Re: Is Happiness A Choice?
If you choose to stay happy no matter what, you wouldn’t get depressed. Depression is not born overnight and neither is happiness. Both are a choice we make. I have seen people who have nothing be happy and people who have everything be depressed. Of course, I am not speaking of depression that is caused by low levels of seratonin or something like that.
It is not our circumstances that make us happy or sad, it is how we “choose” to react to them. If you had nothing to eat, you wouldn’t waste your time staying in bed thinking about how you have nothing to eat. You would get up and get something to eat. Apply that to other areas of your life. The truth is many things happen because we allow them then we allow what happens to us to consume us. We hold on to things we cannot control yet we do not dare change the things we DO have control over. Then we blame others and get depressed.