I don’t mean like how happy you are today. I mean overall, are you satisfied with everything you are up until this point? For me, for an example, I have a decent job that keeps my head just above water. I have a loving family that I see every couple months or weeks. I have the freedom to do what I want, when I want. But, overall, I’m sort of lonely and exhausted from constantly working. So, on a scale of 1 to 10, I’m about a 6.
Probably about a 7. I need more time, space, and security and there are some choices that I made that were correct but cost me things I did value, but overall I have a happy marriage, good friends, a nice community, a decent career that I haven’t fucked up too badly, and I don’t think I’ve really fucked up in any of the major important choices in my life.
2024 was a particularly difficult year for me, and even then I was satisfied with a lot of my life, just struggling against it being difficult at the time.
When I have a permanent job and ideally own a small house or condo it’ll probably bump up a point or two