "dinner party" where all these wammeez were spouting about their "passions". One guy's was a yacht, another guy his wine collection, one woman her handbags and it got to me and I said that this was my passion - there was a stunned silence. Sometimes we lose focus on whats important in life and health is the #1 thing we take for granted. Health is the ultimate happiness.
getting more than I expected on ebay ahahahahahahahaha 
Waking up in the morning and opening my eyes, and being able to see. I was legally blind for a month and a half last October and November. We discovered it was diabetes II, not a big deal anymore, but scarey at the time. My Mother was blind.
Oh, and seeing my old friend Garth posting in the forum again.
For me...
Being able to smile again..
I had a very bad Bells Palsy late last year that lasted until Feb this year... it's very rare to get this twice, but somehow I managed it once when I was 10 and the most recent bout.
Still not 100%, have not regained full movement and probably never will, got around 80% back (look at my profile pic closely and you can see). Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, the pain can be horrendous, the headaches unbareable, and the loss of appetite for food and life is demoralizing.
Smiling is good.
Quote: Waking up in the morning and opening my eyes, and being able to see. I was legally blind for a month and a half last October and November. We discovered it was diabetes II, not a big deal anymore, but scarey at the time. My Mother was blind.
Oh, and seeing my old friend Garth posting in the forum again.
That must have been scarey, Denny. I'm so pleased that you're o.k. now. As it happens, I was stopped by a guy in the street today and he asked me to read this note that he had because his sight was going. I felt so sorry for him - the note was quite clearly legible to me... and I was even sorrier for him when I read out that he owed the optician about £26. 
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(She lost it...)
And a lovely, lovely woman too! So sad.
Quote: (She lost it...)
what... you only just noticed ;0
I am the happiest I have ever been in my whole life.
It's certainly not money as we're the poorest we've ever been, but I have wonderful friends, I sing in the choir, I have a fabulous photography club, I LOVE with a passion my karate, I live in a wonderful place, I spend all day making things that people want to buy from me, life is so good right now.
I do think the crux is my karate though, I get such a HUGE rush of endorphins when I do it, it's like a drug, I'm totally addicted, my Sensei is wonderful, the class is fabulous, I feel fitter and more toned and better about myself, it's the best thing I have ever done.
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