This I believe
I have never thought of myself as a happy person. I have always kind of been bored with everything unless it was something cool or exciting. It took a lot to make myself happy. I could never entertain myself as a child. I always needed someone or something to entertain me. One day I was moping around the house complaining that I was bored and that we never did anything fun. My mother heard me say this and simply said ‘happiness is a state of mind.’ I was puzzled by what she said at first. It sort of just rocked back in forth in my mind for a while. Then one day my mother’s friend who was suffering from depression came over. She was complaining about how miserable her life was. My mother said the same thing she had told me, ‘happiness is a state of mind’.
After hearing this again I was slowly starting to understand what it meant. If you tell yourself you are happy then you will be happy. You can live your entire life in sorrow, pity and depression or you can live a happy fun filled life of joy. Happiness didn’t mean having lots of money or being famous. It meant simply being joyous and satisfied. So many people become overwhelmed with the material things in life such as wealth and lose sight of the more important things in life.
So many people have ended their life simply because they were unhappy. They couldn’t deal with the pain of being alive. These people didn’t have the right mindset. They told themselves they were unhappy and so they become unhappy. Something is only as happy as you make it to be. When you happy you have happiness. Happiness can change your whole day. It’s make you healthier and in a good mood.
I didn’t truly understand this saying until I saw it in real life. This past summer I visited in my family’s homeland. I saw people who lived in in complete poverty but were still happy. They were living in an occupied territory. Their own land had been stripped from them. They were homeless living in their own homes. These people surprised me at how happy they were. I mean anybody who has their homeland taken from them has the right to be unhappy. Despite living in poverty they were happy. After seeing the way these people lived I learned the true meaning of this belief. And so this I believe happiness is a state of mind.