Happiness is a choice

Here is a little thought about life: Happiness is a choice. The only way to be happy is within your grasp. People have different perspectives and with it we have our own choices whether or not we believe that we will be happy or the other. Certain aspects come to mind on why we have this mindset and what keeps us separated from others. Particularly we are on our own in this world and not all the time we will have someone to lean our shoulders on. Some people would say that “we should be able to live on our own” while some would say that “no man is an island.” Both points are true and then again it is up to us if we choose the first or the latter. This is one of the biggest things given to us from the beginning of time: the power of free-will. 

With this free-will, we are able to feel happiness or any other types of emotion we choose to feel. The only difference is that why we choose NOT to be happy in certain point of our lives? Depression comes in so as problems, fear, past experiences, people that surrounds us, illness, discrimination, desolation and so much more. Some would say that they choose not to be happy just because of what happened in their past while others would say that they do not deserve to be happy. I remember having a belief that if you are happy, this will be exchanged with something equally tragic with what you have felt with your happiness. Some would agree, some would not and then again that is a choice of an individual. The question one may think is “why we choose to be happy?” The other question would obviously be “why we choose to be unhappy?”

In a different way, let us talk about why people choose to be happy first before we talk about the other question. But first let me ask you why you choose to be happy? What are those that makes you feel this emotion? Few of the main reasons I can enumerate as to why we choose to be happy is because of family, friends, significant other (lover), future, career or personal reasons. The important thing is that you are happy but on the lighter side, there is a significant outcome if we choose to be happy. 

There is a cycle in life when we choose to be happy in the first place and the same goes if we are sad or if we feel any kind of emotion. It isn’t just us who will feel it but also the people who sees us (or feel us). When we show happiness to people, the logical thinking that they will have is that there is something within you that makes you happy and they would very much like to befriend you. Not just that, there are some who feels lost or sad everyday but when you show happiness to them, it kind of makes them feel lighter and better in a way. There is so much power with happiness, You just don’t feel it because you are preoccupied with another kind of emotion, This could be defined as what your behaviour is, that is who you are on the inside.