I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.
I'm a happy person. Sometimes, I have to make a conscious effort to stay happy. See, my predispositions are - as opposed to what you see - I'm actually quite a sensitive person, very empathetic, very emotional... Very impulsive.
I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things.
I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.
My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.
I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.
One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.
I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.
This might be controversial, but sometimes I think that being happy is a decision. I don't mean that in a way to diminish clinical depression. But on a more day-to-day level.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.