GET YOUR HAPPY ON! - a meliorist worldview

Every weekday, my wife and I get up early so I can make breakfast and get her out the door, allowing her to make her morning commute. We go to bed late because she also teaches voice lessons at night. By the time, the weekend rolls around we are always tired.

Our story is probably very common amongst our fellow Americans. With the standard of living being so high in this country, a lot of families must find multiple sources of revenue to make ends meet. And getting ahead? Forget about it, right? I’m sure that a lot of people don’t even see a point in saving up for a house, sending their kids of to college, or just trying to live comfortably. What’s the point? It ain’t gonna’ happen, right?

Wrong! If you are happy, you will always live and feel rich.

You have to change your perspective on things, or you’re going to be miserable for the rest of your life. Everything you grew up thinking was important (money, a house, vacations, etc.), none of that matters because none of it will make you happy.

Happy people are healthy people, and healthy people live longer. Who wants to leave this world unhappy?

If you want to be happy — and I am writing about really really deep-in-your-soul Happy — the first step is tell yourself, “Hey! I deserve to be happy!” Honestly, you have to march into your bathroom; look yourself in the mirror; and tell yourself that you deserve happiness.

Then you have to forgive yourself for being unhappy for so long, and you have to stop blaming everyone else in the world for making you unhappy. No one else other than yourself is responsible for your own happiness. If you rely on others for happiness, you will be riding an emotional roller coaster that will prematurely turn you old and gray.

Everyday I meet people who think that I’m in my early 20’s, but I’m actually in my mid-30’s. I keep myself looking and feeling young, because I never let meaningless nonsense bother me.

You can’t get angry with yourself or get angry with others. Anger is a contagious disease that rots the soul of everyone it infects. Practice smiling in the mirror, and smile as often as you can, especially when you don’t feel like smiling. A smile is just as contagious, maybe even more so.

If you want to be happy, you have to wake up every morning and proactively decide that you are going to be happy. Then take responsibility for all of your own actions. Every action that you take (and every action that you don’t take) has an immediate effect in the world — and it always comes back to either help or hurt you, depending on how positive was your action. Always take pride in what you are doing, and if you’re doing something that doesn’t make you proud, maybe you should stop doing it.

Stop for a second, and change your perspective. Step outside of the box you have created for yourself. Realize that you (the individual You) are an essential component in the organism that connects all life in the Universe. Honestly.

This is the first step toward really really REALLY being happy for the rest of your life. I’ll write more about this later.

I love you all very much, my friends. Be good to each other.

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