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View submission: Keanu Reeves - HELLO!
Keanu, what is the secret to happiness?
Comment by _KeanuReeves at 13/10/2014 at 15:24 UTC
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But I'm working on it.
Comment by Redline_BRAIN at 13/10/2014 at 17:48 UTC
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I got this one. It's balance. The drive to accomplish big things is awesome, but if all you do is work all the time, then that's no good. Spending time with what really matters in life, like you're family, is very important, but no one wants to just sit in a room with their family all day, every day. You need to get out and experience life, maybe some of those big things.
Sitting around and only playing video games for 10 years may have it's appeal and may be fun, but you'll be wishing you had been more productive. Not by anyone else's definition, but your own. You'll wish you had put more work into something and got to the see the fruits of your labor.
Opposite would be a typical workaholic. You could be proud of the promotions and all the money you make, or maybe you invent something wonderful. But if you don't do anything outside of that, do you want them to say at your funeral "this person made a lot of money, but too bad I never saw them or really knew them"?
So, it is the balance that will provide happiness. Too far in either direction and you won't be happy with yourself.
Therefore, my simple answer: balance.
Comment by Much_Karma at 13/10/2014 at 16:19 UTC
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I think you're asking the wrong person
Comment by opticon at 13/10/2014 at 16:15 UTC
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Comment by [deleted] at 13/10/2014 at 19:29 UTC
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How are you going to ask the world's saddest man the secret to happiness?
Comment by [deleted] at 13/10/2014 at 18:18 UTC
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Happiness is a perspective, man. You're as happy as you choose to be.
Comment by Megadoculous at 14/10/2014 at 03:23 UTC
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The secret to happiness, is to be happy. And I'm not trying to be cute.
Comment by endogenic at 13/10/2014 at 18:48 UTC
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The secret to happiness is that happiness has some conditions in order for it to come into being. Those conditions are diligence, frugality, and honesty. The reason this is the case is that a happy life is the life where you aren't hungry, worried, and lonely, and when you live with a bright mind. Those three conditions are the necessary things you have to practice in your life in order to get those results.
Comment by AlgernusPrime at 13/10/2014 at 16:46 UTC
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Being immortal.
