Ask HN: What makes you happy in life?

Independence, being in great physical shape, and sharing as many meals as possible with friends. Having interesting friends outside of tech. Enough money to never worry about money, which varies widely from person to person. Never, ever worrying about hierarchies of any sort.

I need to fit this in here somehow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI

(Note: That's what I want, not necessarily what I have atm.)

People reaching out to me to do things instead of me reaching out to them.

The big physical hormonal events — sex, food, muscle contractions, sleep, endocannabinoid ingestion.

That’s it. When I make happiness any more complicated than that, it instantly begins to elude me.

But when I take happiness down to those basic elements — I’m happy :)

Sitting by the fire with my feet up. Tea. Coffee. A good book. My dog. Music. Klipschorns. Watching children discover something new. Tutoring. Walking in the woods. Napping.

To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.