11 days...must be a record!

I usually pride myself on being able to sympathize with people or at least understand why they feel a certain way or why they did something that seems a little strange. However there is just one thing that I can't comprehend and that is when people can't be happy.

I'm not suggesting that everyone goes around giggling all the time (my mother thinks I'm annoying). There are legitimate reasons to be upset such as a recent death of a loved one or clinical depression but overall there are very little reasons to be sad. I'll use my Mom as an example. If anybody should be depressed it is here. She has battled breast cancer, cervical/uteran cancer, chrons, anorexia/bulimia, being deaf amongst other things that I can't remember the name for. Yet through it all she has remained positive and never let it get her down. Then people go on saying that life is hard. You know what, life is what you make it and if you would rather be miserable and insist life is hard then get on with it.

There was a song out last year by Three Days Grace that had the line: "'Cause I'd rather feel pain then nothing at all". I got so upset by this because it was the time that my Opa was in the hospital dying of severe internal bleeding which I can only imagine to be painful. I'm 100% positive that my Opa would rather have felt nothing then pain for the 5 months that he was hospitalized. I would rather feel nothing then pain.

I hate to sound cliche but it is true. There are always people worse off than you. Get off your high horse; stop believing that life is hard. There are people who are starving, who have no place to spend the night, who are being abducted and forced to murder their families, who live in garbage dumps. I know I've seen it. My life is bliss compared to their's. Your life is not hard!

People are fond of saying that there are no absolute truths in life. I believe they are wrong. There are two absolute truths about human nature:
1. The only thing that stays consistent is change.
2. No matter what happens, we keep on living.

I don't understand why people choose to be miserable. And it is a choice! You may not be able to control what happens around you but you have a choice of how to react. You can either brush it off and be happy. Or let it bother you until you die of a stress-induced heart attack. The choice is yours!

Choose to be happy! :D






-c.s.