Happiness is yours for the taking

Happiness is right under your nose. We try so hard to find happiness. We buy the self help books. We watch Oprah. We ask our friends what makes them happy. We even meditate over it. Now I am not saying that any of those approaches are bad its just that we have happiness all around us we are just too busy looking for it to see it. All we have to do is to be still for a moment and take in our surroundings. Look at our family, even the annoying members and appreciate them for who they are. Who knows maybe we are the annoying ones. We should look at the bright side of life even in its darkest moments. Each event good or bad gives us an opportunity to choose which path we take. Sometimes it is easy to choose and sometimes it is not, whatever the case we should pause before choosing because that choice then leads to other choices that might not be so easy. Choose to be happy. It sounds juvenile but it really can be that easy. Try it, see what happens.