Happy or content: Which would you rather be?

@Kstrong Exactly.

@WandererTony I think I understand, but content is anything but a perpetual twilight and much more akin to low-key happiness without the endorphin rush that so quickly vanishes.

@Ontheroad a twilight is indeed a low key happiness 🙂 Dont you love the dawn?
The sunrise is a greater visual delight but does not last. The day is longer but limited in length with so many shades of moods. Til the night takes over.
However, analogies may be inaccurate. My point was that swinging changes are better than stillness.
Theres a song in my native language that says that it is better to have one day of love and then death than a loveless lifetime. Something similar 🙂

@CookieCrumbs I've often thought (when asked if I'm happy), that I'm not and that bothered me... quite a lot. But, when I finally realized how content I've become, I realized happiness, while similar to contentment, is usually a fleeting moment and filled with elusive expectations. It's those expectations that, when unfulfilled, tend to shatter us. Now I'm thrilled to feel content and just accept whatever happiness comes along.

@Ontheroad
[quote]It's those expectations that, when unfulfilled, tend to shatter us.
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And those are the expectations that we will remain happy in the exact same way and intensity. Life doesn’t work that way.

@CookieCrumbs Exactly! And, funnily enough, the less I expect, the happier those happy moments are.

@MoonlightLullaby Loved the post and couldn't agree more with the sentiments.

@Ontheroad Thank you!

@Ontheroad So i bake, cook and wash and clean .. barefoot too? Very modern 😂

@NerdySoph Nah, not barefoot... until you clean the floors 😂🤣😂

@Ontheroad 🤣

@LordShadowfire I understand. I’ve had [b]neither[/b] for awhile, now and was simply agreeing with him. 😞

@bijouxbroussard I suspected that was the case... it took me a long, long time to get to content. Too many events that sapped the happiness out of life and it took me a long spell to understand what I was searching for was contentment... then I had to find my way there.

I wish that for you... the feeling of being content with oneself and life. It makes those fleeting happy moments all the richer.

@Ontheroad Thank you. 🥹