Simply..think yourself happy....

23/10/2014

Did you manage to Get Up Happy? (see yesterday's post).

Arlene Francis clearly thinks being happy is a choice.

Others believe happiness is a skill.

I tend to think that given my advantages, happiness might even be an obligation! It would be positively churlish not to be happy.

What do you think?

(It goes without saying that we're not talking about clinical depression when suggesting that happiness is a choice..)

3 Comments

swissrose link

23/10/2014 07:03:54 pm

Absolutely agree!! :)

cath van der linden

24/10/2014 01:33:21 am

This has really made me reflective. I hope my thoughts aren't going to take too much space. I don't know if happiness is a choice, neither do I know if it is a state of being. For me it is more fleeting. Maybe it is possible to choose happiness after a lifetime practicing. The challenges chronic complaints after a serious car accident offer, pave my way.
I often have a card with an evocative word on display on my shelf. Happiness is among them and I've learned that being aware of the meaning of the card during the day can also evoke the opposite or the missing. That's life for me. At the moment I work at contentment and when it's there it is not always exclusively because of a decision or my own doing.

Freda

24/10/2014 07:25:38 am

Cath your thoughts will not take up too much space here! There is as much space as you like - I appreciate your sharing your always interesting thoughts.

Simply..think yourself happy....

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