It has been a couple busy weeks since I have gotten preachy on #ThoughtfulDailyPost as last week was Jam Night. @Wesphilbin waves the flag for us and has created @thoughtfulposts as the curation account that rewards thoughtful posts. Please share your positive vibes on the blockchain and consider delegating!
I like to snatch a few of the thoughtful memes my algorithm fires at me and discuss it with the thoughtful folks on Hive!
Happiness
Leslie Jordan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jordan is a funny old boomer we lost in October. With and IMDB this long https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0430074/ and a happy scolding finger like that, how can we not listen?
I can't recall when exactly I first was told that happiness was a choice. That did not make sense and seemed too simple. I am always pretty happy right where I am and seemed to gain a superpower after giving it a try. I like the next line to add that longer-term happiness takes some discipline and is a certain amount of work. What else could be more worth working for?
Happiness just doesn't happen. It is something that we make happen.
Ralph Marston has been a digital fountain of positivity since 1995 at https://greatday.com/nmot/about.html and he agrees with Leslie Jordan. Get this dood a Hive.blog!
Reinforcing the notion that happiness is a choice, I particularly enjoy the notion that is not a result. There are things and people that will make you happy but not until you are ready to be. I think that happiness does indeed come to us but also that it comes from us.
I know I have used this song in the past but it fits too well not to share it again. Don't worry, be happy.
A Good Year
https://coupons4utah.com/ seems like such a strange source for a #thoughtfuldailypost feature but there it is. Now I have the strange compulsion to visit Utah.
I think this one tickled me because my daughter brought it up to me as an awesome idea, I found this sometime after and I hear her voice when I read it.
I am not sure I could sit through or share all 52 in one evening but it certainly would be a fun walk through a year. How many things would have been pushed to long term memory or forgotten otherwise?
It is a little gratifying as well for those of us with blogs on Hive. We can spin back through memories every day whenever we please. What an amazing life that will be.
Given the title of this song, I may have also shared this one long ago. What a wonderful world this would be if we always had amazing years.
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If you know how to make yourself happy, then happiness could be choice ;)
I think it is the choosing that does the making. What I mean is on a morning when I have a pile on my mind, challenges are abound and frustration can set in doing the opposite of making happy, I have made a choice.
When I take a moment, decide “ah screw it none of this matters really and I am going to enjoy the hell out of this day” happiness just seems to happen.
Give it a try! Choose happiness!!
I believe that no matter what situation that you are, you should learn to be happy.
Happiness is life!
Indeed. What else should life be? Difficult at times and challenging but those are less problematic when we choose happiness. As consistently as possible. :)
I think happiness is overrated among people. A person cannot be happy every moment, happiness is a moment, you win something and you are happy, you see someone and you are happy, other than that people cannot be happy all the time. So there is no point in thinking too much about it and wondering why I am not happy 😂
Haha definitely!
Life is a sine wave of ups and downs. The downs can be difficulties we have or learning moments. Progress and success, and happiness for that matter, are hard work. Made much easier when we choose to be happy while facing them.
I can’t think of something more worth working hard for than happiness.
Sadness always comes to a person in life and if a person wants to change his mood, then he is living a very happy life.
Indeed. I don't think being sad is a bad thing at all. Wouldn't appreciate the flows if not for the ebbs.
Happy.
Do it!!
It can be tough when one is looking for it from all the wrong places (others and things). Fortunately, thoughtful posts like this make us reflect and learn that we can actually change how we view and attain happiness.
I love all those quotes you've shared.
Oh definitely. I like to share my thoughts with others and learn their perspectives too. Pausing to contemplate messages delivered to us and sharing the positivity with others is what #thoughtfuldailypost and hive are all about!
What @zekepickleman said!
Great post, I love that song, don’t worry be happy, I never saw that video before and I when I saw Robin Williams, I thought about his troubled life and his suicide. He was hilarious on stage , yet he suffered in his personal life, so sad.
I like the notes in jar idea, because we do forget the good stuff pretty quickly.
I like your take on life, happiness comes from within, no doubt, you can’t truly love another unless you love yourself.
Nice thoughts @zekepickleman