This Is What Happiness Means To Me...

I've been thinking a lot lately, about many things. One thing that keeps on popping up is happiness. I myself am very happy at the minute, and I can't help thanking my lucky stars for everything I have. But I know there are a lot of people who may not be quite so happy. Everybody has their reasons, no person's reasons are any less important than another, whether it be that somebody has had an argument with another person, which some people may think as not that important, or whether it be that somebodies Dad has walked out on them the same day that their Grandma and Dog both died, and they were then in a car accident. This is all made up of course, but many people think "Oh person number 2 is sadder than person number 1" How do you know that? Different people take things different ways, some people may shrug off things that other people will cry their eyes out about. What I'm trying to get at, is that nobody can ever define how happy or sad someone truly is.

The way I see things, nobody else can control how happy you are. They may influence your happiness, but they don't necessarily control how happy you are every single day of every single week. You can only control your own happiness. People don't see just how beautiful the world is. Little things are beautiful. I find it sad that people don't open their eyes and look around them and see how amazing life is, how lucky we are to have everything we do have. I was like this, not that long ago, but like I said, I've been thinking about a lot of things lately. I know plenty of people who are not the happiest they have every been, and I want to help them, but it's their lives, their body's, their emotions, and there is nothing I myself can do to control them. I can give them advice, I can do my best to make them smile, but I cannot control how they are really feeling inside.

One thing I don't understand, is that when people aren't happy, they still sit their and do nothing to change it. If someones unhappy in their job, they sit there and do nothing. If someones unhappy in their relationship, they sit there and do nothing. If someones unhappy about how their lives have actually turned out in the end, they sit there and do nothing! I think it's stupid! If you are not happy with something, anything in life, then CHANGE IT! Nobody else can do it for you, it's your life, your decisions. But don't be an idiot, and sit there and be unhappy, life's too short in the end!

If you are feeling down, that's okay, that's normal, but you have to remember to get back up again. So many people sit there and wallow in their own sadness, and yes I admit, I do it too, I'm the worst one for it! But I think about all the beautiful things I have in my life, and I think about whether it really is the end of the world, or whether I'm being silly, and over exagerating again! I then pick myself up, dust my self off, and get on with it. If it's someone else that is making you feel down then SCREW THEM, they are not worth you, they are not worth your happiness, and you should get them out of your lives permanently!

What I'm trying to get at here, is that you should take every chance you can get to smile, because happiness is key after all. A favourite quote of mine is "Don't frown, you never know who's falling in love with your smile" and I totally agree with it! If your sat there day after day, moping, crying, whinging, frowning, then who on earth is going to fall in love with someone like that?! Let people make you smile, let them influence your happiness, don't block people out, and not let people help you!

Until next time...

"People should smile more" - Newton Faulkner