A Quote

If you want to be happy, be. 

~Leo Tolstoy

Pleasing Everybody

Photo: Voltaire Garcia

      We often try to please everybody to the expense of our own happiness.  But how many times have we tried to please everybody and end up failing?  Instead of making everybody happy, we made somebody, or maybe even everybody, upset or sad.  The truth is we can never really please everybody.  This is because we cannot really tell what makes everybody happy.  


      Happiness is relative.  Something that makes me happy wouldn't necessarily make someone else happy.  Chocolates make me happy, but chocolates make Eric sick.  While Bex gets excited reading about Math, J's couldn't care less.


      So we better stop trying to please everybody, because it's just not possible.  Instead, let's do something that will please ourselves, and hope that it will be something that will please most of everybody.

It's a Matter of Perspective

      

        Unhappiness seems to be the theme of most people's lives.  A lot of people seem to be unhappy about almost everything- their job, their relationships, their family, their friends.  But when I hear about their story, they don't really seem so bad.  I guess happiness is just a matter of perspective. 

        I decided to create this blog to share my thoughts on happiness.  I think I am a very happy person.  I am a happy person not because I get everything I want, but because I appreciate everything I get.   I hope, through this blog,  I can help other people have a different perspective on their lives and be happier.