Are You Happy?
Are You Happy?
The happiest I’ve been in a long time. I’m working on a great product on a great team at my dream company. I picked up iOS development in 2010 and have never looked back, I feel fortunate that I tied my horse to such a stable and lucrative wagon. I’m living in Manhattan, playing piano every day, and attending weddings as I watch my lifelong friends get married. My stress is nonexistent and my health is better than ever; it’s amazing what 8h and healthy food will do.
I’ll propose to my girlfriend in the next year or so and I’ll move back home to Ontario. We’ll buy a little house in the country with a sunny office for me and we’ll fill our home with children and chickens and goats.
There are times I feel I took the easy route, opting for IC at big tech over leadership in the startup world, but laying it all out like this makes the choice seem easy. These days I feel very blessed.
Not at the moment. Had some tough times at work with the announcement that the entire department was going to be laid off sometime in May, and finding a new role is kinda stressful about now. Meanwhile most of the hobbies and things that usually keep me happy have been on a downward slide, so it feels like everything is falling apart at the same time.
It is probably interesting to think about though, since on the surface it probably seems like everything's going well at the moment; materially speaking I have more of what I want than ever and my life seems like it's good on a surface level. But that's all a bit of a rapidly crumbling facade.
I'm not happy, but I'm also not especially upset or dissatisfied either.
I've been in the same motions for six+ years and while things at times are annoying/upsetting/whatever, I feel so completely tired that I embrace the dullness
I think this is called depression, shrugs all around
Me, the poor kid that can now pay his bills, lost sight of what's important. It wasn't work.
Reframe the question. Are you living your life in a way that allows for meaningful opportunities to experience joy and happiness when the moment presents itself? If you aren’t, and you seek opportunities to experience happiness, figure out where you have leverage and course correct your trajectory towards such an outcome.
Right now, no. Largish startup failed after 5+ years. Put everything into it stupidly and now have limited personal runway, kids & mortgage. Looking for work but cant even get past the filters for a junior product manager role. Investors & friends make intros but not much hiring. Add to that remote, rural and non EU/US based so having to consider uprooting the family and moving home (diff continent), which would really effect the kids.
.. Then finally this morning my trusty old macbook died :(
Ordinarily a very positive person but feel down for making stupid life choices, entirely my own doing. Kids & building apps for fun pull me out of the funk each evening thankfully.
I know lots of people far worse off - sorry just needed to vent.
Yes, regardless of what your read online we live in the safest, most prosperous for the most amount of people time in the existence of our species. There is no better time to be alive than today.
Yes.
I walked with my son a few days ago and had coffee.
Yesterday I went for a walk with my daughter and had lunch. In the evening I had dinner with a friend.
Tonight I will walk to the ice-cream parlour with my wife.
Happiness is found in the simple things.
No, and I believe most people who spend time posting online are not happy. Beware reading internet content as most of the people sharing their thoughts are fundamentally depressed.
Nothing in this world makes me happy anymore. I try to be positive but I see things I love crumble to the ground every day it seems.
Yes!
I try to have a bias towards action.
1. Actively organize events for friends and family.
2. Go out and explore new cities, places, museums.
3. Always make sure that you have an activity coming up in the next few weeks that you are really looking forward to. If you don't have such an activity in the moment, schedule one.
Yes.
Happiness is a matter of choice more than anything.
No matter how bad your situation is - your life is a bonus given to you from your state of eternal nothing.
Nothing can be less happy than eternal nothing that you came from. Almost by definition. Really think about it.
So enjoy whatever movie you’ve been dealt. Because even it will end some day.
No. Unemployed, single, depressed.
With job and women life was so simple.
Therapy and antidepressants does not help.
I recommend looking for being content, or at peace. Happiness is fleeting.
Yes for the most part.
I burned out hard last year, and quit my job without a plan. I am so much happier without all the stress of work.
Eventually I’ll have to go back to work, but I’ll blow up that bridge when I get to it.
Yes, 50s are a great age!
Yes, or at least, as happy as I can be given the current state of the world lol
Happiness is doing more and expecting less.
I feel neither happy or unhappy.