I Say We All Have Choices

[b][big]NOBODY CHOOSES TO BE UNHAPPY[/big][/b]

Some of us take longer to discover what is making us unhappy. Too many people in this old world tell us that [i]this [/i]is what we should have in order to be happy, productive people. Yet no two people need the exact same recipe for their perfect happiness. It's discarding the toxins from our lives, that lets us start realizing we are allowed to find or create our own recipe for contented living.

Some people live all their lives with someone who tells them they are useless, unworthy, stupid, shouldn't have been born, etc. They don't choose to be miserable, but believe it's what they deserve because the important people in their lives have told them so.

When we are sad or depressed or feeling hopeless, we go to therapists, get medication, and yet, we still feel unworthy of true joy. [b]Why? [/b]. Where did we get the idea that we don't deserve to be happy? Why do we think that unless we do certain things and behave in a certain way, we will never find happiness? I think it's because, at some point, someone who had some powerful influence in our developing psyches, told us so.

I think, if we can discover who and why, we can dispose of either the message they gave us, or if they are still part of our lives, we can walk away from them, we will then begin to heal ourselves.