When I read this question, I thought I was happy and couldn't think of anything to write.
And I am in a pretty regret-free situation. Life's going alright. Then I read a few bits of other people's answers and realised that I do have a problem.
It all started in 2004 when I moved from a sales environment to a marketing job. The blissful ignorance of life was shattered. I saw how shallow and money-driven EVERYTHING was. Where before I saw a fun talent show, I now saw a popularity contest with no winners other than those who took the money from the advertising breaks and so on.
This slide continued with subscriptions to Private Eye and the reading of Flat Earth News (among other things).
I am now a terminal cynic who hates most things, purely for the fact that most things are hateable and pointless drivel.
It was also in or around 2004-5 that I joined B3ta. Possibly there's a link...
( Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 10:59, 11 replies)

Life is but an unrelenting march through increasing pain unto eternal death.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 11:00, closed)

I was quite happy pre-2004 watching the puppet show.
Post 2004, I saw the paedo puppeteers wanking behind the curtain. There's no way back from that.

And you're right.
( Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 11:07, closed)

©1982, Thom Yorke
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 11:09, closed)

Would you like a hug?
I give great hug. I'm quite famous for it.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 11:09, closed)

Hugs always make things better.
Hang on, what's that poking into me?
*keeps on hugging anyway*
( Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 11:11, closed)

It's just a pen in my pocket.
A small pen.

A small and leaky pen.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 11:23, closed)

You should stop
listening to Morrissey.
(username failed moderation, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 11:31, closed)

Oh god.
I never started listening to that unsufferable cunt. Imagine me if I had!
( Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 12:00, closed)

That's probably
the best description of him I've ever seen.

Although the high court judge who called him "devious, truculent and unreliable" did a pretty good job.
(username failed moderation, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 12:32, closed)

There is a link.
It's purple and may contain traces of horsemeat.
( .Yeti., Fri 1 Mar 2013, 13:52, closed)

Life is not a popularity contest.
Oh, wait. Yes, it totally is.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 14:32, closed)