Are we really "meant" to be happy?

I DON'T THINK WE ARE MEANT TO BE ANYTHING.WE MAKE OUR OWN HAPPINESS OR SADDNESS.WE CHOSE TO CHANGE OR NOT TO CHANGE TO BE HAPPY OR SAD.WE CHOSE TO REPEAT THE SAME MISTAKES OVER AND OVER AGIAN.OR TO LEARN FROM THEM.

For me, happiness comes in the little things. I suppose I found a way to be happy when I learned that regardless of what is happening outside me, I can control how I react to it. When happiness is internal, it can't be taken away. How we react to our mistakes, suffering (and we will suffer, regardless of internal happiness--it's part of life), and joys reflects our character. We are only meant to be happy if it's something we choose and as creatures of free will, it's a choice we have to make.

It's the only best way to live. Without happiness, what dread is life! Whether we're meant to or not, if we spend too much time thinking and worrying about it, it's likely we won't be happy. Happiness is like the flow you get when you play a musical instrument, dance, or do performing arts. If you criticize, analyze, and continually monitor your moves, it's hard to get the flow, a high when you get into what you're doing.

I believe we are not meant to be happy as the same way we are not meant to be obese, anorexic, gay, psychopathic, drunk or even depressed. But even if we are not meant to be these things some people are still like this anyway and the same applies to happiness. So basically none of us have to be what we are meant to be but what can still be we want to be and the key to happiness is by wanting to be happy. So the only thing stopping you from being happy is yourself.

A Human being is very complexed, your own thoughts and emotion, affect your feeling that you consider ,your own definition and understanding of what you consider as happiness.

If you are a very social conscious person , you set your own limits to what happiness is, in a world so full of injustice, suffering and unhappiness. You find it hard to consider the good things in your life as happiness, when so many others suffer.

Good Luck in finding the Happiness in your life.

interesting...you have sure gotten me thinking! no, i don't think we are "meant" to be happy because the idea of "happiness" is something humans alone have created. a dog or cat or fish or tree may do what it needs to survive, but does not strive to be "happy".

i think we are meant to learn, if anything, because we are capable of it.

"happy" is an emotion like any other. it comes and it goes. we feel it, but cannot feel it forever. life is in constant flux, thus so are we and so are our emotions. there is no final place that we reach when we can then, and only then be truly happy. so no, i do not think we were "meant" to be happy....

The Buddhists believe that life is suffering. However, I believe that you choose if you want to be happy or not (such as looking on the positive side of things) But I do agree with you as well. The bad times in our life only help us to appreciate and enjoy the good times.

Happiness is a transitory emotion. Just like all emotions, it comes and goes. It is not a constant state.

Contentment is a state that can be maintained. It's not easy but it is attainable.

maybe so maybe not. we don't know. to be honest religion is like the imaginary friend you've always wanted and depend on for hope. no offense taken i hope. happiness comes from your own achievments. human kind happy? probably not. you happy as in individual? you have to find that in yourself. sounds really stupid huh? but thats just how we have to do things. we can't depend on other people to make us think we're happy.

We are meant to be happy and living happy with each other. But because humans have free will, they can make their decisions to choose between good and bad, when they decide to do the bad then unhappiness come