To be happy... or not.... your choice...

Ask a child how to stop a war, and you get a simple response... "STOP FIGHTING".

Ask an army general how to stop a war, and you get responses that never crosses your mind. So complicated. That's a fact.

Of course life is very complicated. But the fact is life is so simple you just have to live it. But our surroundings make it so complicated and on top of that we make it so complicated by making decisions that will add on to more decisions to make.

I'm a simple man. Each morning I wake up, I always ask myself... "Will it be a happy day... or will it be a crappy day???". Of course my answer will always be the former but somehow, somewhere, sometime in the middle of the day, the latter will always creep out of nowhere. And the worst thing is you cannot help it but accept that it will be a crappy day. It can happen early in the morning when you are standing in sardine packed train full of people who somehow forgot to have shower when they woke up, OR in the middle of the day when someone sneezes in a lift full of people, OR at the end of the day when your boss tells you..."I need you to do overtime, no excuses, management decision". Life sucks right???

But it is entirely up to you on how you take it. Shit happens, but it entirely depends on you whether you want the smell to affect you or not. I will always, or at least try to go for the choice that will make me smile.

For example... sardine packed train and standing next to a person who didn't have shower... at least i had mine and i know i don't smell as bad as that person (too bad if you didn't have shower yourself). Lift full of people and someone sneazes... at least I'm not the only one who is gonna breathe in air full of germs. Overtime after work... extra money at the end of the month. That's how I manage to get thru the day with a smile on my face and it makes me happy at the end of the day when i reach home and the Missus ask... "How's your day dear?" and i can say "It's crappy but I'm ok".

It takes practice to do this and it all boils down to the choices you make all the time. You always have two choices in life, followed by another two, then another two and so on and so forth. The most important thing is make a choice that will make you happy, although it makes others unhappy. But who can blame you. I believe, in life, to be a happy person, you have to be selfish. I must admit, I have made decisions in my life that make me happy and others unhappy and wants to beat the crap out of me. But that's me.

My point is, you decide your life, not your boss, not the person next to you, not even your partner in life. The decision you make is yours and no one can take credit for your happiness (vice versa you cannot blame anyone for your sadness as well). Always keep in mind, your happiness is up to you. You decide if you want to be happy or not.

Cheers for now.