Choose happiness.

I would always say to anyone to be positive and have hope. Thinking negative especially when the chips are down will not allow one to think clearly. A glimpse of hope does go a long way and further allow one to try harder to ascertain at times. Although sometimes life is extremely difficult to no avail, I certainly do know what that feeling is like, however without my continual hope I would not be as persistent as I am. To people who just lost a loved one? To people who were abused? Even to these above you mentioned a bit of positivity and hope to move past and cope in life. No special words will ever heal and or comfort so positivity would be ideal.

I know what you are getting at here. I know that happiness is a gift. It is the thing we look forward too and what we strive for. Optimistic is for those that have not been beaten down to a certain point in life. There are those that have suffered that which is an insult to say..just be happy. I think that happiness can be the thing that keeps us going though..it is a feeling that we strive for. If we forget it..then we can be lost. No...it is not something I would say to the starving or someone who has lost or one who has been abused...I would say something more like..it is not what you have now but what you take from that and you have the right to be happy..so take it. No..life is not fair but take from it what you can and be from that what you will. Do your best and be what you can and take every moment of happiness and cherish it...it's all I could honestly say to anyone.

interesting ... It seems we are at best, able to choose to be happy ... there is a saying "It's not what we are looking, it's what we see ..." Although it seems another rule may suggest that we seek to be happy most of the time, but not all the time. Would you agree ? There is that rule that suggests :"there is a time for everything ... a time to be happy and a time to be sad ..." For it seems, sadness is the major agent that makes experiencing happiness possible. What do you think?

I probably wouldn't say "Choose Happiness" to these different people, the abused, the mourning, and the starving, just because that seems a little insensitive and unsympathetic considering their situations... But I believe it holds true for all people - you can be happy in any circumstances, and if driven enough, I feel as though we are all able to better our situations. There are some people though, who just seem to CHOOSE to be negative nancy's and not appreciate all the things in life that they DO have - I know mannnyyyy people like this, and even sometimes I feel like I am (when I whine about stupid and unimportant stuff, mainly). They just take everything for granted, it seems, and don't enjoy what they have in front of them. I don't know. But I agree with you. Oh, and I decided that I might tell these people somethign like "rise above your circcumstances" or something to that effect. Hehe. Because it's true. What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger!

As my opinion happiness is not a choice, if it is a choice then each and everyone in this world choose it and no one is sad in this world, happiness is inside us which comes from inner satisfaction, to help someone, with love and families, if we lose somthing we cant choose happiness, automatically we become sad, but if we want to be happy we can try it and try to forget worries but we cant choose happiness.

Hello lore2009, i think i will tell those who suffer the most to choose happiness, because they need it most. What had pasted will never be able to changed. You can change nothing with sadness and this only make you less motivation to change the current situation and let you keep in depressed mood. The situation will not get improved, furthermore you need to put your health on risk with being sad most of the time. Therefore think in positive way, keep us energetic and face life bravely, then we can overcome the life problem!!! Happy mylotting.