Happiness
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be." So said Abraham Lincoln. It is not what happens to us in life that determines our happiness so much as the way we react to what happens. Fred might, on just having lost his job, decide that he now has the opportunity to have a new work experience, to explore new possibilities and to exercise his independence in the workplace. His brother Bill might, under the same circumstances, decide to jump off a twenty story building and end it all. Given the same situation, on man rejoices while the other man commits suicide! One man sees disaster and the other man sees opportunity. I may have simplified things a little here but the fact remains that we decide how we react in life. (And even if we lose control, that is a decision that we make. We perhaps decide, "Things are getting a little too difficult for me. I think I will lose my mind for a while!") Being happy is not always...






































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