Happiness is a choice
So what I want to encourage you to do today is to be present and to find happiness and contentment in this moment today. Be content with your weight. Be content with your income, be content with your spouse and your children, be content with where you are, but continue to strive and have more and be the best possible version of yourself. Because the reality is you don't have control of the future either. You only have control of the here and now
We will always have desires that we think will make us happy. But being happy on purpose, that has been my new model for life. I tell people, have a good day on purpose. Be happy on purpose. Be intentional about your day. Set the mood for your day. And I completely agree with you. I just really agree with everything you said
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:43
Some philosophies of thought and spirituality out there, particularly Buddhism, actually teaches against seeking pleasure, for pleasure can only bring about more pain and suffering. So if you are to rid yourself of that pleasure, you will find something truly divine and more powerful than happiness. Anyway, just my thoughts. Thanks for tagging me in the post
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
I don't necessarily know if everyone can choose happiness, especially if you've been indoctrinated from birth into darkness and trauma and another person said depression or other illnesses, specifically mental illness, that one would even recognize how to choose choice or choose happiness. And then what does that tangibly look like other than smiling? Right. We know the behaviors and the nonverbals and smiling and laughing and saying, a lot of sayings and figures of speech, but what does it genuinely look like?
I think anything can be trained out with neuropathways and intention and deliberation, but generally speaking, I feel like it's always far easier to look at the bad side of things and the good side of things. But yeah, anyway, this is a fun one. I like hearing all the different opinions and perspectives. Typically I don't listen to a whole dialogue, but this one was calling for it
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:42
It's not one that is evil, but is one's happiness another person's evil? Can we have universal happiness without question, that nobody can argue? And I guess that's where you get into biblical things and of your faith and devotion to your particular God or whatever that may be. But I guess I'm of the belief that it's just too complicated. Humans are too complicated to rest on this idea, merely that happiness is a choice
You. I apologize for the delay, but that was a great response, I think. Not to belabor the point, but what really, I guess, jumped out of me and what you said is maybe the definition of happiness and who's happiness and what does happiness mean? And, um even having the courage to poke holes in something, as you said, that people find very resolute is courageous, because I think that keeps the conversation going in terms of what that looks like for different people
So it is not uncommon for certain spiritual beliefs and practices to kind of meditate on things like death in one's fate. It's funny, I heard you and another guy talking about people with mental health and mental health issues. And can they choose happiness? I haven't told my story on swell yet, but I've been diagnosed with bipolar two disorder for maybe about 13 years now, probably even longer than that. I've had several suicide attempts, probably about three
My psychiatrist told me that I was one of the worst cases that she had as far as people that really dealt with the effects of bipolar from a chemical standpoint and from a mental standpoint. And so now we're six years later, going on seven years, and I have not been in a mental health facility. And my recovery has been amazing