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Originally posted by stacey_JRN
good for you... I wish someday I could happy as you... hehehe
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I'm feeling a tad philosophical today, stacey, so I'm going to field this one.
Experts say "happiness is a choice." They're right. It really doesn't matter what your life is like, you can be happy within it if you choose to be. If you say "I'll be happy when I get a better job/car/house/spouse/whatever" you're dooming yourself. Not because those things won't happen, they most likely will, but because you may discover that getting them doesn't make you happy. Happiness is an internal mechanism that helps people get through the day. It's based on an appreciation of the simple things and just giving yourself permission to be happy. All the people running around selling books telling you to "pamper yourself," "take care of yourself" and the like make money for a reason. The second reason is that their advice is sound, which makes sense because it's all the samed damned advice in all those books. The first reason is that the world is made up of a lot of unhappy people. If having things and people in one's life guaranteed happiness, everybody at the mall would be wearing party hats and clown shoes...but they're not.
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