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What are my alternative options? I'm open to suggestions.

I'm not a happy person. That doesn't mean I'm really unhappy, either. My baseline is probably well below what most people would consider average happiness, but for me it's normal. I'm content in terms of having what I need, but beyond that it's a melancholy baseline with occasional spikes and dips.

Yep. I could die happy.

Not yet. I wouldn't mind raising that average And yes, I am responsible for doing it.

I have high energy and an eccentric personality. Most people don't know how to take me. I stay positive. I have been accused of being on drugs which I loath drugs. So to answer I make my kids laugh just about every day. I think being happy is a state of mind chose to be positive and happy comes with it. No doubt that I would love to have a lady share my life. I will remain happy either way. You are responsible for your own happiness.

No, I am still recovering from total hip replacement - right hip - I am usually a patient person ( I heard it's a virtue) but I guess it does take time. Once that's outta the way I'll really be a happy camper.

I have never given another person responsibility for my happiness. There have been those who have been responsible for my unhappiness, but that is a temporary condition. I generate, and take responsibility for, my own happiness.

NO. I would be more happy if I woke up Sunday morning t find I had the winning lotto ticket. At that point I would immediately hire a professional financial planner who was experienced with this sort of thing.

Nope and yes

Thanks for asking. ?

I am generally miserable, just with distractions to keep my mind off of it

I could ask for nothing better!

As I found with other things there's always room for improvement but I'm happy enough ?

I have to be my best friend and find a way to be happy. Finding a significant other would be nice but no rush.

No

Happiness rises and falls. Contentment is the hub of the wheel of fortune.

Happy enough, but there are always mushrooms, wine and grandchildren to intensify the feeling!

Yup. I'm a happy camper.

No. I want to be happier!
I am always looking for things that make me happy. Mindfulness helps.

Yeah. I've learned through hard times what things I really need to both survive and be happy, and that's not really that much. Of those things, most of them are to be found the world around me, which I need access to, as opposed needing to possess. I'm lucky in that I have more than enough of such people, things and circumstances, and I've worked hard to learn about life and the world, make good choices and empower myself to not be too dependent on others for happiness. Without
dependency, when I DO find happiness through others, it seems freer, purer and more abundant..

No

What an incredibly bad time to ask me this particular question. No. I would not be content to live the rest of my life at my current level of happiness.

I'm forced by circumstances beyond my control to live in a country I dislike in the same house as my ex partner. Fuck no.

Oh he'll no. Not at all.

Yes. I have my health, my dog, my plants, and friends and family members whom I love. I have my depressive moments, but right now I'm good.

We're always only as happy as we allow ourselves to be

Sounds like the quantification of happiness to me. I have known many people over the years who firmly believed that when they attained their goal that they would be happy, however, any happiness that I observed in them was of brief and sometimes momentary duration.