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Just a thought after having nice convo with my OH over a coffee. What's makes you happy?. I'm talking about deep down happy not just riding bikes haha. I mean being on a mountain looking at great views, spending time on walks with your dog, being with family and partner, buying a new gadget etc.
Be interesting to see what others thoughts are on happiness.
Riding bikes makes me deep down happy...
Riding bikes makes me deep down happy...
Other than the obvious (spending time with my wife, kids and dog etc), riding my bike makes me deep down happy too!
Seeing elderly couples who appear to still be very much in love, pensioners holding hands cheers me up no end.
Kebabs.
Smell of pine trees in spring
Drawing pictures. Seriously.
When I've got something vividly pictured in my head, and I get it down exactly as I want it, the feeling of satisfaction and happiness I get is difficult to describe.
Kitten's tears
Closely followed by a post-via ferrata beer and cake with my wife.
Power kites. Oh, and one of those poppies from the Tower of London.
I have never known the happiness that a power kite could bring 😥
An afternoon nap
In no order...
Great food
Great locations
Great music
Great bikes/rides
Mstomhoward
Deep powder skiing. Sunbaked Alpine DH trails. Exploring an unfamiliar country. Her smile. Bacon and fresh coffee.
#prayforbinners
Money. Counting it, not spending it.
Pudding
As a sufferer of OCD, not much, but when i'm not thinking about that, my daughter and skateboards.......everything else is just white noise
My kids laughing. The most joyous and uplifting sound in the world.
A word of thanks after you've helped someone.
Truthfully, apart from superficial and fleeting happiness...struggling to think.. 😕
This. Every year. Makes all the hard work worthwhile. I can watch them for hours..
Mostly riding bikes. The best is when I'm in the zone in hard technical terrain in an awesome location - the kind of thing where you daren't not concentrate on the trail (you'll die. Messily), but there's just this awareness of the vastness of a beautiful landscape around you. La Varda would be a classic example. In the Uk dropping out of the cloud coming down the back of Cloggy on the Snowdon Ranger path or Esk Hause/Sty Head in the lakes. I also love standing high on an Alpine mountain singletrack and seeing snippets of it poking out of the landscape for the next few miles and knowing there's going to be some awesome riding coming shortly.
First run on untouched fresh pistes on a beautiful bluebird morning skiing (not good enough for pow yet). Driving FAR too fast on a great country road.
The first mouthful of beer/coffee/whisky after the above^^
I quite enjoy having planned some weird stuff at work, then the moment when it all comes together on site and BOSH, you've got a gig, but it's not the same high as above.
To be honest - the stuff that makes me deep down happy, is the stuff that I can get so engrossed in I can stop being aware of "me" all together. What that says about "me" probably doesn't make for good reading...
Small pieces of well-made light engineering... I can fondle a top-end rear mech or a fishing reel for hours.
A kind word... still waiting
Sorry for the cliché, but its mainly my son. He texted me from his school trip a couple of days ago to say he was having 'great fun' (teenagers just don't say that!) and it brought tears of joy to my old weary eyes.
Also live music in a grotty little club somewhere, discovering something new.
And riding off road out on them hills.
And the kid's rugby. Shame there's people there that act weird, but the kids are great.
Riding bikes. Fixing bikes. Nature (especially birds). Fine wine. Big cuddly dogs. The Mrs (she made me write that).
Sunshine. Doesn't matter if it's warm or cold.
Think I live in the wrong country.
Music
Otters playing
A baked potato with serious amounts of butter and cheese
Riding bikes downhill on singletrack (the rest of it is good but singletrack with a downward incline is the stuff of life)
The sea
The mountains
Not having anything I HAVE to do
This. Every year. Makes all the hard work worthwhile. I can watch them for hours..
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Hell yes! Happy lambs are tasty lambs!
Other than my wife and son:
Riding bikes, listening to a great album, proper sunny weather, being in forests or by the sea, dogs.
I was going to say my "P"
But I've handed it back.
I think its supposed to be the advice that you'd give your younger self from your death bed.
Afternoon coitus.
Masturbating furiously to the national anthem
Wilfully misinterpreting comments on the internet for my own amusement. If I can also squeeze in a Pune (or play on words) then all the better.
Masturbating furiously to the national anthem
Happy and glorious?
I think its supposed to be the advice that you'd give your younger self from your death bed.
Don't go to the dentist when you are really stoned?
[quote=JonEdwards ]To be honest - the stuff that makes me deep down happy, is the stuff that I can get so engrossed in I can stop being aware of "me" all together. What that says about "me" probably doesn't make for good reading...
I think that's probably fairly normal - or maybe I just have the same issues. Though to some extent achieving happiness seems more about avoiding being unhappy/sad, and being self-aware seems to cause me problems in that direction.
Though if the criteria is deep down happy, then I'm not sure about that. I've got a variety of things I regularly do which make me happy whilst I'm doing them, but it always seems to wear off too quickly, so I'm not sure I am deep down happy, or that anything does. I guess being content with having periods of feeling good is OK.
Beer, gin, red wine, barbecue food, bike riding, bike bits, bikes, stuff that works, a newly made bed, that rain smell, pine forest smell, petrol smell, kebab meat, seeing happy people laughing, animals playing, spring, my bank balance
[quote=yossarian ]Masturbating furiously to the national anthem
Furiously? Beat is a bit slow for that, surely?
Bikes / weans / wives / family/ dogs aside...
For me, happiness is most often found in the enjoyment of nature. Pick any day (especially a sunny one) and include a walk, a bit of hammock time, brewing tea over a fire in the woods or canoeing somewhere quiet. Lovely!
Furiously? Beat is a bit slow for that, surely?
Doubletime.
Masturbating furiously to the national anthem
Are you required to stand up?
A kind word... still waiting
I love what you've done with your hair! Are those new shoes? They're fabulous!
I'd say Owain Doull reverting back to a rim braked bike would probs make him happy.
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Are you required to stand up?
Of course, to attention. It's the national anthem.
Well at least someone's admitted to being a ****er, not usual on here.
'Yossarian is a ****er!'
That's made me quite happy saying that without being wrong.
Serious answer for once - freedom. So the summer holidays as a kid to the times I've taken a couple of months off between jobs. To wake up and do what I like whether that is a household chore or going for a ride doesn't matter having the freedom to choose feels good and makes me happy. Regular, routine office work makes me unhappy even though my job is OK, that lack of choice makes me unhappy
'Yossarian is a ****!'
You've put him in a difficult position. He is probably offended that you've said that but can't complain about it because he's admitted it's true.
It's a Catch 22 situation. 😉
My daughter recently turned 20 and the last time my Mrs and I went away for a couple of days she asked me to let her know we'd arrived safely. This is such a massive change from the teenage years that it took me completely by surprise.DezB - Member
Sorry for the cliché, but its mainly my son. He texted me from his school trip a couple of days ago to say he was having 'great fun' (teenagers just don't say that!) and it brought tears of joy to my old weary eyes.
As for the thread in general, seeing my daughter happy, and my Mrs. She's just about to turn 53 but she's running, yogaing and weightlifting and everytime I look at her I just think "phwoar!" 🙂
[quote=perchypanther ]It's a Catch 22 situation.
It's probably making him crazy
and my Mrs. She's just about to turn 53 but she's running, yogaing and weightlifting and everytime I look a her I just think "phwoar
Well, you would marry someone 30 years younger. 😉
Some days it feels like it 🙂
Seeing a trail go in to the distance, sound of moving water, smell of forest/fields, warm sunshine, festivals, seeing my mate fall off his bike instead of it being me for a change, my bong
binners - MemberDrawing pictures. Seriously.
When I've got something vividly pictured in my head, and I get it down exactly as I want it, the feeling of satisfaction and happiness I get is difficult to describe.
I fully understand that, not from my ability to draw but to get down a design that sorts a problem out in my case.
I have occasionally sat looking at an old schematic drawing of a plant layout and had a eureka moment which in 3 minutes of sketching has saved £1000's in energy use and introduced so much more flexibility.
To crush my enemies. To see them driven before me. And to hear the lamentations of their women.
I was going to say burning off mates, but remembered I'm from Yorkshire and don't really like being happy.
(And as Sting - real name Gordon Sting - once said in an NME interview: "we're not here in this world to be happy. We're here to[i] learn[/i]..." Heavy. Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof...)
What does [i]happy [/i]even supposed to mean?
Still with the power kites . . . . .really
going really fast in a windsurfer , in the sunshine, when the sea is warm, then doing big floaty mast high jumps on the way out, then riding a wave back in and making some sweet bottom turns and drops on it.
Taking something thats broken apart , and fixing it and putting it back together and it then works properly, great sense of acheivement.
My beers getting 4* reveiws on Untappd.
[s]does[/s] is?
A work one, but, meeting kids who wouldn't have gone to uni without something I did. Doesn't happen that often- mostly we're all squabbling over the kids that have already decided to go to uni- but when it does it's pretty damn good. Some of my first guys graduate this year.
wordnumb - Member
What does happy even supposed to mean?
UR WRDZ R NMB.
Sunrise
And Scotroute's missus. Or at least his reaction to her.
William S. Burroughs — 'Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.'
Staying away from the Brexit and Trump threads.
Barmaids.
Yeah, hearing scotroutes pay his wife huge compliments on here, hope he says it to her once in a while.
That makes me very happy.
Cheese, really tasty local cheeses
Well yesterdsy it was a diclofenac suppository, that and trippy dreams from 20mg morphine.
CFH sed> UR WRDZ R NMB.
It's a cause of unhappyness. [notsmileyface]
free haribos at work
Wandering around the scenery makes me happy. Seeing people smile makes me happy. Knowing I have done a good job and made a real difference to people makes me happy and just occasionally I get a nice handwritten thank you card - that makes me very happy indeed
Serious answer.
As per Kayak23.
My dog, camping on an island, and deep deep snow.
Edit: Er and the Mrs of course 🙂
True answer? I was asked this by my therapist about 25 years ago. I answered "walking with my dog Snapper down country tracks in the sun.". Still my answer. Snapper died 20 years ago.
Real custard
Not a lot after losing my mum last autumn but I've since started to realise that I like, a hell of a lot in fact, most of what's in my life; wife and two children, my Dog, and my job, and I'm gonna try and appreciate it more. In fact I'm going to start getting a lot more of what makes me happy; riding trails, running with the dog, having a laugh with my family & friends, trips away, beer, gin, meat and 69'er's, abound.
Though I'm writing this whilst trying to settle a restless one year old so his fun time with Daddy is getting reduced as punishment.
My kids but on the other hand they can also drive me mad!