never underestimate a childs words, i remember at a camp when i was a councelor i asked a 7 year old to close his eyes and ask if god had anything to tell him,
he has a funny expression on his face, then says god told me to love my brother.
cuz they were fighting for the past couple days.
You couldnāt have developed a deep personality without having been happy for a while, you learn to be deep by experiencing what makes you happy and translating it to words and gestures for other people to come and follow your trails.
They could be thankful the sun is shining, or that there are soup kitchens and shelters, or the dollar a person just gave them. Or you can be thankful for what you donāt have; blindness, sickness, paralysis. Thereās always something you just have to change your perspective. 
I think there is a lot to be said for keeping those around you as happy as possible. Worrying if you are happy yourself often leads to self-fulfilling depression. I usually just hope I can manage my small responsibilities and still have some fun now and then. Some people work hard and play hard and thatās great, but I canāt be like them and maintain my health.
Also found this in my old filesā¦
I think Caroline was right about life not being worth living when you are homeless? misery and then death and hopefully Heaven. hope. for me anywaysā¦if I was homeless.
my grandmother used to say āpeople are only as happy as they want to beā.
And now for a corny songā¦
I try to monitor my thoughts to keep them from getting too dark, because my cousin and my great grandfather lost their lives to suicide. I just donāt want to take that risk. I try to go deep with philosophy and art, not negative stuff.
I get there, but I try to guide myself out before it gets me down. Iām not always happy, just level.
I donāt think happiness changes your personality much. I think it is what the person has when they start. Some personality disorders sour things.
@metime I am so sorry to hear of your losses. that must be really tough I would think. I live with shame and guilt from my attempts and I pray daily that God will forgive me for that.
Thank you. I bet He does forgive us for our attempts.
**I think acceptance is what were really striving for....with that comes happiness, peace, and contentment. For all the horrors in the world---we cant have all the answers-but we can try to do our best to change things.
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I really enjoy how kids just say what is in their head.
Adults have to be polite and not offendā¦ Keep up appearancesā¦
Kids can just ask the questions that everyone else is thinkingā¦ or just say it how they see it.
I love being an Uncle.
That certainly appliesā¦in fact without being deep i donāt think I would be happy.
that is if we are understanding deep to be intense, searching out ādeepā things, knowing deep thingsā¦even looking deep into simple thingsā¦
Deep being the opposite of superficial - people who donāt see beyond what they see in a strictly materialist and literal sense.
A line from a song I did in 1999ā¦
āWhat do you see when you look at your world?
I think you see superficially,
Well, try to see deepā¦ā