Choosing Happiness

They say happiness is when your life fulfills your needs. It is when you only see the positive side of life and neglect the negative one. It is when you let go of things that keep you in the prison of yesterday. The fruit of acceptance is happiness and it is a choice whether you will stress out yourself sticking to that negative vibes or choose to be happy. The main question will be, how will you let the happiness help you to stop sadness from drowning you?

We are living in a world where people do whatever it takes just to make themselves happy.  We all have different versions of happiness. One may say that happiness is having all the wealth and power. Others will say it’s having someone you love beside you but mostly would say that it is achieving your dreams with courage and hard work and watching yourself slowly getting the success you are dreaming of. With all the different definition of happiness that we know, at the end of the day one may realize that happiness is our choice. Not our friends’, family’s nor anyone else but it is our choice. We will never be contented in life because as we fulfill those holes in our whole being there will be another hole. It’s continuous. It’s like running to a never-ending race or solving problems without a formula. It’s a mystery needed to be solve. You are happy now, the other day not because at the first place it’s our choice if we will take and absorb those negative vibes to drown us to a deep sadness or make them as our motivation to go through and find our path. Just like what Buddha said, “There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.” If we are happy, we will make the right decision which is the main ingredient in finding the right path we all looking for.

            There are so many things to be happy about and it depends on ourselves. Eating may be my happiness but for others who are conscious about their body of course it’s not. Putting ourselves in another’s shoe, we will understand and realize that happiness surely depends on our choice. Just for an instance, looking at the homeless children in the street, we will surely think that they are sad but are we really sure? Happiness is not just about smiling and frowning. Yes, we can show the world our sweetest smile and saddest frown, but does it mean that we are happy or sad? There are a lot of people who feels happy even for just petty things. There are many things street children lack off, home, family who will take care of them, food and clothes but give them a mere biscuit and you will see those sparks in their eyes and that’s because happiness for them is enjoying the little things in life. It’s an indication that we can be happy without any luxurious things and power in life. If we will be grateful for what we have despite of everything surely, we will be happy.

            Happiness is something hiding in ourselves that we need to find to let it come out. It’s not something that will come to us, but it is something that comes from us. It is within us. Nothing will make us happy unless we decide to be positive and choose to be happy. All of us have the control to our own happiness so if I were you, always choose to be happy.