Poeticlyskuac sent me a link in the Chat.
http://coreselfconfidence.com/true-core ... s-program/
A program for being happier.
So, happiness if about being thankful and not what you have, blah blah blah.
Yes, yes... I get it. I've been through many ups and downs and have been extremely happy in situations where I was homeless, jobless, girlfriendless, sexless, living on the streets wandering about while in other situations I had a job, girlfriend, car, and my own place and was horribly unhappy. I was even fucking a girl on a regular basis.
Clearly having more doesn't make someone happy.
Though I factored in ideas close to thankfulness in the equation of happiness I never directly settled on it. And it seems to make enough sense. Freedom seemed, to me, to be what happiness was all about. A free state where you're free of the bounds placed on your mind and content where you are no matter what.
I kinda feel like it's the freedom that's truly the foundation of happiness.
That being thankful is merely a tool that leads you towards this freedom and enlightenment. That is, in day one they say it doesn't matter what you are thankful for and to write down 3 things you are thankful for. If it doesn't matter than you could be in the worst imaginable situations, stuck in a room dying of thirst looking at a water cooler that's labelled "salt water don't drink. -Sincerely Human Resources" knowing there are horrible people trying to torture and watch your sufferings. And even then there are three things you can be thankful for. If your mind is free it wont matter what your situation is, you can be happy. If you find three things to be thankful for in any situations you are building steps towards being free of whatever chains are bound to you and enjoying life.
I guess that's my take.
Here are three things I'm thankful for.
1. Having a machine in my house with Internet capacity that's hooked up to speakers with a great surround sound so I can listen to great music like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEmpN4Q4veM
on youtube.
2. Poeticlyskuac for sending me the link to the happiness thing.
3. The books I checked out from the Library today.
wouldn't hurt to try Day 2 now, would it? So long as I press on and do all the days over and over again like it says I shouldn't matter.
Day two says to think of a moment in time when you were really happy about something and that it doesn't matter what that was or why you were happy. Any moment will do as long as you were happy and you need to hold on to those moments to keep the happiness with you.
Then relive that experience and afterwards write it down.
I feel like this too is a stepping stone used to be free. Whatever that moment was you were free in that moment. Free from all the bounds on the mind and free to be happy.
And so I'm thinking. This may time time... which I feel should be noted for the purpose of monitoring results. Say, it doesn't take as much time next time to think of a moment...
Right now it is 00:14, friday 3-1-13.
it is now 21:16 and I've thought of a moment I was very very happy and I'm not reliving it in my mind.
I had just got The legend of Zelda: the wind waker.
As I played it I loved the graphics and the colorful feel of the game. The light blue ocean was relaxing to look at. Links Blue shirt when her woke up. The artistry of the character models. Also how all the sound matched. I played and pressed on and go to the forest temple and I LOVED the music. I was very soothing and set the mood. Especially with the graphic and the sound effects. It was a different world and I liked it.
everything seemed so peaceful to me. I don't know how to describe what I feel about the art, just that the colors and shapes used made me feel pretty good. And the SPAM's created. I was very happy when I first played that. I'm happy anytime I play it actually.
Day 3. Think of your future and what you want it to be like.
imagine how to be happy, what things have gone right?
What have you accomplished?
write down your future and what it will be like as you accomplish your goals.
write a desciption of what it will be like. In order to be happy you'll have to have a bright future.
Oh.... wow.
Um what I want my future to be like. I'll write this one down. I want a girlfriend who's hot with a nice set of tits, nice ass, a fit in shape body, with a great smile who's very smart and friendly and can have long conversations with me about things I'm interested in and is very caring and enjoys sex as much as I do. Also someone who likes to go and do fun things like hula hooping, riding go-karts, playing video games and just going out to do something fun. Also a kind caring person who's nice to everyone. Very artistic in nature and likes to draw and paint. With curly red hair. Who knows how to cook as well as me and likes to cook with me.
Also I want to have a dodge viper and learn how to fly a plane. and I want my own house with a special room in it with ropes, padded walls, trampolines and various other obstacles I can jump around on and bounce to and from. A room with stuff I can run around and jump about in doing whatever... Sounds like a lot of fun to me.
I have all of the nintendo systems collected and the new zelda games. A swimming pool in my backyard and I'm running a few of the businesses I've thought of.
Also I'll be more artistically expressive in the way I dress and always have something interesting on that I enjoy.
What's gone right...
I got a job at Pizzapapalis and I filled out my financial aid forms to go back to school.I found a guy online who's going to sell me a modified wii with 250+ games on it, including two Zelda games that I want to play. I worked 45 hours last week and am scheduled for 40 this week. I found a website where I can make designs to put on clothes and my hair is dyed blue.
What it will be like to accomplish my goals.
When I find a girlfriend who's not only physically what I want but mentally as well I'll be ecstatically happy. To find such a person would be amazing. We'll go out to shows and on weird adventures all the time and have long conversations about psychology and philosophy. We'll play video games together and have wild sex. She'll tell me funny jokes and I'll tell her some too and she'll show me her art work and we'll go to fun places and check out the scene. We'll go trick or treating together. It will be wonderful.
When I get a dodge viper I'll inspect the interior and then drive around nice and slow and get a feel for how the car handles. I'll love the feel of the car and find a track where I can go for a spin. I'll go faster and faster and faster and enjoy the speed. It will be amazing. I'll make a point to go out to the track for a drive every so often.
When I learn how to fly I'll go for a flight and enjoy being up in the clouds spinning around flying a plane. It will be amazing to get a pilots license and learning to fly. Just to go up into the air and move around and around sounds great.
Crafting my own clothes and making my own designs will be amazing. I'll have wonderful winter scarfs, video game themed boots and shoes, as well as gloves and shirts. I'll enjoy fully fuctional clothing with an artistic look to it. Clothes that serve a few functions and look nice and are extra comfy.
Playing every Zelda game is a pretty sweet deal it would be great to finally collect all that're out and play them while I wait for the next one to be released. I love finished a collection.
Having a house with a room to jump around in. I'm not sure how I'd feel about that... pretty amazing once I finally had it. I'd spend the whole day bouncing off walls and doing flips and such. Climbing ropes and having fun. Hanging upside down and the like.
And owning a few of the businesses I want to create. I can see me being very happy once I have that set up. Organizing the workers and putting new idea's in it. It all sounds like so much fun.
Day 4.
think about someone special in your life. How much you care about them and how they impacted your life, how much they mean to you.
in order to understand the value they hold in your life write a short letter to them. Describe how much they mean to you, how much you care, and how they impacted your life.
Dear, Aleah
I love you. You're such an amazingly kind person and that means quite a bit to me. When you're sweet and easy going and nice it means a lot. I care about you a lot. I would do anything for you and really love your company. I'm always very happy when you're around. You've impacted me and my life in a few ways. The way you're always nice to everyone made me take a look at myself and gave me hope. I wanted to be a nicer person because of it. When you smile the most sincere smile I'd seen and you listen to what others have to say I think I should smile more often and listen to others and I do. When I think of you and your kindness I want to be a better person myself and I am.
I wish all is well for you Aleah.
Day 5.
Think back to the past 7 days and think of 3 things that went incredibly well and think of why those things went so well. Then write them down with a brief description of why they were awesome....
time seems relevant here too.... it is now 1:08
same time.
1. Finding the guy on Craigslist selling the modded Wii. I was looking to buy a Wii or a Wii-U and started fishing around CL looking and then found more than what I wanted in the first place. A wii with 250+ games on it. Only $50 tacked on the price, games average around $50. 250x$50 is a lot more than $50. Sweet deal. I love it.
1:11 same time
2. finding Kingdom come in the library and the Navy seal work out book also. I was in the library looking for books about stretching, only that. And then I came across the Navy seal work out book when I'd been meaning to do a while ago [years ago] but never got around to. Then I randomly saw Kingdom come in the comics section which I had read before but was meaning to look at again. I wasn't looking for either of these things at the moment but I had wanted to check them out and they just fell into my lap. Awesome.
1:13-same
3. Yesterday I had to work Salad and I was hungry and broke. I had just ran out of money and money for food and when you work Salad you get a free meal. But that didn't cover today as I'm off and still broke. While working I had to make chicken. And when you make chicken you get to eat it when it's down and it doesn't count as your meal. I ate and got full and then made my meal and couldn't eat all of that so I had food for tomorrow[aka today] also. Today I ate the food from yesterday and I get money tomorrow to go and buy food. So that all worked out conveniently.
I guess this ends the five days.
I'll do them again tomorrow and for 5 days in a row and see how it works out.