I choose to be HAPPY!

The idea for this blog hit me earlier in the week but I just haven't have time to get my thoughts on paper (computer) till now. The past 7-8 months have been a world wind and have sent me on a soul searching  adventure for what I really want in and out of life and the answer seemed simple enough. I just want to be happy. Seems fair right? Everyone says it, but do they mean it? Do they strive for it? Do they try to be happy? What I have realized about myself, others, and life in general may be a no brain to some while others still struggle with the concept. The real simplicity of just being in a state of happiness. How does one accomplish such a state of being? It takes work, constant effort, and true peace with ones self to get to this point. What I have realized is that while my world was falling apart in front of my eyes, it was just the start of me being able to build a better life for myself, an empire, and a world that no one could touch or destroy but myself. I was fighting to hold on and I was fighting to let go. But when I finally let go I started to get happy, not all at once and not a flood of happiness occurred, but a few days at a time things got easier, life became enjoyable again, events become something I looked forward to instead of what I dreaded. I could go on about what I went through and how it changed me and to some extend I have in previous blogs, although getting back to this week, I woke up on Monday morning chipper as could be, happier than a pig in shit, and more excited than a little kid on Christmas morning. You would have thought I won the lottery, except I did. Just not the millions of dollars everyone is thinking about. I won the happy lottery. I won the battle within myself, the battle so many fight and loose. I finally came to the conclusion that I hold the key to my happiness, not the others that surround me from day, not my friends, not my family, not my significant other, and not by boss. I have the choice to be happy, sad, miserable, excited, fun, boring, passionate, and so on. With the constant struggles, stresses, and pressures that society throws at us and on us every minute of every hour of every day its no wonder that more than half of the population suffers from depression and other mental health illnesses. However, waking up and telling yourself that you will be happy today, you will smile through the bullshit and you will share your smile with those that are down can and will change your whole day. What am I getting at? I'm getting to the point that happiness is a choice, its hard, its not easy, its draining, and sometimes forceful, but it can be done. It is so much easier  and takes less work to just be unhappy and unpleasant but who wants to be around you when you are like that? I bet sometimes you cant even stand yourself when you act that way. Whats this all mean? It means SMILE, be happy, make the effort to be happy, to be fun, to share your spirit with others. If it was easy everyone would do it, but its not, that's why there are more unpleasant than pleasant people in this world today. You have a choice everyday you wake up to either make it the best day or the worse day. Make it the best day and start off with a simple kind thought to yourself that will surely put a smile on your face. You and only you are responsible for your happiness, your attitude, your mood, and your state of emotions. I bet if more people started looking at themselves for happiness rather than others to supply them with happiness, more people would have smiles on their faces.