Happiness is Your Responsibility

Have you ever given much thought just how powerful you are and how much influence you have over your life as well as the lives of others? If we look at just one single aspect of our lives and evaluate some of the ramifications that are created by acts of kindness, good expressions and examples offered and given to others, we might be able to see one place where we can improve and develop which will benefit mankind now and forever. For, it is true, what we do today, will have a lasting effect, we will want to make these daily deeds something that will enhance our lives and the lives others.

One act of kindness, one good deed or one helping hand, is a down payment on happiness. People who are sharing happiness are building a fortune in reserve that will overflow their personal happy coffers before they know it. Add one drop to an empty bucket and it still looks empty, but over a long period of time with a lot of continuous drops, the bucket will begin to overflow. Bringing happiness to people is a lifetime venture just as a bank, must continue to loan money to bring in interest from those loans to make the bank more effective. I hope I have shown you rather than told you how happiness is created, effected, and built. Believe it or not, two happy people coming together is a lot more than just two happy people, it is like the redoubled strength of two magnets when the like poles are put into alignment the force is greater than either alone. Keep making others happy and you have my guarantee, you will reap a fortune in happiness for yourself.

I would like to turn slightly, just as a pilot flying a plane must do to compensate for wind drift. We must control our plane of happiness as well, it is up to each individual to provide the course corrections required to make his own happiness, you are in control and your decisions, your choices, your friendships, your actions, your successes, your love, your efforts and what you do daily and over a lifetime will land you on the field of happiness where there is a grand welcoming committee waiting for you.

If we have it within our power to help another become happier, then we also have the power to do the opposite. It behooves each and everyone of us to work our best to create and spread happiness throughout the land. I didn’t say it is an easy task, but I do say, it is better to work toward happiness than the opposite end of this spectrum. After all, we may not be able to take our worldly possessions with us when we leave this earthly life, but we may leave something more valuable than those earthly possessions. Give it some thought, do your best and I am sure we will all gain from your efforts. Remember, you can’t force happiness, you can’t make it happen, but you can create happiness by doing and I will let you decide what you can do.

Happiness is like true love, you can’t make it happen, it has to happen openly, honestly and freely. Many of us, me included, have gone through periods of life where we tried to make people like us, It can’t be done. I had to learn that I had to “DO” things to make people like me, and those things had to be good things. I could go on and on with this subject and I have written many books with these ideas, but I am sure, I have gone overboard as usual.

Happiness is contagious.