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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Formula for happiness

What is it that really determines a person's happiness? Money? Food? Jewelry? Family? Friends? Success? Really what? Personally I think it a person's duty to find what truly makes them happy rather than being dependent on things or people to make them happy. Things and people only give happiness for a moment but when it's all gone the happiness is taken away, however they do add to your life. If you always depend on material possessions or people to always make you happy well I believe you are just going to end up being more miserable than you will be happy.
"Happy people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the best of what they have" find comfort in what u already have, however the statement is not just referring to material things of the world but it goes deeper than that. "Being happy is something you have to learn" you are NOT ALWAYS going to be 100% happy because you are human so it would be unnatural for you to be smiling and laughing 24/7 but it is important for u to learn to overcome that moment of sadness/disappoint and move on.
"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." Groucho Marx
Don't dwell on the past because it is just that the PAST it has already gone instead live in the present and work towards the future I'm sure u will be happier if you do. If you tell yourself that you will be happy then you will be.
Share your happiness then your happiness will be multiplied, accept the things you cannot change and move on, stop expecting everything to always be perfect look beyond the imperfections, appreciate what you do have, forgive both yourself and the people that may have hurt you, don't always expect things to go the way you want instead hope for the best and work with the opportunities u r given, help someone, never try to please everyone.
"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
Making yourself happy requires the same amount of energy as making yourself miserable, which will you choose?