>>81499275I was thinking more like english, social studies, math, but I can try to help with that, sure. But keep in mind: nothing I say matters unless you take action yourself. You can read a million self-help books and none of them will do you any good unless you actually implement what they say.
Happiness isn't just something that happens to you. Maybe that's how it works for other people but if it worked for you then you wouldn't be asking me this. If you want to be happy, you'll have to make different choices and put in effort. It's a deficiency of English that "happiness" is a noun and not a verb. In reality, a person becomes happy if he constantly acts, and chooses to be happy. My guess, given that you are on r9k, is that you more or less strive for nonexistence. Activities like vidya, youtube, browsing 4chan - these are free trials on death. When you do them, you're not really "existing," you're putting real experiences on hold so you can get to the next day as quickly as possible. You're not doing, you're not even really thinking, you're just present in some abstract way. If you want to be happy, you need to appreciate life and existence.
How does one do that? It's different for everyone. My recommendation is that you take some time to deeply think about what you want in your life and put together a plan to actually do it. I also recommend that you try to achieve excellence. The more you accomplish, the more you achieve - the more you are doing, and the more you are doing, the more you are being. I became much happier when I expanded my hobbies. Learn a language, learn an instrument, lift, write, draw, paint, it doesn't matter, just DO. The key to happiness is to stop sitting around and do things.
This might not be the most coherent because I wrote it very quickly. If you want a better explanation of the same information, the Greeks wrote more cogently about happiness than anyone else. I recommend doing some research on eudaimonia and arete.