If you’ve been with me since the beginning, or even just from early on, you may remember my choose happy post. Oh sweet, naive Renee (because now I am 20 and old and wise obviously). Choosing happy is not quite so easy when work begins to pile up and a little voice starts whispering sweet insecurities and self-doubts into your ear. You can put on a happy face and force a smile, but that does not guarantee joy. I still believe that a simple smile can change a “meh” mood into a lovely mood. But life is not always so simple.
Happiness is like a fountain.
A fountain, like joy, is beautiful. They look so simple too. Water flows up in the air with elegant grace and gravity pulls it back down. Simple magic (especially in the pre-electricity days) it may seem is what pushes that water up in the air.
Actually, there is a fair bit of physics hiding behind these majestic structures that I just spent an excessive amount of time reading about. I won’t go into the details, but here’s the buzzword from everything I learned: pressure. The water is put under a great amount of pressure in order to create the fountain.
See? Happiness is like a fountain.
There is more work that goes into happiness than just a smile or a mind state.
Happiness is a choice but it is also the result of all of the other choices we make in life.
For me, happiness is harder to achieve when I’m tired and stressed and lonely. And when I let myself listen to the devil on my shoulder telling me I am not good enough, well there’s goes any chance for a great day.
There is a long long list of items we cannot control in life. There is also a long list of things we can.
Choosing happy means choosing confidence. It means choosing sleep, choosing to stay on top of my work, choosing to find the balance between studies, fun, and friends. It also means prioritizing those people in my life that give me strength.
It may not always be easy but by choosing the things in life that make us happy, we can turn this world into a magical one with rainbows, unicorns, and unlimited ice cream 24/7.
Ha ha kidding. I wish that were true.
This may not bring unicorns into your life, but it will transform you into the little jazz hands emoji 24/7 which is pretty cute too.
confetti kindness 
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