Happiness is not a choice. I don't care who you are, what you say, how much you quote Selligman or truly believe that if you close your eyes and think happy thoughts your body will be filled with joy, it won't happen. I'm sorry. You can be okay with your life (happy) and still be upset, frustrated, or angry. But the emotional experience of happy in its truest, most real form cannot and does not exist on demand. If it was a choice, then most of the people on this planet are retarded. And that super annoying chipper guy that we all know would rule over all he sees.
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14 hours ago
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I agree and disagree. I always wanted to beat the living crap out of people who said "focus on the positive!" but I've realized that it does have some truth to it.
Don't kick me.
I've been rather successful at shifting my thinking from so much of the doom and gloom, towards what isn't so bad about it all.
-My job sucks and I hate it BUT I can pay the bills and buy a bottle of wine at the end of the day.
-Our landlords because total f-wads BUT now things have calmed and we no longer deal with them anymore (or pay them rent).
I'm looking for the "but"s in life.
You can choose to buy a wave-runner... and thus choose happiness... when was the last time you saw someone on a wave-runner who was not happy?
Perhaps I should clarify. To say that happiness is a simple switch we hit is to cheapen happiness in our lives. Pain and struggle are necessary and important things in our lives, and to run from them is to make a prostitute out of joy at the expense of the human condition.
I agree with that. You have to feel your feelings or you cease to live... especially wave-runner feelings.
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