Choose Happiness

"Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.”
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

“Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It’s often the little things that really matter in life.”
-- Unknown

Why do you want that new car and the bigger house? Why do you want that powerful job?
Oh – to make you happy. I see. Have you looked around and counted your blessings lately? As long as you strive for those material things to make you happy you will n ever attain the happiness that you seek. Look at your family, your friends, and what you currently have. Look at a mountain, a river, the ocean, or a tree. Feel the power of nature and the joy that you are connected to that power. It is certainly not wrong to want nice things in life, but unfortunately most of us seek to attain our happiness through “things”. That will never happen. You can choose to be happy or you can choose to be unhappy.