So many unhappy people around.
This is something I wrote some time ago.. Just popped it into my “drafts” folder. There it sat waiting for the day when we would be surrounded by a high percentage of unhappy people… and posting would seem the logical choice. Yep, the time has come again where we run into lots of unhappy people that ban together to enjoy their misery and spread it around. If we are lucky, they will mostly keep to themselves… but it never usually works out that way. Being away from workamping jobs, with the friendly staffs and rving neighbors, we have found there is somewhat… lonesome. But we still have lots of friends to visit here in the area. Long time Rving friends… and some old friends… like Mickey, Minnie, and princesses and villains… to keep us entertained.
Being satisfied with life around you is part of being happy.
If course, you have to be able to accept life around you to be satisfied… and satisfied to be happy. Ya may not like things, especially those out of your control, but it doesn’t mean you can’t still be happy. Now I’m sure I’m not an authority… but then again, what does most authorities really know beyond what they were taught. Don’t get me wrong… what you are taught has a important benefit… but it’s not beneficial when it negates the ability to use common sense. When that same person is closed minded and what they were taught inhibits learning from day to day experiences because it conflicts or don’t conform to what they expect and were taught… well… there’s got to be some short comings somewhere. Perhaps that’s why so many people are not satisfied. What they have learned leaves them with a closed mind… a ridged expectation of life… and when it’s not what they expected… they’re not satisfied or happy.
Well here’s a shocker… life is never what you expect. It’s always changing! It’s seldom as you expect or want. It’s how you deal with those changes that make or break you… happy or dissatisfied. Believe it or not… it really is a personal choice. It starts with wanting to be happy… accepting life around you… making the adjustments in mental attitude to change or accept situations and be satisfied with your results.
Seems like more and more people are dissatisfied because things in life aren’t going their way. Because they can’t be satisfied, they can’t be happy. More and more it takes over their life. Some turn to alcohol, some to drugs, some to both. Both are a slide into a personal life is non-acceptance, dissatisfaction, and becoming ever increasingly unhappy.
It’s all up to you, your outlook, your mental attitude… why are so many people dissatisfied and unhappy. Why do they choose to always be unhappy and reject acceptance and change… especially when something is out of their control. I don’t get it… why choose to go down that road… choosing to be unhappy. Letting their dissatisfaction with life influence how they negatively interact with others.
Perhaps some of it is simply genetics… they can’t cope with anything beyond what they expect. This may be some of the factors, but I can’t help but feel that the majority of the unhappiness is self imposed. That is, in itself, something that is hard to understand… what makes people “choose” to be unhappy. Beyond me.
With young people, I somewhat can understand it. But as we all get older shouldn’t we all have learned something in life as to help us cope with changes better. Sadly, it seems that this is not true. Spending lots of time around people I’m amazed with the level of unhappiness. They can’t accept change, they want what they want, they are not always going to get it, so they are dissatisfied… ever increasingly with more and more things, and lead a life that is not happy.
This would all be fine if they were all someplace else. Someplace away from the happy people of the world… where they could all be unhappy together and not negatively annoy those that have found a way to lead a happy life. Perhaps our happiness bothers them, they want what we have, they can’t get it, so they seem to strive to make us unhappy too. Like the old saying… “Misery loves company”.
Yep… I understand why they are unhappy… but I truly don’t get why they choose to be miserable… when they have a choice that they refuse to see. I don’t like being around people when they are just can’t be happy with anything. Who does… except the “unhappy’s” that band together to re-ashore each other that life is miserable and they are justified in feeling the way they do. You would think that being older, they would realize that the old saying applies even more so at their age… “Life is too short to be unhappy”… and at this age… getting shorter by the day. So why have a self imposed misery. I certainly don’t understand it.
Forty some years ago…
I got some advise on how NOT to worry and be unhappy.
It’s all about choices and how you look at everything.
Can you change it? If yes, do it. If no, forget about it.
Change it now? If yes, do it. If later, forget about it for now.
Ya may not like what you can’t control… don’t let it control you.
So if life starts to get you down, even a little…
remember you have a choice to be happy.
It’s a choice!
