One thing that makes you completely happy?

[Androlo]

The one thing that makes me completely happy are my children. Honestly, they keep me sane. I don't think I would have been able to keep it together for all these years if it wasn't for my two beautiful daughters. They are growing up so fast. My life would have been a complete and utter mess without them. Everything I do is done for them. They were the only thing I had to live for and the only hope I had when I was going through hard times. I appreciate them so much. Even now it hurts to know that we nearly lost one of them 12 years ago, it was such a horrific experience. I honestly don't know what I would do without them. I just hope and pray that they go on to live much better lives than I did.

 

[amy88]

If we are talking away from people and pets? (Because my husband & daughter and pets make me happy!)


I would say it's journaling. I love being able to write, and just be open with how I feel, and vent...and journaling helps me do that. Listening to music, too.

 

[aimeepoo]

Staring at the stars makes me completely happy and even seems to calm me. I love looking for shooting stars. I always stand outside and look at the meteor showers even if it is freezing cold or scorching hot. This makes me feel peaceful.

 

[BreeBrock6]

I think the one thing that makes me happiest is laying in bed with my two cats, watching Netflix. I know it sounds pretty normal, but just laying in my big soft bed wrapped up in a giant comforter with my kitties purring in contentment really makes me feel at peace within myself. Netflix also can be mindless, which is something that someone like me, whose thoughts start to race and whirl in circles and patterns, desperately needs from time to time. My cats' purring is a calming sound, and my cat Sneakers is extremely small, so she usually curls up on one of my legs and the vibration from her purring can almost put me to sleep it's so comforting.

 

[kgord]

I will agree with lying in bed with the cat watching Netflix too. I also really like chatting online, when it it is with a funny group of people. It can really be entertaining. I also love riding in the car on a trip, especially when the weather is perfect, and I can enjoy the sun on my body. Swimming,,,and being with family in my old family home can also be awesome too. It can be really relaxing. Hanging out with my kitty probably relaxes me the most though.

 

[judyd1]

I will try just about anything to help my anxiety and worry disappear--if even for just a little while. Except drugs. I've never used drugs to make me less anxious. I guess the side effects make me worry about what might happen if I take too much. But music and movies are one of my favorite forms of escapism, next to books. But books are like movies for the imagination, and sometimes I don't want the book to end because it means I have to "come back" to the real world, where things are so uncertain.

 

[hades_leae]

I never watched that movie either, but I feel the same in regards to movies. The perfect way for me to be in a relaxed state is to go to the movie theater alone. I'm in a completely different world when I'm there. I love the atmosphere, and I like to be immersed in the movie which happens all the time for me. I turn off my phone and deal with that as soon as I leave the theater. It's my getaway.

 

[StillStanding]

Knowing I'm alive. Just the thought that as bad as I feel sometimes I'm happy to be alive, experiencing the world in all it's glory and misery.

 

[sidney]

The only time I felt REALLY happy was caused by 1 person, since it was love related. I have never felt that happy again towards another person so far, so I would say that being in love and "getting noticed" at the least by that special person was the one thing that made me completely happy...


As for the more general answer, laughing makes me completely happy, but having a lot of money (that's yet to manifest) would also be enough to make me completely happy.

 

[Poppy]

Painting makes me really happy. I have synesthesia, so I put on classical music and paint away. I find a certain peace in mindlessly putting colors and shapes on paper and mixing pigments to get the perfect hue and shade. An additional bonus is that my family is always amazed at what I paint. They think I always spend a ton of time planning out the composition and colors, but it just happens automatically for me. I also like matching the music to the month and my mood. Even if I'm extremely angry, I always end up happy and peaceful.


Reading fantasy books also makes me very happy. The physical adventures the characters go through in a completely different world than this one contrasts to my life, which brings me great joy.

 

[Sue]

My family. No matter how bad my day is going I always feel better if I get to spend time with my family. That isn't always the case though because they are busy with their own lives so we don't get to spend as much time together as I would like to. They just have a way of making me feel happy and relaxed. I am so proud of them and the young adults they have become. I don't know what I would ever do without them. They are what keep me going even on the darkest of days.

 

[Sunflower_Michele54]

One thing that makes me happy is doing things I love with my loved ones. By loved ones, I mean my family, my fiance, and my friends. They are awesome people, and they support me as much as they can. I love watching movies, going to events, going shopping, going out to eat, and more. For me, just having a wonderful day and feeling great makes me happy. I just feel grateful for the little things in life.

 

[Casm1ra]

Since I struggle with shyness and social anxiety, it makes me really happy when I interact with someone and it's natural (i.e. not awkward). Despite being socially awkward, I love people, it's just hard for me to find the right ones to relate to. So whenever I feel comfortable around someone and we build a connection without any thinking or extra effort involved, it really warms my heart. I'd give anything to be surrounded by a community of people who understand me as I understand them while speaking my soul language, for lack of a better term.

 

[bangtanboys]

When I am talking to my Twitter mutuals or when I am watching anything that involves my BTS boys, I am totally immersed. For a moment, I'm able to forget about my relationship problems, or my anxiety about my studies and my future. Music's another one that has that influence over me. These days whenever I'm stressed I've been listening to Busker Busker's "It's Hard to Face You" and it's helped some.

 

[Corzhens]

We are a childless couple and past middle age so the dream of having children is not even a dream anymore. What gets my attention now are our dogs. We had our first dog in 1996 and I had no idea that I would be hooked into dogs. Jedi was a mixed breed that grew to be a beautiful dog maybe because we doted on her and treated her as family. She stays inside the house and although she was ferocious, we didn't assign her as a guard dog but simply a pet in the home. At present, we have 3 dogs and they cheer me up especially when I come home from work, stressed out and tired. Just hearing the short barks of our our dogs seemed to rejuvenates me. What more when I get to sit and cuddle Barbie, she is the only female and they youngest at 4 years old.


And to stretch a bit further, we sometimes bring along our dogs when we go on vacation as long as the accommodation would allow pets in their place. Last year we were in a beach resort and then in a mountain resort where our dogs also enjoyed roaming freely but under the supervision of a caretaker. Yeah, we have 2 housemaids whose primary duty is to take care of the dogs. It is obvious that my dogs are my stress relievers and no need to say that they make my day every day.

 

[mauricioq]

Listening to music. Especially listening to a new album by an artist that I like. I really enjoy music, it always makes me feel better about anything so listening to new music is such a great pleasure to me. When it happens I just stop everything I'm doing and I'll go take a relaxed listen.

 

[kelden]

Silence and reading a book really makes me completely happy. Nothing than relaxing in your favorite couch with very few noises but only the wind and some cars passing by.

 

[NormaD]

This topic may be a little strange but I figured I'd make the post anyways.
I can honestly say that getting absorbed by a movie is one of the most relaxing feelings in the world. Turn the lights off, no phone no nothing. I'm sure everyone has their one little thing that no matter what is going on in their lives, that one thing will put them at ease and make them forget for however long how bad things are. Well for me personally a really good movie does it for me. It could be a comedy, an action, a romance, or a mix. For example, last night I watched Meet Joe Black for the first time and for 3 hours I didn't think one bit about my problems or my anxiety. I was immersed and completely drawn into the story and it's characters. It was wonderful.


So I'm curious to know, despite everyone's anxiety what one thing makes you feel the same way I feel about movies?

I write. When I sit down at my laptop and start to write time seems to slow down for me. Everything else stops. Nothing else is important to me when I get into that state of 'flow' and it seems like my satisfaction speeds up. I get started and next thing I know, it's five hours later and it feels like I just sat down.

 

[Androlo]

Painting makes me really happy. I have synesthesia, so I put on classical music and paint away. I find a certain peace in mindlessly putting colors and shapes on paper and mixing pigments to get the perfect hue and shade. An additional bonus is that my family is always amazed at what I paint. They think I always spend a ton of time planning out the composition and colors, but it just happens automatically for me. I also like matching the music to the month and my mood. Even if I'm extremely angry, I always end up happy and peaceful.
Reading fantasy books also makes me very happy. The physical adventures the characters go through in a completely different world than this one contrasts to my life, which brings me great joy.

Synesthesia is an awesome topic, I love it. Believe it or not, everyone actually has synesthesia to some extent whether they know it or not. It's a natural form of association or anchoring and is how the mind works. Many people will put certain colours to specific days of the week or will form a memory when listening to a song. Whenever they hear that song in the future, it then reminds them of that memory. Alternatively, this is also how triggers are formed but the same methods, principles and techniques can also be used to undo those triggers.

 

[Houille]

My collection of toys and dolls! I collect ball jointed dolls, and with them, I have this very extensive universe which I write about. It's the one thing that calms me down - hiding away in that other world. Dressing my dolls and arranging my collection of toys and figures is another thing that brings me absolute joy. There's something nice about having your favorite characters in tangible form.


Another thing that calms me down like nothing else is music. Whenever I pop on my favorite song, I basically feel like nothing matters and nothing is real except me and the song I'm listening to haha. I probably have very deepseated issues with escapism, but hey, it helps me a lot.