Why can't we appreciate what we have?

Question:Shouldn't true happiness come from appreciating simple yet very important things like good health, family relationships, food, water and having a place to live? I know you all know this, but how often do you give it thought?

Of course I'm not saying I always appreciate such things like I should. I fall victim to what society says I should have to make me happy... marriage, getting laid, money etc. Society's hooked on these things. You take them away and most people will never be happy without them.

Damn life's depressing.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Shouldn't true happiness come from appreciating simple yet very important things like good health, family relationships, food, water and having a place to live? I know you all know this, but how often do you give it thought?

Of course I'm not saying I always appreciate such things like I should. I fall victim to what society says I should have to make me happy... marriage, getting laid, money etc. Society's hooked on these things. You take them away and most people will never be happy without them.

Damn life's depressing.

True Happiness happens whenever we are not judging anything.

Any time that you are not judging you are happy.

The moment that you start judging, you find something to be unhappy about.

It really is that simple.

Love and blessings Don

I do, I've worked for everything I have and I appreciate every thing in there

yeah, sometimes life sucks
but its only our nature to want more
we only start appreciating what we have or had when we lose it, bad lesson to learn when you want happiness

Because we're materialistic!

TV is the biggest pusher for things. Peer pressure in school and how can a guy just resist something with lots of gadgets?

If you want to become realistic and get away from materialism. Go visit a third world country and you will come home and just give most of your stuff away.

I think being an ego makes everyone unhappy. Being an ego makes you feel everything negative, lonely, defensive, upset, whatever, and empty. It's the ego's feeling of being empty that we try to fill, but in filling the emptiness with whatever and with experiences makes the ego feel even more separate and empty. Life isn't depressing, having an ego and feeling separate, empty and alone is what is depressing. Life just is what it is.

It'll never be enough. No matter what it is, we will need more and more of it. Well, we do need to stop eating while we are full, so we stop. Later on, we'll eat again. Happiness, we need lots of it. The more is the better. Too much of a good thing can be bad? Fact or fiction? Well, too much of happiness is not a such thing. I've never heard of too much of happiness before. well, someone may be jealous of you, and tell you to calm down...it happens.

Man's nature is to always want bigger and better from what we have, and once we get what we want to, then we want better from that, because what we want is apart from what we get used to. all man is looking for is action and adventure, somehting different, but the sooner you accept the fact that everything gets boring after a while, then the more money youll save and the happier youll be because youll knwo your in good financial position

If you lived out alone somewhere on a deserted island, then what you said in your first sentence would be correct. We unfortunately live here, and all the people around you will tell you that if you aren't striving for THINGS, then you are simply a loser. I wish we didn't have money, I hate money, it creates more problems then it's worth.

most are too busy appreciating what others have......life is not depressing, the pressure is depressing. Sounds to me like you need a change of perspective. I appreciate what I have because I have lost it all more than once.....I see others and see their debt, their uselessness without their things, its funny to me, simple pleasures mean the most.....

Sin, cause greed.

You're right because society's taught us that way. If we're successful, we'll be happy. (What's successful for your society? They're the keyword that bring you happiness.) The other reasons are because we compare ourself with the other when we see they're happy we're envy. We want to have what they have.

We're human. We're always making a mistake.

Little things lead to happiness, big things lead to complication. if someone has a hope of a better life then the one he or she has, it gives that person inner peace and contentment which can make the person happy even in troubled times.

i appreciate what i have everyday and throughout the day...i always remember where i come from...how life was growing up and somehow we always made it through...i write a journal of gratetitude each day...keeps me thoughtful! Hugs!

because most human beings are easily dazzled by frills and bells and whistles. so they see something, that pleads to this characteristic, if it's something you can buy, it was purposely designed to be that way along with the clever marketing to help sell that illusion. then once you get it, it becomes what it is and you get bored with it, all the flash and frills and allure count for nothing, and the next dazzling thing replaces it.

but not all human beings are this way. in order to not be though, you need to not be fooled by their clever jedi mind tricks, and see things for truly what they are.

I don't think people wouldn't be happy without the things society pushes on them, they just think they wouldn't be.

but they are addicted to those things, so if you take them away cold turkey they would have withdrawal issues.

you know people might say that smoking is a bad addictive habit because it can kill you, so they put warning labels on the packages.

but truly mankind is addicted to technology and all of mankind will die from it, and they never put any warning labels on the packages.

Because we do not know what we lack.