Help!!! How do I find joy in life????
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The only thing I can say to you is that you have to find joy in the small things that happen. A beautiful flower or sunset, hearing a child laugh, a kindness done for you by another person. If you wait around for the "big things" to bring you joy - ie; winning the lottery, marrying rich, becoming a movie star - you won't ever be happy because those things just don't "happen" in real life. Okay, sometimes they do, but rarely, ya know? Sometimes it's going to be a minute to minute thing, but you have to make yourself look for something positive, make yourself find one thing that makes you happy - even for just a minute. I know.
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GO TO CHURCH.... EASIEST WAY TO GET SOMEONE WHO IS TRYING TO REBUILD THEIR LIFE ON A POSITIVE NOTE JUST LIKE YOU.... SOMEONE WHO DOESN;T WANT DRAMA WHO WANTS SOMEONE TO JUST LOVE THEM.... GOOD LUCK GOD BLESS
475648
find a couple small things that give you joy, and set aside time for yourself each day to do them - maybe as simple as walking quietly on some path by your house, or painting.\n\nFind ways to connect with other people in a social setting - take a community ed pottery class or something.\n\nFind a group of people who are worse off than you and volunteer some time to help them.\n\nJoin a support group for people going through a divorce.
999682
Learn to appreciate the little things in life for example, walking on a beach with out shoes, feeling hate sand between your toes, driving down the highway holding your hand outside and feeling the breeze in your hands, looking in the sky and realizing, your but one person on earth and enjoy the little things on this huge planet.................. worked for me  another one,,,, looking at another person smile caused by non other than you.......... you make a difference in whatever you do..............\n\n                                                                          shane
255098
Choose to be happy.  Get out of bed and decide right then that it's going to be a great day, even if it might not be.  I bet your attitude will change and life will begin to be happy as a rule.
1023375
Start tithing.\n\nYou'll find yourself working and budgeting to give back the first fruits of what you make  rather than to be unsatisfied with senseless purchases.  You will derive TRUE happiness from knowing you are helping others, and find yourself with less of an urge to purchase stuff to be happy.\n\nPray about it...see what you think.
644858
Maybe all your joy and happiness is not outside yourself, but within yourself.  Seek for some empowerment through the tools of your own consciousness (visualization, meditation, affirmation) and it will amaze you how much you are in touch with yourself.
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be strong in who you are and thank God for everything hes given you.\nlove yourself for who you are, and know God loves you even more.\nIf you live your life worrying about what other people think, you will never find happiness.\n\n be happy & love yourself!\nI think your great just the way you are, but when you love yourself first, people will see you differently.
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You are the only one who can decide if your own life is fulfilling.  It you are happy with the way you are living, then don't worry about it.  If, on the other hand, you are unhappy or lonely, then force yourself to join groups, volunteer, or go out by yourself.  If you do something you are interested in, you'll find new friends and new hobbies that will interest you even more. Good luck!
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You find it yourself, honey.\n\nBut for me? Be happy, love, experience everything you want to (unless it hurts people) because you only live once.\n\nx
225416
find something relaxing and do it...like yoga. just calm down slowly and think of positive things in your life.
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Do what gives you the highest joy.\n\nOh, yes and ...\n"Feel the fear and do it anyway"
561971
WELL YOU HAVE TO FIND SOMETHING YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT.  YOU SEEM A LITTLE DEPRESSED ALSO, LIKE YOU HAVE NOT ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING, BUT WHAT YOU DONT REALIZE IS YOU HAVE PROBABLY DONE A LOT MORE THAN MANY OTHERS IN THIS CRAZY WORLD...YOU NEED TO LOOK DEEP INSIDE YOURSELF AND FIND SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.  I SUGGEST VOLUNTEER WORK WITH AN ORGANIZATION THAT MEANS SOMETHING TO YOU.  THAT WOULD BE A GREAT START!  AND AS FAR AS A JOB GOES...YOU GOTTA PAY THE BILLS SO WHAT IF YOU DONT LOVE YOUR JOB RIGHT NOW...STOP WHINING ABOUT IT AND MAKE THE BEST OF IT UNTIL SOMETHING BETTER COMES ALONG...YOU ARE NOT ANY DIFFERENT FROM THE REST OF US....NO ONE IS EVER 100% HAPPY ALL THE TIME...YOU NEED TO LEARN TO DEAL WITH LIFE'S LITTLE CURVE-BALLS AND MAKE THE BEST OF WHAT YOU HAVE TODAY!!
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I'll always reward myself with little present, spend myself to watch moving "egg: funny movie, meaning full movie", get a close friend go traveling...etc. but what important is yourself must think positively, make yourself happy, do the thing that can make yourself happy. if you can switch your mood positively. go to find a good book to "clean" your sad & lonly heart. Be happy, coz there r still someone care about you.
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It is in this world. Go out and look for it. Look for it in the faces of smiling children. Look for joy, real joy. Not people pretending to be happy or gaining pleasure from the suffering of others. I picked up babies not so long ago, who had lost their mothers and craved a little tender loving care. Just helping them get clean and making them feel loved brought a divine feeling of love to them and to me.
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hey, hello :)\nseems like you know you have some issues to overcome, i say you are almost there!\ndon't be miserable. everyone goes through this kind of emotions @ least once in our lifetime.\ni know this feeling too. sometimes, you feel so empty, miserable & unworthy. and every time,when you try to take 1 step forward, you end up taking 2 steps backward.\ntry to start a routine of exercizing, mix with positive people & read joke books.\ndon't ever indulge in self-pity & regrets. the darkest hours are just before dawn. life is a grindstone; and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what stuff he's made of.\nif you really look around you, everyone has problems too. what makes them happy is that they try to overcome their problems one @ a time.
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Dont you have any friends to hang out with?  What about hobbies?  What do you do on the weekends?  When you grow up, your life will be pretty much the same as it is now but with work unless you do something yourself to change it.  And since you have very philisophical questions, I recommend talking to your minister who can better answer them for you.  Your life is not pitiful.  Its what you make of it.  If you want to be happy, do something happy.  If you want to be sad, then sit there and do nothing.  Your choice.