A lot of my coworkers are on depression and/or anxiety meds, when we have work meetings or pot lucks the general consensus is they are terribly unhappy. I understand clinical depression (was a mental health clinician for 15 years), but I'd say only two of them meet that criteria (out of 20), so the rest just seem miserable because they hate their jobs, home life, spouse, lack of money, their kids, the weather, etc.

I'm a basically happy person, my go to emotion is happy and I smile a lot. My coworkers used to comment that even when my mom was sick I seemed to be okay more often than not. Makes me wonder, what makes us happy?

For me, being head over heels in love even after almost 25 years, knowing who I am and what my place is in the world and be willing to alter that if my well being is impacted, and generally enjoying the hell out of things. My honey refers to me as "child like" much of the time, I'll stop the car and get out to go look at something cool, I dance in my chair at work while I listen to music, I sing, grin when things tickle me... I keep attributing it to getting older and not caring what other people think, although I've been this way a long time.

How about you, what makes you happy?