What's the one thing that would make you happy?

(was on colin quinn tonight)

I thought it for a minute and here's my best shot for the moment:

Understanding.

All else follows.

What do you think?

What's your answer?

 

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Lots of riches.
All else follows

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BTW colin quinn's show is painfully awful, unless giraldo is on of course.

 

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love, and it does sometimes.

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The means (money) to live a hedonistic lifestyle most of the time, and also allowing me to benefit humanity in some way.

 

I am quite happy. My kids keep me that way. With more money life would be easier so I would be able to enjoy my happiness more. But there is one thing - some of my old friends "disappeared" recently without any particular reason. If they come back, I'll be very happy.

 

For me, happiness would be non-existance!
What tops that?

 

Satisfaction and peace of mind.

 

My hubby knew a spanish guy who always complained of being poor when we were young. He was sick and tired of eating Tortilla and refried Beans everyday. Now, he's rich, he owns hotels, gas stations, exclusive water and gas distribution business for a large region. He's flithy rich and owns everything you can imagine. I spoke to him last year and I learned that he suffers from a progressive Stomach cancer....He told me that he would literally give it all up for a bowl of refried beans and a couple of tortillas.

 

Why doesn't he buy some refried beans and tortilla's?
See people who aren't happy being rich just don't know how to be rich.
I do.
God damn I would kick ass at being rich.

 

He's on a feeding tube. His stomach can't even handle chicken noodle soup, not to mention good ol refried beans double fried in car oil.

 

Oh I get it.
Well yeah, I never said I'd trade being a functioning organism for riches.
Hmmm ... then again, what sort of riches are we talking about? If I could afford a robot body to insert my brain into I might think about it.

 

I am happy as hell, but im crazy, which makes me happy.

 

I think that wes's answer precedes all others.
Understanding can lead to riches.
Understanding can lead to love.

Understanding is, in my opinion, the most fundamental "thing" that would lead to pure happiness.

You would never be in doubt of someones motives.
You would never be in doubt about your own.
Stock market? Your playground.

Wes, understanding would make me happy as well.

 

Re: Re: What's the one thing that would make you happy?

My premise exactly. The only thing that does not follow from understanding is the lack thereof.

Further, I mean.. If I was I was "understanding" that means I want to understand and that I want understanding from others.

Total package.

 

Though Wes, understanding can be a burden as well.

 

Ya think? As I think that I think, :"but I understand the burden."

Then I think: "do you think it should come for free?"

When I first thought it I wondered... "if I really, really, REALLY understood, would I just shoot myself in the head?"

If so I think it would be worth it.

I think understanding is the root.

Keep thinking about it.

Do you think anything comes for free?

*shrug*

 

Understanding is a good one...

Although I'm not sure it would truly make me happy.

I'd be really bored over the long run.
To many .... " I know " or " I understand ".

In it's simplest form the answer for me is

"happiness" itself.

 

What's your answer?

Ignorance. From there everything else flows.

 

I have an example, from a story.

"The edge of the world, by Michael Swanwick"

Sorry, I couldnt find a ful text, but i will type in the relavent part.

Setting : Three teenagers are at the "edge of the world" and they are each granted a wish (they didnt know it would be granted) The girl, Donna, wished she could "know what the situation was" whenever she was dealing with people. In other words, understand their motives, and where they are coming from. The kid russ wished himself out of existence, and piggy wished for a way up.

 

Maybe so, but then you end up in that whole matrix thing. What if to be happy you have to kill all your friends so your memory can be wiped and you can be rich in fake world really ran by machines?

It's a good point, but I wonder if "understanding" in the largest sense is really a theoretical limit rather than a potential reality. For me, the quest to understand makes me happy. I'm not sure if there would be much happiness in complete understanding, but at that point happiness might be kind of a moot issue, as it would not likely really cover the type of experience that true "understanding" might yield.