“Happiness is a choice”
We’ve all heard it from someone we know. All those motivational speakers and optimistic therapists; that one friend that’s always just a bit too perky. The funny thing is, people like that look down on people like me. My dad would always call me lazy. He’d say “You’re not trying hard enough,” or “If you wanted happiness you’d be happy”.
It doesn’t always work like that.
I’m 17 and on so much medication that I have to carry around a little list of pill names so that I don’t forget. I haven’t slept more than two hours a night for the last year. I see things that aren’t there.
Happiness is a choice?  No, happiness is a privilege.
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Whatever it is, you deserve it. And a good night’s sleep. Every night.
Happiness is a choice…..right and the moon and sun are made of cheese ….
some people just pull shit out their ass and think its fact….however people tend to form very strong opinions about things based on their own experiences while forgetting about different experiences from others and effectively acting like these don’t exist when they do
Maybe happiness IS a choice.
By taking the choice to do shit, that in the long run would make you happy.
I always felt that wanting to be happy is the biggest obstacle of being actually happy. If you choose it, you lose it. Happiness is the opposite of Want.
Happiness is a delusional state, gifted to the oblivious.
If happiness is a delusional state, would that not imply all emotional states are delusional, and all people are oblivious due to their particular flavor of delusion?
@lorax:
That’s quite similar to what buddhism says.
Just following the logic. 🙂
buddhism inadvertently teaches people to strive for inaction, apathy and ignorance, and to refrain from shaping the world into something better, because it might somehow negatively impact another being. To live is to suffer desire and dis-ease. Peace can only be attained through elimination of desire, to eliminate the suffering of desire; to learn to not want. Peace can only be attained through elimination of life… to allow oneself to disintegrate, willingly. Peace cannot occur in this world… though it can be glimpsed.
But what it was intended to teach, was more along the lines of appreciating the value of being alive, enabled to perceive and act toward resolving problems… most of which are caused by the suffering of desire. And it’s not just our own desire which causes our suffering; one man’s desire can cause the suffering of another. One man’s pleasure can cause another dis-ease.
We are all connected, to varying degrees, and we should be mindful of the extended impacts of, and reasons for our actions, and strive to eliminate unnecessary suffering.
@muspelhem haha thank you, that made me smile.
@ lynnkaz: Well that’s something. 🙂