Meditations on God

If you are waiting for other people to behave the way you want before you are happy, you will never be happy.

The world and its people will rarely, if ever, do exactly what you want.

Even if things do go exactly as you had hoped, you are still not guaranteed to be happy.

While your experiences and your relationships obviously play a large role in how you feel, your happiness cannot and should not be entirely contingent upon external factors.

Separate from your expectations, regardless of outcomes, and often in spite of what others say or do, you must decide to be happy.

You will not always be happy simply because you decide to be, but if you do not make that decision, if you are waiting for some circumstance, relationship, or event to come your way before you find peace, joy, and contentment, you will be continually disappointed.

Make a decision to be happy now and, when life lets you down, re up on that decision as many times as is necessary until it becomes reality.