How happy are you?

My job is to do surveys of all kinds (except sales). I ask you how satisfied you are with your credit card, your mortgage interest rates, wether you should vote on prop 102 which would prohibit gay marriage, i ask you how much you make, what race you are, what religion you follow, and what your political affiliations are.

I ask all these things without a second thought (sometimes a laugh), but the other day a new survey i was making calls on has a question in it that i find very strange.

On a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 means “TERRIBLE” and 5 means “EXCELLENT”,

How happy are you with life?

In the context of the survey, the barrage of previous questions renders them in a sort of quick and easy answer state, like their auto pilot is making half assed replies as they are waiting to finish the survey, so they always answer.

What would your answer be?

on a scale of 1 to 5, how happy are you with life?

Is this a way to mass collect data for your survey? (just kidding).

I’m a 3.

That’s a loaded question…

Happy to be one of the infinitesimally small numbers of human beings that will get to live on this planet? 5

Happy where I am in life in terms of achieving my goals? 3

Happy with my girlfriend? 4

Happy with my job? 2

Happy with my hobbies? 5

Happy with my pets? 4

Happy with my friends? 5

Happy with my family? 5

So I guess that averages out to a little over 4.

HA! HA! Your girlfriend got less than your friends!

I vascillate between 3 and 7. :character-spongebobdance:

4.75 - my career has prevented me from making it a 5 :neutral_face: but I won’t let that affect my happiness none too much… :smiley:

Depends on when you catch me. Somewhere between a 3 and a 5. Overall, in life, probably a 4. Maybe a 4.5. But that is assuming that an AC outlet is 120V. You know what I mean.

5

don’t know for sure, maybe somewhere between 3 and 4.

I don’t consider myself happy, I think this is a rather strong adjetive. I am currently satisfied with my existence, but I don’t know if I’ll be feeling this way tomorrow.

Come back and ask me again tomorrow, how content am I at the moment…working on it.

Happiness is over-rated. How content am I… as content as I will be once I drop the ego.

yes, happiness is really a relative issue.

I know I want to have the friends I do for the rest of my life…

Can’t say the same with certainty about my girlfriend. :slight_smile:

I know excatly what you mean. What is it about that?

Maybe it’s that friends are drawn to each other because they like each other - simple as that; whereas GF/BF are drawn together because they’re horny (with girls it’s probably more to have a baby).

6

how…?

Becuase I just accept it. Trying too hard to know everything just makes people upset.

Dood-- Kind of shabby don’t ya think :question:

Depends…what do you mean by shabby?

Being content with life is a rare sight. Most of us hold some ideal that always seems to be better than our current situation, and if we could only schieve something, everything would be great. We should have realized by now that there’s always something else that comes along, something new to desire.

I’ve asked many people that question… most people are on the fence between a 3 and 4. They’re not unhappy, never under a 3, and they’re seldom 5.

I suppose that we all feel there is something more to be had, some greater level of happiness always left to be reached if we follow the yellow brick road… When do we stop hunting for happiness? when do we finally say “aha, i am one hundred percent content and satisfied with my life”. Does it happen sometimes right before we die? or when we die? can it happen at all?

Many elderly people i know look back on their young lives and say it was the happiest they’d ever been, and they didn’t even know it. I wonder if inn another 20 years they would say the same thing about their current selves.

I say that if you are a 3, you are happy, and that alone is worth a 5. If you can live in comfort you have something to be thankful for. Many people let their lust blind them to what they already have. They struggle for more when they already have enough. They seem to enjoy gaining things just for the sake of gain.

Most people who say 4 are generally well off financially and in well mental health (yes i judge that), most people who say 5 are not financially well off and are in well mental health, and most people who say 3 are generally broken horses, though kind ones for doing a 15 minute long survey. They are not unhappy, but they bear a burden greater than others. something they complain about often.

Happiness does not lie in wait, it is now. If you’re reading this i wadger you’re doing so for your own pleasure. You’re happy.

Stress yourself about not being more happy and you’ll loose the happiness you already have.

Contentment’s the thing. Some people have a very difficult time differentiating what they need be content with, and what they only want to be content with, something that can be changed

If i wanted to be the holiest person on earth, but learned that since i have already commited a couple sins i am disqualified, why should i spend the rest of my life in discontent (unhappiness) and not just go to the next best thing?

If your desires are outlandish, change them.

And if curiosity is causing anguish, kill the cat.

good to know that your so happy. It really seems that you’re an exception here. :smiley: