BS: Five Steps To Happiness

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 08:22 PM

No money does not buy happiness. Take Caroline Kennedy Schlossberger. Father was murdered when she was little. Mother died in her sixties. (My parents lived into their 80's.) Brother died young.

Sounds like the life-story of somebody in a crime-ridden slum.

Yet she had money...

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Amos
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 11:22 PM

I frequently notice happiness, right now, right here. Where else?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 11:10 PM

Where did that "g" come from? It's heard, of course

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 11:09 PM

I have often geard that money does not buy happiness.

But, I have also read that this statement was develped by the rich, as a ploy to limit competition?

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 11:03 PM

Some say we only recognize happiness long after we are away from it, not while having the experience. So, is it relative to other experiences?

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 08:40 PM

until you crash.

Excellent point, Little Hawk.

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Amergin
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 05:46 PM

If you smoke a big fat joint you'll be very happy....

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 05:20 PM

So, Mary, your link now leads to the MSNBC main page and has something about men filing sexual harassment claims, and all I can glean from your five steps is that is has something to do with paying off your mortgage and your sending thank-you cards to us.
I have to say, I'm utterly confused. Of course, this won't be the first time I've been confused by Mary Sinsull....
So, what ARE these five steps to happiness?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 04:41 PM

An excellent 5 points! I agree wholeheartedly.

And I would add a 6th point:

Be NICE to your Dachshund and let him know how much you love him!

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Janie
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 04:27 PM

Bah Humbug!

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Paul Burke
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 03:11 PM

1. Be grateful
2. Be optimistic
3. Count your blessings
4. Use your strengths
5. Commit acts of kindness

Unexceptionable. Maybe. But be selective in (1), don't be unrealistic with (2), don't be smug with (3), hope you get the chance to do (4), and remember, no good deed goes unpunished.

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 11:00 PM

I grew too impatient, waiting for the page to load. So here are my own ideas for happiness:

1. Get enough sleep.

2. Avoid debt

3. Control allergies. Allergies increase the pressure of the fluid which bathes your brain, and that makes you irritable.

4. Make music. Yodel while cleaning the kitchen.

5. When somebody makes a joke, laugh. They will love you for it.

6. Never marry someone who doesn't get your jokes.

7. If you don't have children, get a pet. Not a goldfish, a sociable pet such as a dog or cat.

8. Grow flowers.

9. Keep your car's windshield clean.

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 02:15 PM

You read that article in the Times too? Apparently, depression like fever has a purpose. It may not be in our best interests to erase it before it has done its job.


Slogging...

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Amos
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 01:35 PM

You will be much happier if you suck it up and slog ahead, m'dear...



A

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 01:23 PM

My, aren't we cranky today. Is it raining in California, Amos? You and Becca are interfering with my "Happy" program.

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Amos
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 12:43 PM

SOme of us clearly belong to the Scientific American school of thought that says Be Sad and Succeed.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Amos
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 12:39 PM

The psychologists seem to have left out a couple of important items. Like, "Be productive", "Be responsible", "Honor Your Word", and "Defend Your Own Integrity".

Sloppy work, if you ask me.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Becca72
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 12:04 PM

I would try being optimistic but I doubt it would work.

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 10:59 AM

I'm gonna put you in touch with a Prince who wrote to me. He has lotsa money to give away. All's he needs are bank details and stuff like that. Small price to pay for about 480 million dollars ($32, 361 after tax). Anyway, let me know. I may have posted the details on the Joke thread because I thought it funny at the time. Looking back, I see this opportunity as a God-send. A marriage of need and ability, of apples and dough, of salt and brisket, of water and scotch, of--forget the water, just make it scoptch and scotch, and of camels and tents. Lemme know about whatever and watch you keep your apadistra flying. Your friend,

Youknowwho.

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 10:47 AM

Why don't I just post it here. That way everyone can send money? I will be soooooo happy.

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 10:23 AM

Hey send me your bank details and PIN and I'll do it. [ honest ]

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 10:20 AM

So that's a "No" from Jacqui. sigh...

Subject: RE: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 10:19 AM

Mary - those little pills you have? You're supposed to take them every day.........

Subject: BS: Five Steps To Happiness
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 10:15 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35527612/ns/health-behavior/


So in the interest of making you all happy, I am going to give each of you an opportunity to pay off my mortgage. I wll then write you a thank note which will make me happy.
Go for it!