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I’m happy. But I guess I can only speak for myself. How can we work to solve this problem?

That is really sad.
It makes me sad that others are sad :(
…lol
I am happy now :D
It comes and goes :P

People have to find their own happiness I think.

Very true.

I am so friggen happy today:D

Happiness helps other people too. Good point Qzzzz.

I got married yesterday to the man I love! I’m friggin’ ecstatic! :D

we’re happy!!!

Woohoo Sidani!! That is awesome!! :P

SMILING

Smiling is infectious,
you catch it like the flu.
When someone smiled at me today
I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner,
and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realized,
I’d passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile,
then I realized its worth.
A single smile just like mine,
could travel round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin,
don’t leave it undetected.
Let’s start an epidemic quick,
and get the world infected!

There are happy people out there, you just have to know where to look!
:]

People don’t talk about being happy.. because they’re too busy enjoying being happy.. we only complaing about being un-happy.. because what else can they do?

I’m happy, or at the very least, content. This board isn’t the place to look if you are looking for examples of happy people though, because people come here with their problems.

One person can have great influence.

(an example of fhr21’s “smiling is infectious”)
I once changed the mood of a whole hospital emergency room. Before, people were swearing, saying negative things about the health care system, staff were stressed and everyone was disatisfied, or waiting awkwardly in immense pain. By talking to people, I distracted them from their pain, altered their perspective, changed their environment, role modelled altruism. The result: people were still afflicted and waiting for treatment, but there were smiles on their faces. Staff were smiling and were no longer stressed, the person who was swearing earlier was smiling, people who were in pain were smiling, and everyone was helping and connecting with everyone else.

My point: everyone can do this. Every time you post on help.com, you are not only influencing one person, you are influencing their friends, their families, people in their society, and opening the minds of other people contributing to help them as well. No matter how dire the situation, what you say, what you do, can have a huge influence on the outcome of the situation, as well as a huge influence on part of the world.

Unfortunately, happiness is not a substance which one can collect, give, or share. It is a perspective on life. There are a number of times where I have wished that it was a substance so that I could give mine to someone who lacked it despite my efforts to help them, but the non-substantive quality is helpful in allowing the spontaneous generation of happiness.
There are a lot of unhappy people, but in my opinion that is because they are chasing after something that they shouldn’t be chasing after. Most haven’t learned to be content without things, which is a hard, but invaluable lesson. As for happy people being obliged to spread it, I do my best to, but would not require it of anyone else. As long as someone is happy, and does nothing malicious, they are probably part of the solution. Lastly, it is a misconception that only happy people can spread happiness. I am not spreading happiness because I am happy, but I am happy because I am spreading happiness. While my current situation isn’t too bad anymore, at least externally, that is because I had very little to lose left, and my recent period of disaster is more than enough reason to make me unhappy. In fact, for quite a while, I was unable to experience any emotion, since I had just had such extremes of it. In any case, my point is that I was not a happy person who came here to spread my happiness. I was a broken person who came here to help other broken people, and it is because of that, and my own choice to be content with my life, that I am now happy.