Sure!

I've never done a good job of defining this word. I feel positive about today and the immediate future, I love my job, family and friends, and there isn't anything I'm dreading. I am not at this moment exhiliarated and screaming with joy, but I'm glad to be alive and am looking forward to what today brings. I think that's a "yes".

Not right now that someone has rated my answer down on some other category for no particular reason. -_-;;;

Yep, today I am, as I am most days. I do get my down days just like everyone else, but mostly I'm happy.

Considering all that is going on in the world, I try to keep my life as on track as I can. I am lucky to have good health and good friends and job security. I would say I am happy as I could be at this point in life. What makes me feel even better-happier is to help those around me feel better so they can feel happy as well.

What an incredibly simple yet GREAT question. Not really sure. I think so. I love my boys, I have you all. Would like more points, but doesn't everyone? =-D

Today- Yes, I'm pretty happy

Yes. I am usually happy (>90% of the time).

For the most part, yes. But there are days. Haha.

Yup! i Certainly am!

Not at the moment. I see happiness as a transient emotion, just like sadness, grief, fear, anger... it comes and goes like clouds passing through the sky. So I'm actually not very interested in happiness -- certainly not interested enough to engage in "the pursuit of happiness". There's something much more important, in my opinion: wholeness. To be whole is to be yourself, and to really know what that means at a deep level. The kind of "being yourself" that matters to me has a natural satisfaction wired directly into it, and provides the crucial capacity for unconditional love, freedom, creativity, compassion, and mental health. To be whole allows for all feelings to come and go in their own time: if someone I love dies, I'm sad. If I make a bad mistake, I feel guilty. If something wonderful happens, I'm happy, and so forth. All of these states have their place, but to try to cling to one of them (happiness) and make it permanent is one of the surest recipes for suffering that mankind ever invented.

I'm content, I geuss things could be better, but I'm happy enough.

Yup! Got my health, my love, my pets, my home and a job to keep all those!

No not at all at the moment

I am happy, but I'm not happy about everything 'bad' that goes on in this world. I help out where I can, but ultimately I feel it would be an injustice to my life to not be happy and appreciate my blessings.

Im not really happy but I think I do a pretty good job at hiding that from others.

No I am not.

No I am not. Wish I was. I often see myself whenever I see video footage of the late Revrend Jim Jones.

I'm mostly happy, most of the time...lol Right now I'm also stressed out and worried about my house in San Diego, because it's still not rented out, and I've had to pay out to get it fixed from the prior tenant...I may have to sue them for the difference between their $2000 deposit and the amount of damages/repairs and loss of rent because it couldn't be rented in the condition he left it. I need to get as close to the mortgage costs as I can...and rents are currently DOWN in that area. SO...I'm stressed out...but I still try to enjoy other happy aspects of my life..I don't like to waste those moments or events.

Wow, reading everyone's answers it is amazing how many people there are that truly aren't happy. Well I guess we can't all be happy all the time now can we. I am sometimes happy and sometimes a bit depressed. Like right now for example--I am not all that happy to be at work but I am happy for what will come this evening and I look forward to that so that thought makes me happy.(I am going to start taking belly dancing classes as a form of exercise and they start tonight!). I am not a sad person in general. Usually I am rather chipper. That usually just comes from trying to keep a positive attitude on things and not letting everyone else's bad moods get to me. I have my health. I have my children and they are healthy. I still have both of my parents who are alive and still married for the past 50 years. I have my husband and we are happily married and love each other very much. But then I have distance from my parents, brothers, and sisters, and the friends that I grew up with so I can't see them as often as I would like. Because I am female I have menstruation :( and hormones. Happiness is subjective and depends on how you look at your life. So to answer the question yes and no. There are aspects of my life I am not happy about, and yet there are aspects of my life that I am absolutly happy about.

I am not happy. I am super!

Big time happy here. do not have much money, do not live in a million dollar home, do not drive a fancy automobile, do not owe many bills. Big time happy here. i do have good health, i do have a great wife, i do have a job i love, i do have a faithful dog, and i do have many friends. Happy is only a word. what you make of it, is up to you.

I will be in about 30 seconds because im leaving this darn computer.

I guess you would have to define what you mean by happy. I suppose compared to others I have a happy life. I don't know sometime i think happiness is way to overrated- I much prefer joy in all things. don't mena to be morbid or anything though- I like happy people

I AM! Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy! Kinda lonely right now in my life, but HAPPY!!

sometimes I am and sometimes I am not.... waking up on the wrong side of the bed or not...it's amazing how just one person could ruin your day and another could make it the best

Yes pretty much so - It started when I learned to change what I could change and let it go when I can't

Right now, I wouldn't define my condition as "happy," but a mere "content." I'm fine, I'm breathing, I'm looking forward to tomorrow and this instant, but I'm not beyond neutral at this point.

Sometimes

I just missed Anthony Bourdain's new episode of No Reservations, of course not.

Very happy. In almost every aspect of my life, and even in the bad parts of it, I try to remain positive.

i guess, but this word can be mistaken alot so im not sure if im truly happy.

yah because I am answering a good question

No...but I'm not going to give the laundry list of reasons why I'm not as happy as I should be. It would take a long time.

Everyday! If I'm breathing, I'm happy!

As far as I know, yes, but if I ever get to experience a higher understanding of happiness, I may look back on myself here and now and think I wasn't.

i cant say that i am me and my girlfriend just broke up cause i caught her cheeting but then i found this site and you guys helpd me cope with it so i dont feel like dieing anymore =]...thanks

...probably too stupid to be sad, or too lazy!

As many have said before, the term "happy" may be difficult to pin down. Perhaps if you use a point in time as reference to compare. Am i happy at this moment? Not particularly, but compared to last Fall, i am ecstaticly content.

I try to be...But who can define happy?

Yes, Because every one I know is nice and treat me right.

yes i am....i like school - have lots of good friends...am not behind on much work that i care about...can play sports...have no family problems and am not fat...and am gay

No! Shut up and leave me alone.

Most of the time.

I make an effort to be happy. When I'm sad, I think of things to make me happy and remind myself that it could be a lot worse.

You know, I'm a very happy person. I know that I have so much ahead of me- school, career, life in general... I can be so much. I can do whatever the hell it is I want to do, or become in life. I know I can. I have a great family, great life... I'm a great person. So, why do I feel like shit all the time?

no, not right now.

Happier than usual, and slightly unburdened. I wish I had someone hug me right now, though.

Not today- it is cold here and I am ready for spring to arrive.

Most of the time.

When you are young, the word happiness floats in the air. When you get older, more lifetime disappointments the word happiness is a bit more difficult to comprehend. The answer to your question is 'no', I am not happy. I am not happy with myself, my life, my world. Thats as honest as I can be.

No i don't feel happy at all but I'm looking forward for this to change.

no not at all, i havnt been for a while. but hopefully things are looking up and im getting there :0)

Yep : ) I'm perpetually happy : ) Once you learn to appreciate everything, right down to mere existence, you learn to permanently stop being unhappy : D Truly, I am a truly happy person.

Yes, but somedays I forget that I am.

I am genuinely happy for short time periods. It's easy to get my moods up. Unfortunately I'm bi-polar so I usually crash afterward. :(

Yeah, considering happiness is a choice, not something imposed from without. More often than not, I choose happiness.

The last while no! Even when i am happy i know im not genuinely happy neva mind life sucks eh!

Yes but I get tired so easily and that limits my fun.

Normally, yes I am or at least I try and make others perceive me as so. At this very moment I am completely miserable (rough patch).

Yes most of the time I am + 5

Yes I'm happy and relaxed

Yes :)

Yes.

Yes i am feeling happy :))

I am elated right now.

Not really.

Not at the moment no, but my challenge is to find happiness, and look back at how sad i am now and be happy that it changed

Im more calm then anything!!! but ya in good spirits

Both yes and no. When my father is around more often when he's awake, I'm miserable and afraid to talk or do much of anything. But with my boyfriend everything seems so much better even when my dad has to comment on something negatively but he still makes me sad even with my boyfriend around.

Yes - almost always!

All in all I am, but some things do tend to bother me at times; this is when I start to search my own motives and heart more, to really see if I'm in the right standing.

not really

Yes I am very happy. Are you?

Not right now. I must sell my home in the south and move north to help my son with a horrible, bitter ex-wife and with his business. I am really down. But I know it's worse for my poor son.

Not right now. I must sell my home in the south and move north to help my son with a horrible, bitter ex-wife and with his business. I am really down. But I know it's worse for my poor son.

Happiness is not a permament state of mind. I think we need all emotions, good and bad, fo shape us. I am happy right now being part of the AB community. I am happy when I see a new flower in my garde. I am happy when I listen a song I like. And, I can still be sad about the things that hurt and can not chage. But, the sum of all those smiles, laughter and tears is me.

Yes. Happiness is a choice. I spent a lot of years thinking, "I'll be happy when ______" I'll be happy when I finish my degree. I'll be happy when I have a better job. I'll be happy when I'm married. I'll be happy when I have a child. I'll be happy when I get another car and get rid of this wreck. I was miserable all that time. I finally realized that happiness doesn't come from stuff. Happiness doesn't come from circumstances. Happiness comes from trusting God and being content in what you have and where you are. I have been happy ever since I came to that realization. I have been happy while nursing my child through an aneurysm, a stroke, brain surgery, a brain tumor and 15 months of chemotherapy. I have been happy while concurrently nursing my mother through her last six years of cancer and chemotherapy. I have been happy though poor and living in a falling down house and driving a wreck of a car. Why? Because I trust that God has our best interests at heart. I trust that however it turns out, it will be okay. I trust that I am not in control, have never been in control and can never be in control, and its okay that way. There are too many variables for me to ever be in control. And it is a relief to let go. I pray every time I set out in our old car and every time we make it there and back. I reach out to others and try to lift them up and I'm rewarded with loving friends. And that is enough.

not at the moment!

no!

At this point in my life not always..its hard times possible divorce...however i do have 2beautiful children and i know there are people who have more serious problems out there and can still be happy.. people tend to confuse fun and happiness... you can go out and have fun come home and still feel empty because u are not happy..so please find that happiness like im trying to and hold on tight

No I am not.

I think I am!

I hope i am happy

at this time yes, but not all the time

I'll alert the media

Cant complain.

I'm quite upset right now for a wide variety of reasons. But I'm going to try to forget all of the crap and think positively. I am very glad to hear you are happy. Very glad.

no. not for a while now, but i am trying to change my outlook. AB helps sometimes...

I am right now. It will pass as everything does:)

no she just broke up with me

Are you rubbing it in? ;)

I'm content

Content and accepting what I have.

Happy, having a mixed drink, getting ready to go eat some dinner.

im broke... money can't buy happiness, but poverty can buy misery :P

Doing just fine thanks. A few things could be better but for the moment that's the least of my worries. : )

yea I am

I happy that you are happy. I am happy and contended. Your happiness makes me happier and even more contended. Please do remain happy and contended.

I ain't exactly shittin' in high cotton, but I can't complain.