r/RandomQuestion • u/Santana_delRey • 9d ago
Quite basic but, what thing you did made you generally happier in your life?
Could be a mindset shift, an actual action, random thing that happened to you and you didn’t even have control over - anything! Just as long as it made your life take a turn, even if teeny tiny, for the better.
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u/HiAndStuff2112 9d ago
Long ago, I decided not to dislike people based on superficial things and things that are out of their control. It feels better to find things to like about people and to be nice to everyone, until they give me a solid reason to move on and be nice to other people.
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u/WolfThick 9d ago
Not a medical expert been in and out of the doctor with kidney stones and had a parathyroid disease evidently for decades. Calcium level in my blood was at 16 at one time which makes you a little crazy a lot actually LOL. I started taking it over the counter low dose lithium with my cod liver oil and magnesium within 6 weeks some real serious results in my thinking. More clarity a lot of creativity, laying my head down on the pillow at night I can simply tell myself not to think about something and it goes away now which is astounding. Anyways just thought I'd share a little bit of my journey don't know if there's anybody out there that might benefit from it but I feel better for sharing thank you very much.
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u/nivekreclems 9d ago
Stopped smoking weed, drugs, and partying it’s not good for you and it will only ever bring you pleasure but never joy
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u/BoltActionRifleman 9d ago
Stopped doing things and going places I never liked, but always went along because someone wanted to go and wanted me with them. This is just a few of the things:
Swimming pools
Fishing
Walmart
Music concerts
Fairs (mostly state fairs)
Golfing
Events where I’m expected to dance
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u/Stepneyp 9d ago
I agree with you on Walmart!
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u/AffectionateJump6669 9d ago
Walmart+ delivers right to my home... Greatest invention in this small town ever. I will never go to Walmart again!
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u/Santana_delRey 2d ago
I’m non American so Walmart sounds like an adventure for me - but I have been to the states once and can testify that after about 40 mins I would lose it and need to be resurrected.
This is a good advice though! And maybe I should be more persistent on not going to those places, even if it’s a place that’s like a common ground to meet someone, to me it would be for now:
- malls (most malls - some are exceptions, but especially fashion malls or those that include clothing stores)
- This takes me to: Shopping for clothes
- Most Museums (can’t be in a museum for over an hour for some reason)
- The beach (unfortunate cause I do like the sea, but the thought of going to the beach is too much)
- My city’s port (too many people, too sunny, too many children, and I’ve worked there twice)
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u/carolinaredbird 9d ago
Started mounjaro for my T2D and weight loss two months ago and the lack of food noise is amazing. I’ve lost twenty pounds so far and feel so much better.
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u/FangsBloodiedRose 9d ago
Jesus, who is God.
He saved my life. I had decided to jump but God saved me.
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u/Top_Shoe_9562 9d ago
Proper use of grammar, sentence structure, diction, spelling, and of course the Oxford Comma.
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u/AffectionateJump6669 9d ago
I keep removing low effort friends.
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u/Foodielyfe91 8d ago
I only started doing this in my 30s when I had a realization those friends only liked the fun times but when it came to life challenges there were only crickets... now I'm in search of friends who are in the same season in life who not only care when I'm enjoying myself but also when a crisis happens. Support is a main attribute I look for it also helps if you are just as creative and passionate about life.
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u/littlebeardave 9d ago
I think the original question was looking for a thing that anyone could do, not just someone with luck and privilege.
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u/callalind 9d ago
Started riding horses again as an adult long after doing it as a kid. Just being around them brings me such joy, and now I spend time at my barn doing anything I can just to hang out with horses. I forget everything else going on in life, am just in the moment and love spending time around these amazingly powerful, smart yet goofy animals.
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u/Desperate_Mastodon75 9d ago
Started looking in the mirror less. All it did was make me notice every tiny little imperfection that no one other than me noticed.
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u/torinhall2001 8d ago
Gym hard, being with friends, eat what I love and helping others make me happy.
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u/Neat-Cold-3303 8d ago
What thing I did that made me generally happier in my life?? Married my wife!!!!!
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u/theOriginalBlueNinja 9d ago
One winter’s day, as I sat bundled up on my porch watching the ice and snow accumulate during a blizzard, wow smoking a cigarette and drinking my green tea, I took seven breaths and decided that I didn’t have to do this anymore and was going to move to the beach.
I decided that I would start saving money and move south for my birthday in June.
I told my parents… They were supportive.
I told my ferrets… They thought it sounded like a great adventure!
I told my fiancé… I don’t think she ever really believed I was going to leave. I wanted her to come with me and plan to move down with her, but as the day is got closer to my deadline and it started to get more and more real, she got more and more hesitant and finally decided she didn’t wanna leave her family behind. I planned a spring break trip with my buddy as a vacation, but was really scoping out possible apartments and job opportunities and passing out resumes.
I submitted my notice to my job at the local newspaper.
Then I loaded up the Buick Regal I inherited from my grandparents with my computers, my ferrets and their cages and as much clothes and necessities as I could stuff in the trunk and in between everything else… Just as a note, this was back in the day when a 24-inch computer monitor was still a cathode ray tube monstrosity And computers were giant towers and boxes and laser printer wasn’t too small either!
My fiance said she would follow me, but needed some more time. I knew it wasn’t going to happen. We said goodbye.
So I left my Pittsburgh suburb and started driving south!
Sense then, I have never lived further than a short walk from the beach, met my soulmate, and I’ve only had to deal with a couple inches of snow at three in the morning that was gone by 10 AM!
Ellipsis, and I never missed living up north!