"If your happiness depends on what someone else does, then I guess you do have a problem." That's a quote by Richard Bach. You get bonus points if you actually knew who this guy is. Oddly enough, I had heard of his book (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), but I did not know that he was the author!
If any of you have ever seen the book, then you know why the 70's were known for their drugs. Essentially, it was a small book about a seagull that loved flying for the sake of flying. Who would have thought something like that could become a best seller? Only in the late 60's or early 70's I would imagine! Anyway, back to the quote. Gratefully, this is not a quote from Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Regardless of where he said this, I think the quote has some self-evident truth. If your happiness depends on the actions of someone else, then you really do have a problem! Life makes it hard enough sometimes to stay happy. Add in the actions of another person to make or break your happiness, and then you really are asking a lot. For me, I find happiness in the little things. They happen more often than big monumental things, and they also usually don't depend on other people to make me happy. Here are a couple of things that have made me happy today. In no particular order:
So what makes you happy? If you don't know, then you are doing yourself a great injustice. Discover what little things make you happy, and then put yourself in a position to experience as many of those things as you can each and every day. Sure, there are big things that make me happy. They just have a tendency not to happen everyday. Thus I try to make sure to enjoy the little things that CAN happen every day. Because the bottom line is, that I prefer to be happy rather than sad. So go chase happy!
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