10 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If you got shipwrecked and had to live like Tom Hanks in Castaway would you still be happy? If not then you are only content, IMO.

That would be like heaven for me.

 

regards,

bob.

21 minutes ago, Robert_Smith said:

My endgame is to reach my full potential and keep on pushing for more.

 

More knowledge, more money, more women and more life experiences.

 

regards,

bob.

You can distract your mind with the external things, it wont make you younger though

"There is no such thing as happiness."

 

Not with that attitude... 😏

I think there is happiness, i dont think it can be achieved as long as youre a slave to impulse. Money is just numbers on a screen, sex is just a membrane creating friction and ejecting mucus. People need a purpose greater than just from external things

And neither will you ever be as you're identified with your mind, as is 99.9999% of the population.

Ditch the past and future... but not McDonalds.

it's a matter of perspective?

 

Serotonin
Dopamine
Endorphins
Oxytocin

Just now, fondue zoo said:

it's a matter of perspective?

 

Serotonin
Dopamine
Endorphins
Oxytocin

 

K-hole is were its at.

I read this blog post many years ago, and still turn to it now and again: 

Don’t Die With Your Music Still In You

"...So what is the point of a life dedicated to the acquisition and protection of stuff? All of your money and possessions can be taken away from you by forces outside your control. 

 

"What are you truly risking if you go after your dreams? If your current lifestyle is unfulfilling, then you’re starting broke, no matter how much money you have."

 

https://stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/01/dont-die-with-your-music-still-in-you/

There will be no Happiness, as long as obsessed to Live/Look Like Someone Else.

 

You need to follow the teachings of Buddha ,Bob , maybe then you will stop been

a miserable ,xenophobic git , 

 

regards worgeordie

1 hour ago, Robert_Smith said:

My endgame is to reach my full potential and keep on pushing for more.

 

More knowledge, more money, more women and more life experiences.

 

regards,

bob.

You forgot more beer. 😉 

2 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

For me, I am constantly striving for more.

I'm never happy with what I have, my current situation, how many women I have or how much I have in the bank.

 

I always want more..

 

This, I feel, is the key to success.

We only get what we will settle for.

 

If I didn't have this mindset, coming from a relatively poor family with limited opportunities - I would probably have ended up being a cleaner in Mcdonalds.

 

Sure, I may be content, but I would still be a cleaner in Mcdonalds...

 

regards,

bob.

 

Here ya go bob - your next life Buddhist style. A Preta. Unending wants..... 

2 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

For me, I am constantly striving for more.

I'm never happy with what I have, my current situation, how many women I have or how much I have in the bank.

 

I always want more..

 

This, I feel, is the key to success.

We only get what we will settle for.

 

If I didn't have this mindset, coming from a relatively poor family with limited opportunities - I would probably have ended up being a cleaner in Mcdonalds.

 

Sure, I may be content, but I would still be a cleaner in Mcdonalds...

 

regards,

bob.

"There is no such thing as happiness."

Why do I get the feeling we will eventually read about you as a "webfact" side-note after you join the Pattaya Sky Diving Club?

2 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

I'd rather die in a warm mansion, dressed in an armani suit, surrounded by gorgeous chicks than homeless, cold & alone on the street...

 

regards,

bob.

I can't see how dying in an Armani suit is any better than dying in a comfortable track suit.

 

By the time you are dying, how interested will you be in gorgeous chicks?

 

Happiness is an aspiration. Contentment is coming to terms with one's situation.

2 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

My endgame is to reach my full potential and keep on pushing for more.

 

More knowledge, more money, more women and more life experiences.

 

regards,

bob.

 

I'm amazed how you find the time striving for all this success so hard to bless us all with 78 threads a day?

 

Especially since you have to manage your bitcoin and shares portfolio.

5 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

5 hours ago, CharlieH said:

What’s your endgame? What does “enough” look like to you?

My endgame is to reach my full potential and keep on pushing for more.

 

More knowledge, more money, more women and more life experiences.

 

Chasing pleasure like the real or fictional Bob will never bring happiness. It becomes an addiction.

 

The feeling of happiness is a by product of living a good life. For the vast majority that's a strong combination of friends, family, faith (even if only in humanity) and work ( anything that contributes to another, even cooking a meal)

7 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

I'm never happy with what I have, my current situation, how many women I have or how much I have in the bank.

 

I always want more.

 

This, I feel, is the key to success.

 

It may be the key to success, but it certainly won't lead to happiness.  🤷‍♂️

 

If the choice is to have a lot of "success", but be stressed out and miserable; or to live a humble lifestyle, but feel happy and contented, I think most sensible people would choose the latter.

 

A lot of "successful" people are very unhappy, probably because they have something missing in their life that they use the success to try and replace, but they can never really replace it, so they're always unhappy.

4 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

A lot of "successful" people are very unhappy, probably because they have something missing in their life that they use the success to try and replace, but they can never really replace it, so they're always unhappy.

I'm successful and have a very big willy, but I'm still never happy.

 

regards,

bob.

6 minutes ago, Robert_Smith said:

I'm successful and have a very big willy, but I'm still never happy.

 

regards,

bob.

Neck too short?

6 minutes ago, Robert_Smith said:

I'm successful and have a very big willy, but I'm still never happy.

 

regards,

bob.

 

If someone were to feel like that, it's likely that something happened to them in their childhood that means they can either never be happy, or only feel happy when they experience some sort of overpowering external force, like earning a vast some of money or having a crowd of people cheer for them, but that feeling quickly goes away when the moment has passed.  They also feel far more deflated when something happens where they are made to feel inferior to someone else, which a regular person could likely shrug off.

 

This kind of person:

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/863952802533013

12 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

If someone were to feel like that, it's likely that something happened to them in their childhood that means they can either never be happy, or only feel happy when they experience some sort of overpowering external force, like earning a vast some of money or having a crowd of people cheer for them, but that feeling quickly goes away when the moment has passed.  They also feel far more deflated when something happens where they are made to feel inferior to someone else, which a regular person could likely shrug off.

 

This kind of person:

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/863952802533013

charming fella.

 

looks just like your typical pattaya frequenter.

 

regards,

bob.

Wanna know what brings happiness bob.  Contentment.  Being at ease with life and the way things are in the moment. 

Wanna know what creates Hell?  Unending wants.  Go out, buy a 10,000 THB dinner, drink the best booze, take designer drugs, have an orgy, wake up with a massive hangover, rinse, repeat - because - all the hedonism didn't slake those wants one bit.  You're still consumed by wants.  So to end the way I started...

Wanna know what brings happiness bob.  Contentment.  Being at ease with life and the way things are in the moment. 

14 minutes ago, connda said:

Being at ease with life and the way things are in the moment. 

...how can you be at ease with a world that is so full of un-ease??

 

bob.

And I always thought "Life was a bowl of Cherries"

For 1/4 of the world population daily affordable food and a stable roof over their heads would mean happyness.

20 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

That would be like heaven for me.

 

regards,

bob.

Not if you needed a root canal.

Rich people striving to be richer usually are more stressed than poorer folk.  High blood pressure, anger issues, diabetes from eating rich food etc... good luck to them.

 

I'm relatively poor.  Without the trappings of fast cars, fast women, consumer goods etc, I'm very happy with my life. 

 

Why do I need more than 2 pairs of shoes (one pair for running and one pair for everything else)?  I only have 2 feet.

 

Why do I need many shirts and trousers?  I only have one body to clothe. 

 

Why do I need gold rings, bracelets and so on?  I don't need to impress anyone and surely to my God no woman would love me without the $$$ (all 3 of my ex-wives were only in it for the $$$ from me).

 

I'm not a Buddhist, but following a modest lifestyle without consumer goods has helped me to be stress-free and relatively healthy. (It also saves on checked-in luggage costs!)

It's all relative. And what's wrong with being a cleaner?

This guy seems to be doing okay.

😄

23 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

For me, I am constantly striving for more.

I'm never happy with what I have, my current situation, how many women I have or how much I have in the bank.

 

I always want more..

 

This, I feel, is the key to success.

We only get what we will settle for.

 

If I didn't have this mindset, coming from a relatively poor family with limited opportunities - I would probably have ended up being a cleaner in Mcdonalds.

 

Sure, I may be content, but I would still be a cleaner in Mcdonalds...

 

regards,

bob.

Have you been reading Schopenhauer again?  "It is difficult to find happiness within oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else"