♥ WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD ♥: ♥ - WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD 03/06/2013

- I AM HAPPY -

The fact that I am happy or not,

do not depend on anybody,

but on me.
I am the only person upon which
my happiness depends.
I make the choice to be happy
in each situation
and in each moment of my life.

If my happiness

were to depend on other people,

on other things or circumstances

on the face of this earth,

I would be in serious trouble...

Everything that exists in this life

changes continually:

humans,

wealth,

my body,

the climate,

pleasures,

etc.

I could enumerate an infinite list!

Over my life

I have learned a couple of things:

It's not the responsibility of anybody

(my friends,my family)

to make me happy...

They also have their own experiences

or circumstances.

I love them

and they loves me,

often in spite of their circumstances

and of mine.

I decide to be happy

and the rest is a matter

of experiences or circumstances;

like helping,

and understanding,

accepting,

listening,

consoling;

and with them(Friends,Family)

I have lived

and practiced this many times

They change,

I change,

the environment changes,

everything changes;

Having forgiveness and true love,

and observing these

changes that can be,

big or little,

but always happen,

we must face them

with the love that exists

in each one of us.

If the two of us love

and forgive each other,

the changes will only be experiences

or circumstances
that enrich us

and give us strength.

Otherwise we would

only be living together.

To truly love is difficult.

It is to forgive unconditionally,

to live,

to take the experiences

or circumstances as they are,

facing them together

and being happy with conviction.

There are those who say:
I cannot be happy

because I am sick,

because I have no money,
because it's too cold,

because they insulted me,

because someone

stopped loving me,

because someone

didn't appreciate me...

But what you don't know

is that you can be happy

even though

you are sick,

whether it is too hot,

whether you have money or not,

whether someone has insulted you,
Or someone didn't love you,

or hasn't valued you.
BEING HAPPY
is an attitude about life

and each one of us must decide!

BEING HAPPY,

depends on you !

Look to this day -

for every day is a beginning ....

Get excited about who you are,

what you are,

what you have,

and what can still be for you.

Be inspired to see

that you can go far beyond

where you are

right now.

The fact is that

in order to do any thing

in this world worth doing,

we must not stand

shivering on the bank

thinking of the cold

and the danger,

but jump in

and scramble through

as well as we can.

~ Sydney Smith

"A single sunbeam

is enough to
drive away

many shadows"

-- St. Francis of Assisi

God doesn’t require us

to succeed;

he only requires

that you try.

- Mother Teresa

Remember

you will not always win.

Some days,

the most resourceful individual

will taste defeat.

But there is,

in this case,

always tomorrow –

after you have done your best

to achieve success

today.”

~~ Maxwell Maltz

A group of alumni,

highly established in their careers,

got together to visit their old university professor.
Conversation soon turned into complaints

about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee,

the professor went to the kitchen

and returned with a large pot of coffee

and an assortment of cups –

porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal,

some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite –

telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand,

the professor said:

“If you noticed,

all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,

leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.

While it is normal for you to want only

the best for yourselves,

that is the source of your problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself

adds no quality to the coffee.

In most cases it is just more expensive

and in some cases even hides what we drink.

What all of you really wanted was coffee,

not the cup,

but you consciously went for the best cups…

And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.

Now consider this:

Life is the coffee;

the jobs, money and position in society

are the cups.
They are just tools to hold and contain Life,
and the type of cup we have does not define,

nor change the quality of Life we live.
Sometimes,

by concentrating only on the cup,

we fail to enjoy the coffee

God has provided us.”

God brews the coffee, not the cups --

Enjoy your coffee!

MORAL

“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything.”
Live simply. Love generously.
Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to GOD