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How Long Have You Been Happy?

We should wallow in happiness rather than in sadness.

Carina Guerrero
Feb 05, 2018
Coffee House Writers
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How Long Have You Been Happy?
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How long have you ever been happy?

Consecutively happy.

Not just content with your life but truly and honestly happy.

The kind of happy where you feel warm and bubbly inside. Where you are excited and trusting and everything feels right with the world.

The kind of happy that makes all of yesterday’s problems disappear.

The kind of happy that makes you feel like you are on top of the world.

The kind you want to share with everyone. Let everyone around you know just how purely happy you are.

Because it’s fleeting.

Imagine if we focused on happy.

Imagine if all the time spent focusing on bad things was spent focusing on happiness. Imagine spending hours counting every tiny little good thing in your life that is making you so happy and instead of crying until your chest hurts you are smiling until your cheeks hurt.

How different would today be for you?

We often live our lives planning for the future and planning for later so much that we forget to enjoy the now. Happiness should be a conscious choice, not a fleeting feeling. We should't ignore the times when we are truly happy. Enjoy it. Savor it. Wallow in it. Happiness inspires us to be better versions of ourselves and that is what we should dedicate our energy to instead of what is wrong in our lives. We are only in control of so much in our lives and it is worth it to spend as much of it as we can of the positive things in our lives. We can make the conscious decision to focus on the positive instead of the negative and free up so much of our time for more important things.

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