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| Links: (websites I enjoy, nothing really to do with the monthly topics) http://www.howstuffworks.com/ This is an interesting website where you can have fun educating yourself�good website too if you have absolutely nothing to do but want to learn something useful. http://www.bahiker.com/ Excellent website about where to hike around the San Francisco Bay Area. Great description of trails and plenty of pictures. http://www.terragalleria.com This is an excellent website which has beautiful pictures of different places in the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Good website to news events in different parts of the world. |
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| WHY THIS WEBSITE EXISTS: To share and stimulate thought and insight on life issues we can relate to. |
| Quotes: Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -- Storm Jameson Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. -- John B. Sheerin The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -- Allan K. Chalmers Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great. -- Willa Cather The purpose of quotes on this website is to provoke thought and may or may not be an endorsement of the person being quoted and his or her beliefs. |
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| Question of the month: What is the main factor in what makes you happy? a) personal disposition, i.e., personality and perspective as opposed to external factors b) level of material possessions, including money c) number and depth of personal relationships d) how well circumstances and situations work out in life e) the ability and freedom to do as you desire, not held back by limitations, e.g. health or lack of time f) religious or philosophical belief system g) experiencing new things, e.g., travelling or trying different restaurants h) no main factor - combination of the above i) other main factor(s) |
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| You know you're not a happy person when: 1) You can't remember the last time you woke up from a nice dream. 2) Something negative comes to mind when you're asked at the Thanksgiving table what you are most thankful for. 3) People have told you on more than one occasion to smile. 4) You get easily upset at people who are different than you, especially those with a bubbly personality. 5) Your idea of exercising is picking up the remote that fell off the couch. 6) You have a hard time thinking and caring about the problems and issues of others. 7) You drown yourself in some addictive habit, or head toward that direction. 8) You either try too hard to be with people or to withdraw from people. 9) You never smile. 10) You see the glass as not just half-empty, but completely empty...and dirty. |
| LSC's BASEMENT: Here is another personal quote of mine, which I call a "likseeism": One of the hardest things to do is to love; one of the easiest things to do is to notice if you are loved or unloved. ANTI-PET PEEVES: For a growing list of things I really like, click here. ARCHIVES: for website topics from previous months, click here. General Note: just to let you know, I update this website with a new topic around the beginning of each month. |
| Hey, I hope you are doing well this month, as we inch closer to the holiday season. For November, the topic is asking the question, what makes you happy? Lik-See, 11-11-04 I'm led to believe that this is one of the biggest questions in life, considering how much our desire and pursuit to be happy drives and permeates what we do in our lives, and with our lives. Remember your childhood when your life seem to be centered around having as much fun as much as possible? It seemed life back then was about playing at the jungle gym and watching cartoons and going to McDonald's on Saturday's (with school sandwiched in there somewhere), basically trying to experience as much fun as possible. I wonder if we're still like the kid we once were - in our desire to have 'fun' and be happy - but just older and with more responsibilities & negative experiences built up over the years. Some reflection questions in addition to this month's main question: *Maybe the question of what makes us happy should be preceded or followed by the deeper question: why do we believe and live as if specific things will make us happy? What understanding or experiences shape that belief? *How many times in your life did you realize that your idea of happiness did not really make you happy? Ex: you thought that being popular in high school would make you happy, but when you became popular, you realized you weren't happy, just miserable that you became a slave to peer pressure. *Are there certain things that everyone can share in common in what brings happiness? *Do you tend to think of what makes you happy in terms of experiencing that happiness with others? Or do you see being happy as a more private, one-person experience? *How is the desire to be happy related with living a worthy and worthwhile life? See my website topic for January. |
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| Fun: child's word for how to be happy |