Choose Happiness…
Today my thoughts fall freely like a new spring, undoing the bitter pills of yesterday. My experiences, my disappointments, my frustrations, pain and broken relationships. I’m high spirited, hoping for nothing less than the best in life.
Fresh breath of a new dawn, an era of great triumph is where I stand, towered above annoying issues, looking them straight in the eye and refusing to get involved, a position only you can take, a decision only you can make. A french writer once said “happiness is a decision not a condition.” Do you know why? It is because life situations can never leave you happy. It appears as if it is a conspiracy to put you in a perpetual unhappy place that is why, it is a decision you must consciously and constantly make not because there is the absence of troubles or challenges but because you have realised that the only way to live above your challenges is to be happy.
There was a time in my life I thought it was my place to fix everything and everyone that goes wrong. I got often sucked in and that left me always stressed, sad and depressed. I strived endlessly to make everything and everyone work. I woke up in the morning to this same routine everyday for so many years. Why? Because life kept putting me in an unpleasant, undesired spot, using friends, family and loved ones to taunt and make my life miserable. But as time went on, I got wiser, learnt to trust God and take it all to Him in prayers, especially when I know there is nothing I can possibly do in such situations or cases. It was at this point I knew I could actually stay above my problems and live happy even in the face of my many challenges. I believe this is the story of most of us right? We contend every single day with issues, when it seems like there is a breakthrough, just then a fresh problem appears but that is simply the way of life. So, do not let events or situations determine your happiness, else you may never really know what it means to be a happy individual.
