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What would make you happier?

I Sperg

When I wuz a nipper aged about 5 my dad asked me which of three things would I choose if I could only have two.

Out of Health, Wealth or Happiness, I "chose"  health and wealth only for him to suggest that without happiness what woudl be teh point of having the other two?

That kind fatherly lesson and correction to my thinking has helped me enormously in focussing upon what is, and is not, really important. 

Let's not kid ourselevs boys and girls we OBVIOUSLY want lashings of all three, but in the real reality, resources & qualities are scattered about unevenly, life is essentially UNFAIR, some of us are born into the wrong bodies (or even species!) but theoretically "Happiness" is an unlimited resource that merely needs to be accessed!

MANY of us it seems are unhappier than the majority and carrying the co-morbities that result from being really unhappy too in many cases. 

NOW before you all start getting political, (I know what you 'spergs are like, I is one myself!) this is more about thinking and sharing what would make YOU happier personally. 

If anyone wants to know why I am asking this, (some of you have found me untrustworthy I believe) I'm happy to explain, but for now I'm asking the question what would make you happier?  

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  • I would like to say happiness but I know that’s just an emotional response and it’s not something that’s constant. I know it’s not on the list but I would choose to be calm for the rest of my days. I believe that would help a lot towards health and probably throw a bit of happiness my way as well. 

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  • I would like to say happiness but I know that’s just an emotional response and it’s not something that’s constant. I know it’s not on the list but I would choose to be calm for the rest of my days. I believe that would help a lot towards health and probably throw a bit of happiness my way as well. 

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  • in reply to Take5

    People to actually listen to me instead of asking what I'd like or want or need then telling me what they think it means. To not to have to keep repeating myself to some lackwit with defective hearing and understanding, for people to actually read case notes, otherwise whats the point of having them?

    Less technology, it hasn't made things easier, it's made things more difficult as when it dosen't work nobody knows what to do, I spent ages stood in a queue at the pharmacy earlier listening to people complaining that they've not recieve thier meds, the pharmacy hasn't recieved the prescriptions and nobody knows what to do. I'm so glad that my surgery dosen't insist on this stupid method for ordering repeat prescriptions.

    To be able go out for a meal or get a takeaway that isn't going to make me ill.

    To be able to get clothes and shoes in my size without the heartbreaking hassle and bugeration.

    That will do for now but I could go on!