How To Get Away With Happiness

In A World Designed To Make You Feel Guilty

Are you suffering from happy guilt? Are you bashed for feeling happy while the world is crashing around you?

How can you celebrate when others are being oppressed? How can you enjoy your life while people are dying?

People will find a million reasons to try to guilt you into not living your best life. Don’t let them.

Life isn’t always easy. Things change and what was once easy can become hard. Just getting up in the morning to get going can be a chore for many people.

Living takes effort. It takes effort to get up in the morning and get going. It takes energy to walk and talk. Life is not effortless. As we get older, bogged down by aging bones and fading memories, it takes more effort to live.

Sometimes the things we take for granted today can become tough tomorrow. Some thrive and make living look effortless. Some struggle and we can see how hard life can be.

Rejection, illness, and tragedy are apart of life. No one escapes unscathed. So, how do they do it? How do people live a happy life?

They live. They get out and enjoy the moment. They take strolls in the park, play with animals, and splash around on the beach. They find hobbies they enjoy doing. They go out and socialize. They serve others. They find their purpose.

They are grateful for what they have. Dreaming is fun but to stay in a perpetual state of wishing for more, ignoring what you have, can leave you in a state of despair.

Somewhere along the line, it’s become taboo to share your happiness. The positive thinking revolution seems to be fading away. People are over it.

If you constantly consume the news from the numerous media outlets then you may think the world is always on the verge of collapsing. How can you be happy with a pandemic, looting, murder, racism, global warming, and political unrest swirling around you?

I’ve seen people who have attempted to share happy news blasted with ugly messages shaming them for being happy in these unhappy times.

No one cares more about you and what you are doing than you. Make decisions designed to improve your life without worrying about what others think.

You can be happy if you choose to be. Make a conscious decision to go out and do the things you know that will make you happy.

• Take care of the basics. Eat healthily, sleep well, and stay hydrated.
• Don’t let a bunch of strangers emboldened by the anonymity of the internet dictate how you should live your life. Unplug when you need to.
• Eliminate the toxic people in your life that do not celebrate your successes.
• Stop wishing and start doing.
• Create an environment of positive people and positive things that augment the beauty of your life.

Remember that your opinion of your life matters most. Do what brings you joy and you just might get away with being happy.