Happiness I often thought was something that would just happen to me. I waited and wondered when it was going to show up. Anytime now, I kept thinking as the years went by. Until forty years later and then one day something strange and wonderful happened to me. I found happiness. You must understand after forty years of waiting I had really given up on the idea.
Oh sure, I had my once in awhile thrills that made me feel happy for a few moments but then it would leave and I was right back in the same darkness as before. But this happy state of mind that showed up one day stuck around long enough to teach me a great deal on life and the personal responsibility we all have here on planet earth. I discovered the most important knowledge that we all need and no one ever taught it to me. I suppose they didn't really know this truth themselves. I discovered that happiness is merely a choice.
We can choose to be happy or we can choose to be sad. It's always our choice. And since learning this from a spiritual experience, I have become a much happier person. I learned that it doesn't really matter what's going on outside of me, what matters is how I react to it. Trust me, I have been truly tested and have fallen down into the pits of darkness, but now I know that I must choose again and pull myself out quickly.
Since I also learned that we create with our thoughts, I know to think positive and cast my sorrows upon my higher power and trust him to deal with the negative issues that jump out at me from time to time. It's oh so simple. Happiness cost nothing, it's free. Choice be had of you and me!
Thanks for sharing your insight!