life?

You can't really know before you try it. You can only make educated guesses and decisions and act on them.

I don't think the main point is to figure out precisely what it is that makes you happy and then do it. It's to do whatever you choose to do with dedication, diligence, and guts. Then, after having experienced it fully, you can walk away if you decide it's not for you. Also, this way, even if you do make a life-change, you only have good credentials and allies gained from the hard work you put into something that just wasn't meant to be your lifelong passion.

http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/thing...ine-happiness-10152010/?display=print


I haven't read it, i just stumble on it and by the title i guess it can be useful to post it here.

waiting for loco

learn to have an overall thankful attitude, and you'll be fine. gratitude is your only "weapon" against the universe's seemingly pointless never ending stream of tests

then, reflect hard

then, create stuff out of all this thinking

1) Happiness is your own mental attitude. You have to learn how to enjoy every thing you have, every experience you have.

2) Also thinking of death helps. Having 50 BI downswing is bad then you think of good life, but it's pretty good experience if the alternative would be being dead. So enjoy the ride.

3) Only majority of cooks, mathematicians and musicians know from childhood what they want to do. I recommend trying many things and then focusing more on some things that show promising results. You can always change between subjects.

4) Some people who have many interests and are often switching:
http://www.charlierose.com/search/?text=nathan+myhrvold
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11371

Happiness is not a destination, but a way of travelling. If you keep in mind that you were born alone, live alone and will die alone, you'll be able to accomplish ataraxia and adopt an hedonistic view of life, the only way to go through w/o thinking about giving a blowjob to a cal .45.

Maybe our calling is to play Diablo 3

both of your calling's is to start an awesome community at my website and help to grow nothing into something awesome

but seriously, I'm pretty sure I know how you feel. I waffle between what you describe and other emotional states pretty regularly. Its hard. The one thing that consistently pleases me is to learn more, to understand myself, others, and the world around me better. A piece of knowledge I found somewhat comforting is that a very large part of every person's general mood is genetically determined.
Trying to use the knowledge gained through study also reliably causes dopamine shots.
It is also impossible to overstate the benefits of exercising several times a week for general feel-goodness.

cocaine will make you happy, only problem is your gonna need a lot of cash to buy more

Try to remember what topics excited you as a young boy and try to strive for that. Go for your inner passions. Now that you are grown up you might have forgotton your true inner hobbies and passions. I was very much like you at one point after going to school. I always felt that school was just major Bullshit. It's just memorizing unimportant details without looking at the big picture. Wake up next morning and ask yourself what kind of life you want, how do you want your day to pass. Then think about what kind of hobby/interest can get you there. After that think about the ways that this interest/hobby can make you money or give you food/shelter and so on. I think you find the system too harsh and controling and you need to get out of it. Find nature. Nature gives abundance and sustainability. You put a seed, a whole tree grows with plenty of food on it. Research meditation and what experiences you can have through it. It's not just sitting on your ass and relaxing. There is much more. Search within you and create your outer world.

I don't know if a job and/or income will make you happy, but not being able to pay rent, buy food when hungry, do fun things from time to time will most certainly make you unhappy.

Loving yourself and others and all that posted by others is mandatory.

In terms of your job, you work to make money. Money AND free time makes you happy. Once you have enough money, money makes more money and you are free to do things you actually like with said money and time.

When you have money and time, you can do anything tbh lol. Wish I could get there sooner ;(.

Compound interest baby.

kinda like thewhoosel being a money nit to retire at age 30.

"I have little talent for happiness." - Samuel Beckett