Do you allow yourself to be happy?

Myrtle said:
Speaking only for myself, my happiness is usually connected to my attitude. I can't always control what happens but . I can often choose how to allow it to affect me. Of course, I haven't perfected that approach yet, but I'm still working on it and it does make my life better.
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That's the key to happiness IMHO. It's in our attitudes which we can control with practice.
 

Myrtle said:
Speaking only for myself, my happiness is usually connected to my attitude. I can't always control what happens but I can often choose how to allow it to affect me. Of course, I haven't perfected that approach yet, but I'm still working on it and it does make my life better.
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I think happiness is always connected with attitude and the thoughts we choose to think. It is a choice and it took me years to finally figure the truth of that fact:rolleyes::D I finally finally understood we do have control over our thoughts...in fact it is the only thing we really do control...
 

I have always been fairly happy even when I have things not to be happy about going on. When they affect me, I talk myself past it. Most times I can't do anything about it especially if it involves others or a situation beyond my control. Every morning, I decide to be happy. That is all I can do.
 
When I take time to remember and count my blessings, and even on some
very difficult days in my life, then I feel happiness and contentment, and that
is a good place to be. But all days in my lifetime, have not always been happy,
and such can be life. Things happen in this life of ours, be it circumstances,
illness, death, the list goes on, and these things can throw a negative anchor for
either a short or longer period of time in our lives. So, we each process life as we
can, finding and allowing happiness along the way, making it a choice, and pursuing
it.
 
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Yes...I always 'allow' myself to be happy....I've been happy and I've been unhappy...most of the time now, I am contended by remembering the happy times and now knowing the unhappy times were a learning process.
 
katlupe said:
I have always been fairly happy even when I have things not to be happy about going on. When they affect me, I talk myself past it. Most times I can't do anything about it especially if it involves others or a situation beyond my control. Every morning, I decide to be happy. That is all I can do.
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How can you not be happy with Bunny to squeeze and keep you in line? Animals are wonderful healers for the human soul.
 
I never understood this question and I've heard it before ?

I'm happy, maybe neutral, or unhappy. I don't feel I "let" myself be any of these. They just happen and for the most part beyond my control.

I think I'm happy most of the time but I don't "let" or "force" myself to be in this state. It's what I'm surrounded by or involved in at the time.
 
I'm happy all the time. Sometimes I'm pretty tired because I am a busy guy but I am always happy. I have been blessed with happiness since I was a little kid on the farm. 77 years later, I'm still laughing at the world and hope to continue as long as I can.

I am rather strange as I have/had 3 brothers who were all depressing grumps. Two of them had a lot more money then I did but then they were very miserable. Reckon money really does not buy happiness!
 
DaveA said:
I never understood this question and I've heard it before ?

I'm happy, maybe neutral, or unhappy. I don't feel I "let" myself be any of these. They just happen and for the most part beyond my control.

I think I'm happy most of the time but I don't "let" or "force" myself to be in this state. It's what I'm surrounded by or involved in at the time.
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We do have some control over what we do and are surrounded by, and that contributes to our happiness or lack there of.

I get what you're saying about a lot of things, for example no way to be happy when a friend dies. But we do have some control and some options.

For example sometimes posting here can make me a bit happier, and when it does I post. Sometimes not, and then I don't.
 
Personally, I am a cheerful type of individual…that is not to say I’m a laugh a minute. Happiness to me is measured in moments and I know it sounds strange but happiness doesn’t bring joy. Joy is something so special, once it’s there in your heart, it’s fixed and takes one through the good and bad times.

When I was a little girl, I read Anne Frank’s book “The Diary of a Young Girl. I cried for days, but one thing she wrote stayed with me all my life and I quote:
“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” (Anne Frank)
 
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