What Makes You Truly Happy? What Did You Lose Interest In?

Things I like

Sewing
Painting
Writing poetry
Bansuri practice (quite exhausting though)
Dressing nice

things I lost interest in

TV, esp Desi serials

Trying to approach people for friendship even though I don’t have chemistry with them (just to avoid feeling lonely)

Learning mother tongue. This I want to change. Perhaps I will try Hindi on Duolingo, it is more of a game. Or maybe I will try learning Punjabi again

Reading Guru Granth Sahib (this I want to change) I used to feel I was taken back to an ancient, innocent time in Sikh history with the repetitiveness of the verses, a time if peace.

before modern people polluted and twisted history fortheir own means


Whoa! That was an intense reply!

 

What makes me happy:

- Appreciation at work: especially whenever you are able to meet the dead-line with quality inputs. This is my daily pill.
But the awards, promotions & salary hikes excite me.

- Good food: It's been a while since I ate good food. It's been 6 months & I miss the taste of my home country.

Nothing here could please my taste buds. Sometimes, I even dream of eating my favorite Sri Lankan food. Going home on a break & I already have a list of food to catch up during this vacation.

- Kid's progress: I immensely feel happy about their achievements. Even a simple appreciation from their teacher or a certification at pre-school is enough for me to fly high.

- Buying decorative things for home & doing interiors: I am obsessed with this. I enjoy cleaning the house during the weekend & keep changing on the interiors. I enjoy shopping & buying things for the house.

- Siblings: They are my happy pills. My best friends & my pillars of support.
Talking to them, and planning everything with them like vacation together, buying similar dresses, gifts etc..etc... also make me happy

- Mom's pamper: I am extremely lucky to have mom live with me and to be able to enjoy her pampering even after marriage. Everything she does for me, makes me happy.


Things i don't care anymore:

- My H's love: I yearned to win his heart by loosing almost everything including my self respect and health in the past. Now that, he loves me, respects me, likes me, appreciates me. But I just lost interest in them. I don't care whether he loves me or not. I just take it as it comes.

- Gifts: I liked gifts a lot in the past. I always expected gifts on my special days. But I no longer expect or even like any gifts. I would rather buy my own gifts, and be selective in them.

- Movies/Cricket matches: I won't say I have completely lost interest in them. But definitely I am not as mad as I was before.

- Vacations: Other than going back to Sri Lanka & resting in my home, I don't value any other vacations worth the money we spend on them. I just lost interest in travelling & seeing new places.

- Festivals: After migrating with family, festivals are just another day for me. I have completely lost interest in celebrating festivals here.
Not sure whether I will get back the vibe if I go back to my home country during festivals time.

 

Very good thread to retrospect the self OP.

What makes me Happy
- Peace in my own space/home/people who I care and cared by.
- Plants and flowers
- Family trips and getaways.

What I don't care anymore
- Trying to fit in with the society.
- Please anyone or trying to be in touch just to keep the one side bridge.

 

Things that make me happy:

1. Filter coffee to start the day. If the strength is a bit less also it irks me. So I am very particular.
2. Reading a lot of books helps me maintain sanity.
3 . Going for walks in the mornings and nights. Nights I do miss at times but morning walk is my energy booster.
4. Driving my kids to school listening to latest songs and listening to their daily activities with them.
5. Cooking also enlightens my mood though would love to take breaks at times from cooking.

Things that I really don't care about:

1. Dressing up for functions or parties. I am a private person. Given a choice I would prefer not attending any.

2. Trying to invite people or go to their houses. Nowadays I don't really care. I don't feel like hosting people anymore.

3.Watching tv . I stopped nearly 10 years ago. I just don't really care these days. I really wonder how I used to watch TV during childhood. Now totally away from it. Programmes don't interest me anymore.

 

This is a very good thread. Keep posting similar innovative ideas.
Things that make me happy
1. Music. I love listening to all kinds of music. I also sing well. Love listening to old Hindi and Tamil songs. Equally enjoy Carnatic music also
2. Traveling. I love traveling and I have also travelled a lot.
3. Wearing different kinds of sarees. I have many sarees. But still I am tempted to buy.
4. Cooking and hospitality.
5. Yoga and fitness
6. Playing with children
7. Enjoying nature
What I don't care anymore
1. Watching TV
2. Going to theatres and watching movies. I don't remember when I last went to a theatre and watched movie

 

In life, especially in family life, every kind of happiness unfortunately follows the Law of Diminishing Utility. The degree of happiness that one derives gradually reduces with the event happening day after day. Sadness too tend diminish as day passes with other events upfront. That is why, OP CONSCIOUSLY added the word “Truly” in the title of the thread.

Anyways, I am always Happy to respond - daily to IL posts - and contribute anecdotes from my and others’ life / observation.
2. I feel truly happy, the moment I get some points to write a story from any source.
I am truly happy or glad as below:

3. Motivating positively others especially when they feel low or burdened makes me delectably happy. Rather I cease the opportunity to motivate others by telling suitable anecdote.
4. Instead of looking at half empty, I look to the half full of ...
5. Collaborating in kitchen with spouse always lead to happiness cause it allows scope for further improvement in refining responses.
6. When spouse or friend seeks help for chopping vegetables fine I get happiness.
7. Solving problems in maths, making strong decoction in separate filters one for peaberry and other for robusta in the morning before others at home wake’s up - a sure daily delight.
8. When daily food in time and regularly digested am happy!
9. When spouse delights me serving without spilling even a little liquid items of food on dinning table am happy.
10. When spouse & I sitting and eating by dinning table, midway she suggests to roast pappad for both - am happy.
11. When DW switch off bed room AC during vee hours am Happy.
12. When DW stitches a button as replacement in my shirt that is on my body, and when I was ready to leave for office.
13. Friday evenings dinner with onion-drumstick-sambar and hot onion-potato curry
14. Scent of jasmine waft through evening air
15. New and just laundered and pressed dresses
16. when I look at changed bed-spreads & pillow covers on mattress
17. The sound of caws of crows behind my bedroom window at dawn
18. The sight of ready traditional snacks like murukku, theynkuzhal, mixture
19. The sight of hopping, zig-zag flying crows and doves in the evening at my terrace for the snacks I throw
20. When spouse makes ghee from cooking butter
21. When traditional meal with numerous dishes served on wide fresh banana leaf
22. When kulfi served in matka.
23 a drive at night to a ice cream parlour and enjoying with spouse varieties of
Ice cream or alternatively jilebi with badam milk
24. Happy early-morning-plays against spouse shuttle cock with nets in our back yard and terrace as well.
25. Happy scooting in Buddha Jayanthi Park (Delhi) with spouse as pillion
( lambretta she bought raising loan from bank)
26. In cold season in Delhi, eating spoonful after spoonful looking at spouse, Hot Carrot halwa with dry fruits-nuts generously sprinkled.
27. Summer early morning walk on shore with spouse waves often wetting our foot.
28. Travel always with sound plans I enjoy with family. By rail-road is special.
Flights to Goa and return by ship to Mumbai (mazagon) . Boating for hours
At Pichavaram Mangrove Forest, et al. .....
29. Watching ipl, listening to old box office movies hit songs in Hindi Tamil and English,
30. I follow this song *
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I am unable to list anything in which I have lost interest
There is more to happiness and it is rightly said it is state of Mind.

 

Ref#8 point no.3 read as seize instead cease!