by Helen Tay

Created on: December 10, 2008   Last Updated: January 13, 2009

Do you want to know a secret? Let me share the secret to happiness with you. It is as easy to be happy as to be sad so choose to be happy. Now you know the secret is basically making a simple choice to be happy. There are no external factors to stop you being happy and no one can insist that you cannot be happy.

Many of us failed to realize that happiness is basically our choice to make. We think that we must have the best grades, the best job, the best house or best car to be happy. If that is the case, happiness becomes elusive. Take a child who simply enjoys each moment be it in play or watching a movie, the child's focus is on whatever action the child is doing and that is the focus and with focus comes joy.

Pressures of life, stress, illnesses, financial worries and lots more are the reasons why people cannot be happy. Is this the truth? I beg to differ as I had earlier mentioned that the choice is ours to make and we choose to be happy now. If we think that we can only be happy when something is within our grasp, then woe behold us as we will not ever have a glimpse of it as things change so fast and soon we find ourselves wanting more stuff for ourselves.

Choose this moment to be happy. Do not let the big joys of life evade the small joys of life. Big joys of life could be a famous star, financially free, found the right partner in life and drive the most expensive car and so on as the list is too big to even write it out. The small joys are the smiles of a child, the taste of ice cream, walking with your toes digging in the sands, the coos from babies, the taste of delicious food being served at home, the hugs of someone we love and the list too can go on and on.

Choose to be happy as what we have is now. Now will be what we want to do to make us happy. As long as we are contented with what we have and grateful for all the blessings in our life, we can look forward to each moment of our lives with enthusiasm and strive to do new things to keep us on the learning mode. When we are learning we are focus on what we want to do and we are in touch with ourselves. As long as we are learning new things and helping others, we find new ways of being joyful in the moment.

As there is happiness and there would be sadness. What is important to know is that there is a time for sadness and then we move on in life and choose to be happy in the moment. Basically, the secret to happiness is to be happy and make the decision to be happy in your life. Only you can make that choice for yourself and choose to be happy and this happiness of yours will act as transference for others as well. When you are happy, you will generally vibrate on a higher level and people around you would rather be with you and be happy themselves. Choose this moment to be happy now that you know the secret of happiness lies in you making the simple choice of being happy.

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