Have you ever been happy?

[Alchemist]

In junior high school, I was the top student in my class. If I remember correctly, my past self was very hopeful about life and future in general. My parents had high expectation of me. I too had high expectation for myself. I thought the future would be straight and narrow. I thought I would grow to be a great person. I thought everything would be ok.

I realize I was being naive.

Story of my life. I had perfect grades until I reached highschool, then everything dropped to barely making it.

 

[TheFinalCountdown]

I was happy for half a year or so when I was about 19. Maybe I was happy at some point when I was a little kid but I don't remember

 

[ayanonikki]

i think for the majority of my life i was just not aware of how unhappy i was with who i am and what my life is. for example, when i was 8 i stopped eating in order to lose weight, i was too young to realise that i actually despised how my body looked and that this was extremely unhealthy. i just thought that i needed to lose weight and this was the easiest and fastest way to do so. or when i was 15 and i wore makeup and dressed up in skimpy clothes for a picture and didn't realise how not content i was with the fact that i wasn't getting enough likes online and how fake i was being to achieve that, completely untrue to myself.

for the past year or so i've been really reflective of what my life has been up until now and i realise how unhappy i am, how many things i hate about myself and the world. but now that i'm aware of it i'm going to try and make an active change to myself and for myself so i can change my self-image.

 

[SadGirl]

i think for the majority of my life i was just not aware of how unhappy i was with who i am and what my life is. for example, when i was 8 i stopped eating in order to lose weight, i was too young to realise that i actually despised how my body looked and that this was extremely unhealthy. i just thought that i needed to lose weight and this was the easiest and fastest way to do so. or when i was 15 and i wore makeup and dressed up in skimpy clothes for a picture and didn't realise how not content i was with the fact that i wasn't getting enough likes online and how fake i was being to achieve that, completely untrue to myself.

for the past year or so i've been really reflective of what my life has been up until now and i realise how unhappy i am, how many things i hate about myself and the world. but now that i'm aware of it i'm going to try and make an active change to myself and for myself so i can change my self-image.

Just live for you, live for you to feel good about yourself. Be who you are without caring about others' opinions.

 

[IronTusk]

Yes but more horrifying is the moment i realized my life would become a nightmare.

 

[marcusuk63]

Just live for you, live for you to feel good about yourself. Be who you are without caring about others' opinions.

Your reply made a song pop into my head (been a Supertramp fan for decades lol )

 

[SadGirl]

Your reply made a song pop into my head (been a Supertramp fan for decades lol )

I like it.

 

[Alchemist]

i think for the majority of my life i was just not aware of how unhappy i was with who i am and what my life is. for example, when i was 8 i stopped eating in order to lose weight, i was too young to realise that i actually despised how my body looked and that this was extremely unhealthy. i just thought that i needed to lose weight and this was the easiest and fastest way to do so. or when i was 15 and i wore makeup and dressed up in skimpy clothes for a picture and didn't realise how not content i was with the fact that i wasn't getting enough likes online and how fake i was being to achieve that, completely untrue to myself.

for the past year or so i've been really reflective of what my life has been up until now and i realise how unhappy i am, how many things i hate about myself and the world. but now that i'm aware of it i'm going to try and make an active change to myself and for myself so i can change my self-image.

That's exactly what I was saying on the topic on social media, it only makes people miserable and insecure, at least when I was a teen I only had to deal with bullying on a local level and didn't had everyone rubbing on my face how good their lives were,

I knew a guy once that for that and other reason has forbidden his kids from using any and all social media until they turn 18.

 

[K8!]

No. My happiness came through others, being happy for them. But I cant say i have ever been happy

 

[Dead beat dad]

I was happy as a little boy. The more I came to know of the world, what it is and what it had in store, the sadder I became.
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