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“Happiness does not happen in your comfort zone.”~

I always say happiness is a decision, because you can have it all and still be unhappy simply because you haven’t really decided to be happy.

Low-key, every day we encounter at least a million things that threaten to steal our joy, but do you let them? The littlest things could ruin one’s mood, yet the happiest people are those who don’t let things irritate them as much. People who are willing to take things easy, to let go of annoying situations. So you see, happiness isn’t always comfortable.

We literally have to go out of our way to create our own happiness. You don’t sit with folded hands and expect it to be handed to you. You have to make yourself happy at the end of the day, because the pressure of life and the daily news of disasters is enough to steal your smile.

That’s why one of my favourite clichĂ© lines is, “If you can’t find your smile, I have one you can borrow.”

I know someone who had been depressed for the longest time, always complaining about how stagnant her life was and how unhappy she felt. Recently, she took up a job just “to leave the house,” you get? Anyways, it has been stressful, but she has found her spark again. The daily interaction with people has kind of given her life. And even though it’s a lot of stress and not exactly what she wants to be doing, that one uncomfortable decision, to at least take control of the little she could, brought her spark back.

So dearest reader, life is tough. Life is literally happening every day. But in the midst of it all, you and I have to make uncomfortable decisions to be happy, guard our peace, and give ourselves to growth, because that produces a ridiculous amount of happiness in our lives.




@favvy_Okwansđź–¤.

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