How would you really lik e to feel?

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Given the choice, how would you like to feel?
Poll ended at 18 Sep 2008, 11:52 am

Calm	8%	[ 3 ]
Peaceful	16%	[ 6 ]
Happy	30%	[ 11 ]
Feeling good	14%	[ 5 ]
Healthy	14%	[ 5 ]
OK	0%	[ 0 ]
Other (what's yours?)	19%	[ 7 ]

Total votes : 37

Weirdobird
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14 Sep 2008, 11:52 am

I'm writing a book and wondering what to put in it for maximum reader benefit. So, given the choice, how would you like to feel?

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14 Sep 2008, 11:58 am

i would stab my own eyes out just to be a happy person

Nikky91
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14 Sep 2008, 12:03 pm

I'd feel happy

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14 Sep 2008, 12:07 pm

Happy is stressful, even if it's a good kind of stress. Calm is better.

(Learned in my anthropology class that people in the Western world tend to pick "happy" over "calm", with vice versa in the East... no data on the Middle East yet! That makes me atypical since I am genetically German and culturally German-American.)

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14 Sep 2008, 2:03 pm

I can be happy and stressed at the same time. I've recently opted for peacefulness and calm in my life, but I'm not really happy. Stress always comes along with excitement in a job environment, and though I'd love to be stress-free, it's also pretty boring as well. It's a choice between being happy & stressed or being bored & calm, for me. Can't seem to have both 'happiness' and 'calm' for some reason...

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14 Sep 2008, 3:12 pm

Happy all the way

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14 Sep 2008, 3:27 pm

I voted other cause there's no "all of the above" option. it's kinda hard to choose between happy and healthy ;p

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14 Sep 2008, 3:36 pm

I chose peaceful. I live in one of the craziest, most hectic towns in the world.

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14 Sep 2008, 3:44 pm

I believe the feeling I would like to have is currently known as:

"being in the zone".

Not the twilight zone, but something like being hyper aware and able to do things,
which is what athletes tend to describe when their mind and body are in perfect
sync with whatever they are doing and they are doing it extraordinarily well.

If I was able to jump up in the air and do a flip and land on my feet,
and if I was able to talk to anyone anytime without anxiety or slowness,
then I would say I would be "in the zone" then.

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14 Sep 2008, 3:57 pm

calm..nigth its only time when i can relax mostly because im feeling jiggery at days

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Weirdobird
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14 Sep 2008, 4:00 pm

Oooh, thanks, folks

What about "Peacefully happy" or "Happily peaceful"?

Or is "Serene" better?

PS - I like the "in the zone"

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14 Sep 2008, 5:00 pm

I would like to feel happy as in having fun and enjoying life.

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14 Sep 2008, 8:40 pm

Voted for Other.
Would like to feel (realistically-yet positively-if such thing is possible) confident and stable.

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14 Sep 2008, 9:32 pm

Healthy.

"If you ain't got your health, then you got nothing else." -- Grampa Adams (1892 - 1993).

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17 Sep 2008, 9:46 am

Thank you so so much
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17 Sep 2008, 12:17 pm

I would like to feel as my username says. However, I don't think that I could enjoy it as much if I hadn't gone to such horrid depths of loneliness, pain, isolation, and confusion to compare it with. Obtaining the feeling of serenity, and holding onto it is my life goal, if I ever had one.

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