Happiness is a choice!!

After 29 years on this planet, I have fortunately realized that happiness is a choice and so is our life...and alot of everything in it as well.

Sure, as far as we know...we didn't have a choice concerning who our parents were or what type of environment we were raised in. We didn't have much choice other than to sit back and enjoy the ride. If it wasn't an enjoyable one, we had to keep looking forward to the day that we could get off or out of it. However even with the most miserable of household circumstances, there was usually always a way to escape and find more enjoyment and fulfillment outside somewhere.

It is unfortunate that many people live their lives unaware of the choices that they truly do have in life. They make up excuses, they use outside factors that cloud their vision and make their decisions for them...then they often wonder why they are "unhappy".

And truth be told, underlyingly - most people do know that they have a choice, but often that choice doesn't seem easy or then they wouldn't have a reason to complain or be angry if they opted for it. Many have to look at themselves and admit that the reason they are still continuing to make decisions that seem to make them unhappy is because the alternative wouldn't necessarily make them happy either - if they really looked at it.

And so what happens to our lives while we spend them "unhappy" or "angry" because things "seem" not to be going our way? We allow them and our happiness and joy to simply pass us by. And before we know it, we are old - we feel as if we haven't lived a life that truly speaks about us or been able to offer the world what we are truly capable of. We allow our ego to dictate our life story, rather than allowing our spirit to experience itself and the truth of life.

Sure there are many things in life that we don't have control over or a choice in. Yet those things can never take away from our biggest choice of all, unless we choose to allow it. The choice is to be happy.