In general how satisfactory is your life? Did you achieve most of your goals?
I am really curious on how most people live – people who do not have Autism and Depression and are independent.
Here we go again.
Your OP and your poll question are different. My life is very satisfactory, I have exceeded most of my goals, but I am always very unhappy. I’m just built that way.
I also suffer Depression.
And I’m the opposite. I mean, my life is satisfactory, but it’s been a lot different than I planned, and certainly some dreams will never happen now, and it’s had its share of ups and downs.
But I’m happy.
My life is more than satisfactory. I have achieved most of my goals. I also have depression and anxiety, and yet, I am happy.
I did not achieve anything.
None of us will achieve anything. We give birth astride a grave.
Can there be misery…(yawns)…loftier than mine?
– Thanx and a tip o’ the hat to Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett!
I just had one of the happiest summers of my life, and while I’ve had one major disaster and several setbacks in life, and I ended up in a profession I never would have guessed I’d be in, it has worked out well for me professionally and I’ll leave quite a legacy in my wake. My default mood is happy, so that helps.
I’ve accomplished everything on my bucket list that I can, without winning the lottery. I’m miserable.
At least I’m happy for you…
and very happy for you.
I’ve lived an OK life, and have had some highs and lows as most people have experienced. Things could have been worse, but things could have been better.
I think it’s funny that you have three levels of unhappiness, all the way down to “extremely unhappy,” but the happiest you can possibly be is “very happy.” Anyway, that’s me. I’m very happy with just about every aspect of my life.
My life could have been much worse. Thank G-d I am not homeless, nor a drug addict.
Aren’t you the guy with the PhD in math? That’s an achievement, even if you don’t like math. Didn’t you have to publish some original research to obtain that degree? You expanded the frontier of human knowledge, in however small a way.
I mean, I’m depressed too, and I voted “unhappy” in the poll. But I recognize I have achieved some things in my life. I have an honorable discharge from the military, I got an engineering degree and a decent job as an engineer. I bought a house. I have a great wife and kid. I’m still depressed and unhappy at this point in my life, but I’m not going to fool myself into thinking I’m worthless. It’s just chemicals sloshing around in my head the wrong way.
Sometimes trying to look at your life objectively, or from the point of view of an outsider, takes the sting out of depression. I’m depressed and unhappy, and certainly have made a lot of bad decisions in life, and I’m not where I want to be, but I’m not worthless; and my life has had some ups as well as downs, even if I could only recognize the ups in hindsight, at a distance. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. Nobody is as bad as depressed people think they are.
There is more depth to unhappiness then to happiness. I am very unhappy, but not extremely unhappy.
Very happy. Doesn’t stop me from complaining.
Given that I hate Math with passion it is not an achievement. I did not want that degree.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.