We can ALL have Happiness so just go out and GRAB IT!

Happiness allows us to feel hope when we are in despair. 

Happiness gives us peace in a world of turmoil.

Happiness allows us to dream

and

Happiness gives us peace.

Happiness is one of the most beautiful feelings that we can have

so

go out and grab it with both hands!

Just go out and grab it

for

 you can attain it!

But...

what is this thing called happiness?

 

 

If you look in the dictionary (Oxford Complete wordfinder) happiness is defined as: pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, cheerfulness and exhilaration, but these words cannot fully explain just what it is! 

Yes...it is a feeling

and

Yes... these words describe part of what happiness is,

but...

it is so much more!

 

My mother's motto for each day is:

Today is a wonderful day... I CHOOSE to make it so!

 

Today is a PRESENT to enjoy, as each day can be good just because we are alive!

We each have a free choice -

 we can CHOOSE to be happy or we can CHOOSE not to be happy.

 

A man [woman] is happy

so long as

he  [she]chooses

to be happy and

nothing can stop him.

(Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

 

It is not what you own,

who you are...

how much money you have

instead...

it is being CONTENT with the person you are,

where you are

and...

what you possess

that can make you happy or unhappy.

 

Basically it is what, and how, you think about yourself and your life - that is the KEY!

If we seek to be happy by looking at others,

trying to be like others and

 not being true to ourselves...

If we keep looking over the fence at the rich man's possessions...

at the false beauty of others we see all around us...

at the fame and fortune that some people possess and we do not...

how dissatisfied will we become?

And the beauty of what we have will be tarnished and lost for ever!

But how do we know what the rich man's thoughts really are?

He can look at us and our contentment and wish that he had what we had!

How do we know what those with a false view of beauty feel?

How do we know what fame and fortune really do to a person,

maybe these people look at us and are envious of who we are and what we have?

 

We can travel the world searching for happiness and maybe we will find it in the end. But because the world is round we will eventually return to where we started and find our happiness right there at our own backdoor! Sometimes we think that a person, a particular place, having possessions and money will bring us happiness but often when we get the things that we desire we find flaws instead. This is when we must find within ourselves, tolerance, forgivesness and love to make happiness  attainable for all of us. There is only one person that can bring you happiness and THAT is YOU YOURSELF - no one else can do it for you!

SO

by changing your thoughts

YOU

can change your world!

 

So dear friends,

each morning say my mother's motto out aloud...

Today is a wonderful day... I CHOOSE to make it so!

 

THUS

my wish for you is to BE YOURSELF and BE HAPPY today and everyday!

 

love Ruth