Have you ever cried because of happiness?

no, but nearly

Yes!

Yep, a couple or few times a year. Usually during very spiritual moments.

Yep

Only watching movies. Not in real life.

yes i have a few times.

A few times - it's overwhelming...

My sister has studied under voice coaches for years. At two of her biggest performances (a recital and my wedding), I was moved to tears because I really believe she has the voice of an angel.

oh yes...how refreshing and cleansing it felt. felt better than an orgasim...awesome

You stole my survey idea

Sure one time that I can think of is when ASBT asked me to marry him.

Too late

Who hasn't?

Hey, bond_girl. Haven't seen you around for awhile. Welcome back. I'm so happy I could cry.

I haven't

Really?? It's really quite an experience. You must LET it happen -- allow yourself this pleasure if only once.

Yes, I think so. I certainly cried when I got my exam results last year and I got a bit teary when I found out I'd got into Oxford.

I've read very happy descriptions of feelings or scenes that have touched me so much that I've cried.

each time one of my babies was born, and oh yeah, at my wedding

Oh yes.

YES...
-When I met Mike
-When he asked me to marry him
-When we got married
-When he surprised me and got me off from work and took me to a bed and breakfast for Valentine's Day
-After I gave birth to Ethan...AFTER were the tears of joy...AFTER..
-When Mike and I have experienced something powerfully spiritual together
-When I heard Ethan say "ma ma" for the 1st time
-When Ethan does ANYTHING for the 1st time!
-Any time I listen to certain songs...especially "The Painters" by Jewel ( I think that's what the song is called anyway...it's on her "Pieces of You" album...It more like a 'happy-sad'...
-blah...I could go on...maybe later..

It was happy relief more than anything else.

Pent-up stress released in the form of tears, scaring the hell out of everyone around me

Oh I get so soggy at weddings... and other times too, it happens.

yes

A few times... I cryed when I saw my boyfriend (X now) for the first time after he had left for the military. It had been 3 months and the moment I saw his face I burst into tears. I cried when I graduated, When my best friends older sister got married, when my best friends son was born ... There's a few other times I just can't think of them now

a few times

Yes lots of times, but I always find a way to screw it up so I can have something to laugh about!

Yes, I have cried tears of joy several times. It seems to always have my son involved. He'll do or say something that makes me cry tears of joy. After not seeing him for a week, while on a trip to Nebraska, I cried because I missed him. When I got back to home, he and my parents picked me up from the airport and I cried because I was so happy to see him. That was the longst I'd ever been away from him. That was probably the most recent time I cried because of happiness. That was in April.

Hey you! Where have you been??

Watching the football!!!!

When World Cup is on, I hide!!!

Ah! Now I wanna cry

You let it all out, girl. There, there, now. Doesn't that feel much better?

Well, am I going to be seeing more of you around now?

Maybe....I have been quite apathetic towards Survey Central recently but I am getting back into it.........slowly

Good... It wouldn't be the same with out you

You reckon?

Of course. You're one of the only people who really talks to me here...

When I worked at the humane society, I cried many times when an animal was adopted.

yeah

This week. Countless times. Plus the opposite. Plus both at once.
I'm growing so fast my heart may pop, my mind may burst, my soul might implode and all this comes out as water from my eyebolls(Mallory's 2nd grade spelling of eyeballs which I prefer to the other).

Sure, lots of times. I am an emotional girl!

no..

#1: Over the past few years and months, I was more and more desenistized.

#2: I am a drifter, I just go from one place to another, (not literary) one person to the next, just staring emotionlessly into space.

#3: I was really never that happy.

You are whatever you believe you are.

If you're also what you eat, then does that mean you believe you are what you eat? That would make me rice noodles at the moment.

I'm a cranberry muffin!!!!!!

i'm oatmeal and coffee! but when lion gets up i'll probably be buckwheat pancakes! otay!

so what should I beleive? ...

Right now I'm turning into a strawberry!

Your highest thought of yourself. You'll catch a glimmer of it occasionally, however fleeting. Imagine the best scenario of yourself, who you know you can be, who you could be that would fulfill you the most and try it. I like to imagine how someone truly deeply in love with me would see me, and see myself with such love and forgiveness. Put on your rose coloured glasses and look in the mirror.

When I found out that I was pregnant with my third child.
When my children were born.
When I got married the second time around.
When I got my first big raise.
When I got a job that I had been trying to get for a long time.
When I saw my brother again after several years.
When I went back too Hawaii & saw my long lost relatives.
When my oldest & middle child graduated from High school.
When I held my first born grand child.

oh, what if you dont have a highest thought of yourself, but instead, a multiple views each with its own high points and low points, and you cant figure out who "you really are."

On a rare occassion.

Love'll do that to you!

Yes

SMOOTCH!!!

Happiness?? Not at the moment

Why the sad face?

I've cried, I've screamed, I've fainted ... My version of happiness has often looked like unhappiness ... lol

I was in the middle of my exams. But today I finished and I'm very happy!!!!!

I CRIED WHEN I FOUND OUT I WAS HAVING TWINS B/C I WAS SO HAPPY

I am a twin

Is this quite an old comment or are you still up (1:20am on the 29th June)?

Sorry, not that old. It is 10:48pm on thw 29th now

You up?

Yeah!

I won superior ratings at a band competition and when I saw the scores posted on the door and there was my name with two superiors I started jumping up and down yelling and crying with happiness lol. That's the only time I could think of.

do not cry under any circumstances, death, pain, sadness, I laugh instead. weird or what?

Hebuphrenic schizophrenia. not that rare. means you're probably a deeply sensitive but buried person, not prepared to deal in public with such feelings. Do you ever cry in private?

No, never cry. Can't, last time was when I buried one of my cats 11 years ago. Was very broken up over that. Mom died 2 years ago. Did not cry or feel any sadness.

Try getting drunk and watching a disney movie. or revisiting things like your mom just before you sleep, willing to wake up in tears. You've built a wall, and it takes practice with the trivial things before you can graduate to having emotions face to face with people. When you can, you will feel alive. It's good to have your emotions under control of your intelligent wisdom, but the emotions still need to exist in their own plane to be reconciled. For the time being, just encouraging them to surface would constitute part of that being in wise control. In the case of your mom, you simply didn't feel. It's not that there wasn't anything to feel. She meant more than your cat, and you know it. Some day you will feel it. It took years for my divorce to finally catch up with me. I'm much more at peace being able to talk with my ex-wife cognizant of all that she's meant to me, and accepting all the changes since then. We wouldn't have a strong relationship now if I was still carrying on (believing) as if it never mattered to me. Knowing what you really feel is an important life management tool. For some of us, that doesn't come naturally and requires strength and practice. Life will pass you by if you don't care for it. What sort of music do you listen to?

I wouldn't necessarily say people are worth more than my cats. I can't think of many who are worth more to me than my cats.
Hmm, if you read my other survey responses I avoid music because of my OCD. Up to 3 songs playing in my head simultaneously. When I do it's mainly blues, Van Halen, Beatles, The Who, etc. Blues is my overall favorite because of my guitar playing background. Not because I'm down.

I like to play blues, surf punk, classical. I have a style like sculpting synthesiser sounds from the way my hands both brush over the fretboard and slur chords, tap out melodies.. Your taste in music is archaic. When I broke out of my pure rut style life, I stopped having songs going through my head. My mind is now full of the moment, and I seldom hear the same songs twice, listening to ecclectic channels, and hearing reflections of a mind that constantly moves on. I notice that at times I will digress, in which case my habits, music, cooking, choice of clothes, will all resemble what I was going through during a similar period of life. When I break through a lifestyle, I need to break through most of it at once, otherwise various aspects will pull me back to a familiar pattern. I will listen to music like yours at times, but it will pull me back to a time where lust and car repairs were my motivations. Cats are in your comfort zone of emotional communication. Have you ever tried breaking through an entire lifestyle paradigm? Religions use it when they have you go through a diet change, give up your vices, vow of silence, service, etc. It can turn your whole world view around.

Of course! I do this all the time. Well, occaisionally anyway. I fall in love easily, you see.

I don't feel that a person's taste in music should necessarily change or 'mature'. What gets your blood going is what I judge my tastes by. I enjoy a wide taste in music overall, from 40's big band music, 50's groups, all the 60's types mentioned previously, I love disco music, of course guitar blues is the best. I cannot tolerate country musci, and the modern crap on the radio these days. I listen to yahoo launchcast all day at work and it keeps throwing me these sickening punk, hard rock, nonsense rap, and other useless tunes. I have no problem you calling my tastes archaic. I'll stick to what I like, thanks. (If you want arcaic, my wife's favorites are Doris Day, Judy Garland, etc.)

I love all that too. I've been building quite a diverse vinyl collection these past couple years. Unfortunately many of my favorites as a teen are collectors items costing $35 or so (Things like Pink Floyd's UmmaGumma or X's Los Angeles). I have all sorts of Joan Baez, Morrison, Paul Simon. Sometimes I getinto that blood pumping, but other times it just makes me feel like I'm living a museum exhibit. In which case groups like Manson, Godhead, Mia Del Toid will pull me out of my limbo. A third of my collection is now classical. Some of that can get passionate when you play along, but so often I feel trying out new composers that I'm in some centuries old morgue. Blood pumping stopped being my music motivation a few years ago. I think I even picked up Doris Day in 'the singing nun' lately (because I identified with the nun on the vespa carrying a guitar), but haven't listened to it yet. If archaic works for you, fine. For me it's an indication my whole life has stopped evolving. I've always liked the blues, but I don't think I truly played them until that night I was travelling homeless in Santa Monica, couldn't reach my sleeping gear and belongings because it was past the oceanwview patio of a restauraunt that stayed open late that night (I figured if I was down to sleeping on the streets, I might as well have the royal palatial version), so I was stuck on the mall playing harmonica in a skimpy black cocktail dress and heels on a foggy drizzling night with a bunch of winos. When the restaurant finally closed, security had found my stuff. I told them I had set it aside when shopping, and they found and returned it to me, no problem. Living on the road was intense. I learned so much during that time. Ruts weren't possible in that existence.

I hope to be crying because of happiness on Thursday. Please, please, please, please, please!

Well..?

It's not Thursday yet!

Part of me wishes Thursday would hurry up and come, part of me hopes it never does.

Exam results, bleagh!

Oh, that Thursday.

Yup