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Sep 26, 2015 8:13 PM
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To preface this, I'm not talking about an ephemeral euphoria or happiness relating to a specific incident, but instead the actual state of constantly having a generally positive overall outlook on life.
What is it like to feel satisfaction with your life?
Is success required to feel such a thing?
Is satisfaction or an optimistic attitude towards life just ignorance?
Do any of you feel satisfied with your own lives?
Why do you feel this way?
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Sep 26, 2015 8:18 PM
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I think satisfaction is feeling happy with your life.

No, you can be satisfied with being lazy. Ignorance with satisfaction is when you think you are successful, but you are alone. I don't think anyone who is alone but with money would be truly happy.

Not yet, I don't like having to constantly have my parents pay for me most of the time, I want to contribute to my own life. I'm almost an adult, I do have a job though.

It's just life.
Sep 26, 2015 8:20 PM
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Less anime, more meditation: noice life.
Sep 26, 2015 8:23 PM
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I feel like the opposite of this.
Sep 26, 2015 8:27 PM
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Protaku94 said:
I feel like the opposite of this.

the opposite of what?
Sep 26, 2015 8:29 PM
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It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning --
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Sep 26, 2015 8:31 PM
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Donger_Senpai said:
Is satisfaction or an optimistic attitude towards life just ignorance?
I don't believe so. You can be a realist and an optimist.
Sep 26, 2015 8:54 PM
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Donger_Senpai said:

What is it like to feel satisfaction with your life?
Is success required to feel such a thing?
Is satisfaction or an optimistic attitude towards life just ignorance?
Do any of you feel satisfied with your own lives?
Why do you feel this way?


I'm okay with life most days not necessarily satisfied, sometimes I'm happy and ready to face it sometimes I feel a firm indifference about living. I don't think success is necessarily required for everyone but I feel better when I achieve a goal. I don't think optimism is ignorance just a way of dealing with hardship. I'm rarely satisfied but I want to find my satisfaction someday and I won't quit until I do. I feel this way for so many reasons mainly because 'I'm not really good for anything even for the things I want to do in life and I'm not really getting any better but maybe I will if I keep trying.
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Sep 26, 2015 8:57 PM
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Sep 26, 2015 9:02 PM

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Zivith said:
I think satisfaction is feeling happy with your life.

No, you can be satisfied with being lazy. Ignorance with satisfaction is when you think you are successful, but you are alone. I don't think anyone who is alone but with money would be truly happy.

Not yet, I don't like having to constantly have my parents pay for me most of the time, I want to contribute to my own life. I'm almost an adult, I do have a job though.

It's just life.


I agree most with these answers, except that I am somewhat satisfied with my life. Although, I would like to get a job soon ><
Sep 26, 2015 11:20 PM

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Having a constant positive outlook on life (ok, admittedly I'm a cynic but a hopeful one) is the only way to enjoy happiness the way it should be.
[i]"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!''
~Oscar
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Sep 26, 2015 11:21 PM

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No sense in staying inside if the weathers fine and you've got the time!
Life is good.

I hate math. Sucks the happiness out of the best of days.
Sep 27, 2015 12:49 AM
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Unless you are blissfully ignorant or really really dumb, I don`t think anyone is happy all the time. You just deal with the whatever emotion or events that comes in your life and hopefully more positive comes out of it than negative.

It also helps to appreciate simple things in life like, conversation with friends, coffee, anime, hugs from your loved ones, warm showers, etc.
Sep 27, 2015 7:32 AM

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I feel satisfaction after a day in which I accomplished a lot. If I spent most of the day doing fun things or informative things, I feel like my life is going somewhere and there's more to look forward to. Generally all it takes is a few hours with friends, a review, a few anime episodes and reading 90 pages from a book.

But holding a conversation with a girl helps, too.
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Sep 27, 2015 3:07 PM
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What is it like to feel satisfaction with your life?

A steady rhythm of activity and meaningful bonds with a few. Also love.

Is success required to feel such a thing?

I believe so.

Is satisfaction or an optimistic attitude towards life just ignorance?

Not really. Optimism makes some people happy, it works for them and that's all I need to know. I'm not optimistic myself though.

Do any of you feel satisfied with your own lives?

No.

Why do you feel this way?

When I'm idly watching the days go by it's like time has stopped for me. Feels like I've been left behind. It's not satisfying being outside to face failure but it's not satisfying hiding inside either. Distractions can only save me for so long.
Sep 27, 2015 3:13 PM

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Donger_Senpai said:

Do any of you feel satisfied with your own lives?


loooooooooooool nope.
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Sep 27, 2015 3:17 PM

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While my life isn't absolutely amazing or anything, it could be much worse so I'm satisfied for now.
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Sep 27, 2015 3:24 PM

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What is it like to feel satisfaction with your life?
I don't know. But i'm okay with that ! I'm still a privilegied white european male, as some people could say.

Is success required to feel such a thing?
I don't think. I know that a lot of "successful" people are rather unhappy with their lifes... It depends on which level you want to be successful, i guess. Financial ? Relational ?
I'm not sure if success is that important to be satisfied with your own life.

Is satisfaction or an optimistic attitude towards life just ignorance?
It's more like having an optimistic standpoint, i'd say.

Do any of you feel satisfied with your own lives?
Not me. I don't know if i'll ever be satisfied with myself.

Why do you feel this way?
I have yet to earn anything important by myself. That's why. And it's starting to bother me pretty harshly. :(
Sep 27, 2015 3:47 PM
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It was so long ago since I felt satisfied about life, that I have forgotten. To define satisfaction in life, I would say that when you do long for tomorrow, for another day to come, then you are satisfied.


Sep 27, 2015 4:10 PM

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I've never been satisfied. I've never felt okay with my circumstances. My depression is just a way of life. After a while, you accept it.

Sep 27, 2015 4:34 PM
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Well, when I wake up every morning I'm always looking forward to what the day brings so yeah, I am satisfied with my life, where I am, where I'm going, etc.
Sep 27, 2015 4:35 PM

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I'm overall pretty unsatisfied with my life as it is right now, but I'm always striving for more.

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Sep 27, 2015 7:00 PM

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What does it feel like to be satisfied with your life? I'll let you know when I actually feel it.
Dec 19, 2015 12:07 AM

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Spooks said:
What does it feel like to be satisfied with your life? I'll let you know when I actually feel it.
Dec 19, 2015 3:31 AM

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I only get satisfied for a while, it eventually goes away.

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