Happiness Is a Choice

It’s been said often enough that happiness is a choice. But what’s not said so often is that happiness is a difficult choice.

Yes, happiness is a difficult choice. But the funny thing is it’s difficulty is not intrinsic to happiness. I mean, it’s not difficult in the sense that mastering quantum mechanics might be for most. The difficulty does not lie in achieving the goal of happiness. The difficulty lies in making the choice.

The difficulty lies in making the choice because of numerous factors. Let’s examine them in some detail.

1. Cart before horse or horse before cart - most of the time, most of us lay out conditions. We convince ourselves we will be happy once we do/get/become blah blah blah!

Once we do/get/become blah blah blah we are, indeed, happy. But only for a while...a few moments, days or weeks. And, then, our happiness becomes dependent on doing/becoming/getting another blah blah blah!

See? It’s conditional and conditions are not always favorable...at least not consistently or all the time. Life throws up a new situation and our conditions for happiness change.

2. Emotions - Have you been on a roller-coaster? Up, down, right, left, high, low...that’s how our emotions are. Sometimes high, sometimes low, something one thing, sometimes another...happy, joyful, pleasant, calm, relaxed, anger, hatred, jealousy, sadness, worry, depression...the list can be endless, depending on how one can nuance his emotions.

Emotions seem to rise suddenly from the blue and disappear suddenly, too...into the blue or blues!

3. Mind - mind is a strange thing. We all have a mind. Our minds control us but we seem to have no control over our minds. It can pick up strange signals and dive off in a certain direction or rise...gloriously into the stratosphere. At least for a few special moments. If the mind was rising gloriously into the stratosphere...regularly...we wouldn’t have too many problems. Because, somewhere, sometime, knowingly or by chance, we made the decision to be happy. And, the mind responds! It raises us to immense heights...of creativity, joy, peace...even love!

That’s what we need to do...make the choice to be happy and if we succeed, we’re on our way...on a wonderful enchanting beautiful journey! If not, we need to work on ourselves...

With the help of someone like the one who wrote this piece.

- rajyogi

https://rajyogi.wixsite.com/lifecoach