This is a podcast by Andrew Matthews, he's sharing a happiness tips which I found a good thing to share as a reminder for me and for people nowadays.
When he was 25, he didn't have a very good attitude, he was a bit of a complainer, but he had a neighbor Caroline and she always seem happy, and here's a thing, her life wasn't perfect, her house was falling apart, her car was falling apart, her second marriage had just falling apart, and her mother whom I know admired her so much had recently passed away due to cancer, but Caroline seems always had this happy attitude. She always just seem to look at the bright side, if it was raining, she was happy, if she was stuck in traffic, she was happy, and she seem to like almost everybody.
One day, he was on the supermarket, and she bouncing him with the big smile on her face and
she says : guess what happened to me today!
I say : I don't know Caroline, what? did you get a new job?
She said : No
I said : Did you fall in love?
She said : No
She said : My cat got fire
I said : What?!
She said : My cat got fire, I burnt it down the road, and it was just a flame
I said : Caroline, what is it with you? why you always so damn happy?
She said : because I got sick of being miserable
At the time, I thought she was joking, I mean, you don't just choose happiness or do you ?
Did she just get tired of being miserable and hop on the highway to happiness?
There is no highway to happiness, but there is a road to happiness, it's bumpy, sometimes you might even breakdown and that's okay as long as the part of you says I know I'm on the right road and I'm going to keep what works.
Is happiness a decision?
well, we know lots of bad stuff happens in life, you get sick, you can't pay your bills, you get fired, people let you down, you do all the work and your colleagues get the credit, you lose people you love, so how could you choose happiness?
