Are you really happy or just pretend to be?
by 
PerfectlyFlawed.
ANSWERS: 52
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I am really happy.
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I pretend a lot. Pain can do that to a person.
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I am a happy person. I am usually a very happy person!!!
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I'm really happy except for when I pretend to be. ; )
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Want to know the truth. A lot of the time when I am pissed off or upset or depressed, I come on AB, answer for hours and feels lots better. This is my anti-depressant. At least it works for me. Most of the time I am happy tho. I am easily readable so it is hard to pretend, but I have pretended to be happy at social functions when I really rather not be there.
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I barely even pretend to be happy...
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I'm happy in general, not tonight but I am usually very happy
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I pretend to be and everybody knows it, but won't say anything. Maybe its that look i give evrybody?
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I have been happier.... AB can can help get my mind away from things. I guess you can call it pretending, because I don't walk around with a sad face 24/7 but inside doesn't feel like the joy I once had.....
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No pretending here..
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I usually pretty happy because I choose to be. It really is a choice.
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im a really happy person
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Neither.
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when I am happy I am really happy but I admit that many times i have painted a happy face to make people think I am happy when i am not.
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My family is from Japan so we're taught to keep potentially harmful thoughts to ourselves. Sure, sometimes I defy them and do a little gossipping, but for the most part, I keep my feelings to myself. So, when I'm upset, I try to keep a happy face on and no one can tell the difference except my closest friends. The rest of them thought I was happy for the whole time when I was mostly continuously sad for the last 5 years.
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i pretend
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Yes, I am. I always try to stay positive, from the moment I wake up. If I am feeling a little off, just by thinking about being happy and forcing myself to only think positive, I can gain it back. I just look on the bright side of things. If people are a b it surly or something, I try to think of it as that they are just having a bad day or they really didn't mean it. I am a worrier but I still do okay because I feel better being happy. I love to laugh and smile and it's infectious. You smile and someone else does, that makes you smile more and the next thing you know, you are both feeling pretty good. But this doesn't man I don't have blue moments or depression doesn't affect me. It does at times. And it's not easy for me to get out of when I'm there but my inside happiness fights to come back out, thankfully.
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I am content to be on this Earth My days filled with reaching for stars I am content to live without love for no one has reached me thus far I am content to live out my days in the life I have made to be mine I am happy to be given the chance to live it one day at a time.
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I am relatively secure, content and comfortable with myself. Though things don't always go smoothly, or exactly the way I would like..yes, I am happy.
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I'm pretty happy. I hope everyone else can be as well.
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I think I don't PRETEND to be happy, I think I TRY to be happy. I seize every opportunity that would make me happy. =)
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I am pretty happy... The only place that I rarely pretend to be happy is at work... Just because I have to be nice even if the customer is being a total ***hole!!!
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neither one.
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I'm a lousy actress and/or pretender..so if I am happy, it shows..if I'm not so happy, I just get very quiet and stay to myself until I can get back to being me..that me is happy most all the time.:)
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I am sometimes happy... I usually make myself hyper to block feeling bad out, but I'm not good at pretending to be happy.
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I am really happy, because for all I know this is it my one shot at life and I'm not going to waste a moment of living. But there are things that are so unbearably sad that I feel like they have scorched my soul and it is really hard for a little while to find my happiness again.
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Pretty much just pretend when I think people will still buy it!
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Pretend, to avoid therapy.
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Just remember to Fake it till you make it!!
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I am happy. At least I try to be. A lot of people where I live always say I'm too happy, and they try to shoot me down and make me sad. I can get, but I don't always get sad. Mainly, I am happy.
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I am not always happy(although I am quite often), but I should always be joyful, even when not happy. Joy is internal and does not go by circumstance, oppossed to happiness which is external and goes by circumstances and conditions. I hope that this helps. :) -In the Master's service. Thank you and God bless you!
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I'm actually pretty happy right now, but I have and often do pretend to be happy. I don't like to put my problems on other people. Usually, though, when I'm online I can be a lot more open about them, and I don't pretend. Today was a pretty great day, and so was yesterday. I'm hoping for a whole week of happiness, so we'll see how that goes.
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I usually just "pretend" or at least try... I don't want to cause a stir. But I can be happy, but all in all I'm not happy... but I'm not miserable either.
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Both. But I try not to pretend to myself or to people who I know really care or could help me become happier. I'm doing pretty good right now though. :)
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I'm happy, life is too short not to be... :-)
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I have been trying to make myself happy.
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Depends on the time and the day and what I'm doing and so on.... it's an on again off again thing. No one can be happy all the time, or we'd have no idea what happy was really. Do I make any sense?
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Im usually Happy!
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I pretend while looking for something to laugh about, then smile.
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I pretend.
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I am basically happy. Though circumstances in life sometimes inspire unhappiness, i don't let it overwhelm me or take hold on me for too long :)
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Neither. ;-)
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Pretending to be... I just don't agree we should all go merry-go-lucky all the time.
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Am I really ANYTHING, or do I just pretend to be?
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life sometimes happens to you while your busy making plans. In a famous document written by Thomas Jefferson he listed the Pursuit of Happiness so I don't think being happy is something that just comes to you. It's like anything else sometimes you just have to work harder at getting happy. Ask any couple who have been together for any length of time. Are they really happy with each other 24/7 maybe when they first meet. But when that wears off if you don't work at being happy together and you end up pretending your just cheating each other out of honesty and intimacy. We as americans have become lazy from our microwave state of mind if we don't get what we want fixed immediately we just throw it away or we pretend nothing is wrong. It's time for us all to wake up before it's too late.
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i think i convince myself that i'm happy, and i surround myself with people so i can distract myself from my unhappiness. but i do think i am happy, or am i just a good enough liar that i can lie to myself? dillusional? who knows. i feel happy.
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I am pretending to be upset.
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...normally--I pretend to be really happy! :b
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I am pretty happy, I have my down moments now and again, but I can usually shake those pretty easy! I just start thinking about things that are ahead and I am once again happy. Right now I am bursting with happiness. =D
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Everyone wears a "Put on a happy mask" Everyone
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Most of the time I am reasonably happy. But sometimes I do pretend. +5
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I'm really happy most of the time. And when I'm not I don't fake it.
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