Do you think you are living a happy life? What are the things that make your life happy? Is it the money, your job, your partner, your family? What reasons do you have to feel happy everyday?
Secondly what are your motivations for living life? What makes you get out of bed and get excited about the day ahead of you?
(not theoretical, but practical views please)
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I like my work and there are some goals that I want to achieve (short term and long term) and I am working towards them.
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Do you think you are living a happy life? What are the things that make your life happy? Is it the money, your job, your partner, your family? What reasons do you have to feel happy everyday?
Secondly what are your motivations for living life? What makes you get out of bed and get excited about the day ahead of you?
(not theoretical, but practical views please)
I think i'm living a really happy life .. i mean obviously life can be better and be way worse... but i'm really satisfied with how my life is i don't think there is anything else other then a nice life partner (in futur) i can ask for... basically everything makes my life realy happy , like loving friends loving family... most of all peace . I'm not from a rich family .. just avrg. but really happy .. obviously who doesn't liek money? .. but i think ppl who really go after money will never really be satisfied with how much ever they get. everymorning when i think of school and my friends that really makes me get outa bed and get excited about all the fun stuff we'll do and just how we'll make every moment of our highschool really last and really memoriable =)
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I like my work and there are some goals that I want to achieve (short term and long term) and I am working towards them.
Thus all you motivation revolves around your work...
I think i'm living a really happy life .. i mean obviously life can be better and be way worse... but i'm really satisfied with how my life is i don't think there is anything else other then a nice life partner (in futur) i can ask for... basically everything makes my life realy happy , like loving friends loving family... most of all peace . I'm not from a rich family .. just avrg. but really happy .. obviously who doesn't liek money? .. but i think ppl who really go after money will never really be satisfied with how much ever they get. everymorning when i think of school and my friends that really makes me get outa bed and get excited about all the fun stuff we'll do and just how we'll make every moment of our highschool really last and really memoriable =)
Oh you're in high school... yes school was definitely a lot of fun... enjoy it while you can :)
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Alhumdolillah. Life is good for me. And i look forward to a even better future insha Allah.
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The future makes people happy and gives them hope. The promise of a brighter future.
What motivates me? My family, job, friends and of course...what may lie ahead.
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Alhamdolillah I am happy with what i have and have alwasys been brought up to be grateful for what you have. because at times you may think you have nothing but in actualy fact, you may have a DAMN sight more than other less fortunate.
i am happy with my job, my family life, friends and look forward to whatever come in the future.
still have goals predominantly long term such as getting sisters married, taking mum to hajj, settle down etc but that inshallah will come with time. i just look forward to the journey that takes places up until that point.
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^MashAllah
Some people suggest that you are unhappy when your skills are not being utilized... do you agree?
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Goals .. goals.. goals...
You need something to spend your freaking life, if you think you will achieve everything and then you will be happy .. nope you will not.
dad says: ... always thing big, if you can't dream how can you make it reality.
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Absoloutly.
because at that point you will feel useless, worthless and have no sense of direction.
i think the key thing is being happy with yourself. how many times do you hear of millionaires who have everything but still dont feel happy, because they are not happy with themselves. whereas someone who has nothing, only able to feed himself twice a day would be far more happier because he is content.
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I didn't know so many people were so happy ...
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^ I know - good for them.
I do think of all those things mentioned above.
I think I have depression... how do you know when you have depression?
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no you don’t…its just that sometimes being too much pragmatic makes you sound depressed (thats what i tell myself 
)
the clinical depression is when it begins to affect your life…like really really affect it…loss of apetite, anger, continous anxiety, sleeplessness etc etc
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okay...
loss of apetite - I wish!
anger - maybe a little
continuous anxiety - off and on yes
sleeplessness - i love to sleep it's like a hobby
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^MashAllah
Some people suggest that you are unhappy when your skills are not being utilized... do you agree?
Absolutely, in fact that is the reason why I'm finding it hard right now to identify just what it is I want to do with my life. I know I have potential, instead I'm stuck in boring desk job that I just don't think does justice to what I can achieve. I guess I'm motivated by the aspect of making money to some degree but I need to work out what my long term goals are professionally. Maybe I should be happy and grateful but if I said that I'd be lying.
As for everyday life I guess spending life with a loving family is motivation enough. I do miss my friends like crazy since most don't live in Pakistan, so I'm not exactly happy with my social life, its pretty boring these days. I'm not sure how or when I will ever find true happiness, maybe when I get married that would be a step up but for now my life is a pursuit of happyness :)
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^ Lol... that's what I tell myself - it'll be all better once i get married. I guess the utilizing your skills thing could really work though.
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okay... loss of apetite - I wish! anger - maybe a little continuous anxiety - off and on yes sleeplessness - i love to sleep it's like a hobby
sleeplessness shouldn't be on that list, if anything I sleep more when I'm sad or down. but you can add frustration and short fuse to that list because some days for me are spent snapping at anyone who tries crossing my path.
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Thus all you motivation revolves around your work...
Oh you're in high school... yes school was definitely a lot of fun... enjoy it while you can :)
Haha thank you and yes i'm in highschool =)
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Aah school days. Enjoy them while they last… 
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i dont knnow. but some people are too bitter and paranoid. so i guess it's good to have a balance? don't be so happy that it comes across as fake, but please have some akal and sense.