Is Happiness really a choice?

 

Happiness is a choice.  I tell myself this every morning as I do my words of affirmation and while journaling.  It is...the ability....my ability to put every possible positive effort in TODAY.  I can't fix what happened yesterday because yesterday is gone, I can't control tomorrow because it hasn't occurred yet, but TODAY...today in MY MIND is a mold of clay just waiting to take form.  

I've heard more times than I can count that happiness is NOT a choice.  That happiness is adjective describing your feelings and not a verb fueling them.  I disagree.  HAPPINESS IS A VERB. Happiness, when chosen, drives your ENTIRE day. Happiness occurs the moment you allow yourself to see the positive in EACH facet of your day. Granted, not everyday is a good day. Some days you don't feel it.  Not people, not work...you just wanna be.  But it's in those situations that we have to remind ourselves that even in rough times, happiness is always present. 

I'll go deeper...

In all honesty, as a single parent, my happiness is what keeps me going. If I didn't have even a piece of my happiness, I don't know how I would make it through most my days.  The pressure of balancing work, home, kids, grandkids, prayer life, finances....it's ALOT.  I'm just saying with everything you have going in life, you should have one thing.....just one that brings a smile, some glimmer of hope to yourself.  

For a long time, I had to have someone in my life.  I felt like in order for me to be happy, I had to make someone else happy. THEY had to complete ME.  But as I've grown older, as I've experienced more, I realize it's not another person that will complete me.  They may ADD to me...they may become the BONUS factor...the end game though....it all begins with me and MY HAPPINESS is not only a choice but LIFE.