How To Be Happy

January 22nd, 2008

happiness is a choice, he smiled at me.

sometimes it evades you, i said quietly. then it’s no longer a choice you have the luxury of making.

no, happiness is always a choice, he insisted, beaming brightly.

i went home and thought long and hard about it. after putting everything side by side. left to right. up and over each other. i’ve learnt that, yes, happiness is a choice. even if it evades you, it is still a choice. it is always a choice.

i choose to be happy today even though it is difficult to be. and because there is nothing big to be happy about right now, i will choose to find joy in something small. this isn’t as hard as i think it to be, because there will always be little things around us that we oft overlook in the pursuit of bigger things. so i will take this tiny, almost crackable, ounce of joy… and i will turn it into something that is bright, cheerful and bigger than me. as long as i can make it bigger than me, i will be happy. so the small thing i choose to find joy in today is: the song Bubbly by Colbie Caillat. i’m gonna wrap myself in it like frozen fish in cling-wrap.

It starts in my toes
And I crinkle my nose
Where ever it goes
I always know
That you make me smile
Please stay for a while now
Just take your time
Where ever you go

someone i know calls me Colbie because this song reminds him of me. it’s so perfect.

so, for today and maybe even for tomorrow, my name is Colbie. because i am happy.

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