Contentment vs. Happiness

[Scrapheap]

20

You fucking old geezer!! Go back to the old-folks home grandpa!!! 

[Eclair]

Happiness to me is a feeling in time, it could last for an hour or a few days depending on the stimuli.

Contentment is one of those things that to me sounds like it's the preferred outcome, but really it's not for me.  I can think particularly on a few ocassions in my life where I've thought I was so content, but it was only my perception of things at that time.  I think the more you think you are content, the less you strive for happiness...at least that's how it works for me.

[Calandale]

Happiness to me is a feeling in time, it could last for an hour or a few days depending on the stimuli.

Contentment is one of those things that to me sounds like it's the preferred outcome, but really it's not for me.  I can think particularly on a few ocassions in my life where I've thought I was so content, but it was only my perception of things at that time. I think the more you think you are content, the less you strive for happiness...at least that's how it works for me.

Exactly. And even though one can be contented
almost all of the time, giving up the occasional
real happiness may be WAY too big a price to
pay.

[Eclair]

Happiness to me is a feeling in time, it could last for an hour or a few days depending on the stimuli.

Contentment is one of those things that to me sounds like it's the preferred outcome, but really it's not for me.  I can think particularly on a few ocassions in my life where I've thought I was so content, but it was only my perception of things at that time. I think the more you think you are content, the less you strive for happiness...at least that's how it works for me.

Exactly. And even though one can be contented
almost all of the time, giving up the occasional
real happiness may be WAY too big a price to
pay.

In my case it was, a hundredfold.
It's a happy day.  We agree on something and communicated clearly.   
 

Or should I be worried!

[Calandale]

.  We agree on something and communicated clearly.   

Or should I be worried!

I'm just too distracted to be subtle.

[El]

20

Young whipper-snapper.  When I was your age, we didn't have all them fancy emoticons on Intensity squared.  We just used our words to convey emotion.  None of this newfangled glitz and glamor.  *grumbles and rocks on a porch with a shotgun*

[Calandale]

20

Young whipper-snapper.  When I was your age, we didn't have all them fancy emoticons on Intensity squared.  We just used our words to convey emotion.  None of this newfangled glitz and glamor.  *grumbles and rocks on a porch with a shotgun*

Maw?

[Nomaken]

I was convinced of my irrelevancy when I was 13.  7 years isn't that small an amount of time.

[Calandale]

I was convinced of my irrelevancy when I was 13.  7 years isn't that small an amount of time.

Lucky bastard.