I believe that happiness is a choice, just like choosing what to eat for breakfast. Granted it may not always be as simple as choosing between a chocolate muffin or fruit, but it is still a choice. If you wake up and think, its going to be a bad day, what happens? Do you have a bad day? Most likely you do because you create it. I have noticed through my break up I sometimes feel like I shouldn't be happy. I feel like I should be sad and in a "mourning" like state through this time. I now realize that even if I am having a rough time I get to do my best to be happy. "A minute wasted on sadness is a minute of happiness you will never get back." I honor where I am at right now. I know that by making a conscious effort to be happy everyday it will come easier.
Here is an amazing quote on happiness.
"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."
Happiness is something you have to really want and strive for. It is something that you have to trust in when you are having a rough time. Happiness is a tool to get you from point A to point B with more ease. I no longer feel like I have to "punish" myself for breaking up with an amazing person. I am on a journey to find my own happiness day by day. I will find my own happiness and I will become a stronger person because of it. Everyone deserves happiness, the real dividing line is.. will you choose to be happy? Will you choose it when it is the harder choice? When you choose to be happy in a tough situation, you have mastered the skill of choosing to be happy in the roughest of situations.
Go listen to Don't worry, be happy
Until Tomorrow.
Be Happy :)
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