Happiness... Past, Present, Thoughts and Emotions

Thoughts, emotions walk together hand in hand. When you are having happy thoughts, you feel Happy. When your thoughts wonder about unhappy subjects, you feel unhappy. If a thought is the cause, the feel is the effect. That is why, in order to stay happy, you need to control your thoughts and shift them, toward happiness.

Some people might say, they don't have anything in their life to be happy about. Is that so? Well, a story might lead you to understand how you have everything.

Once there was a man. Strong man, successful man, attractive, he got any girl he ever wanted to get. He was rich and famous. People loved him very much. But, He was unhappy. So unhappy that he wanted to commit suicide many times. He walked in the street with unhappy face, only when a fan came by he had to switch into his happy face and give him his autograph.

One day, this man found a scientist, A crazy scientist. The scientist came to the man and told him, "I have something that will blow your mind". The man looked at him and didn't know what to do, he was so intrigue by this scientist, he felt something else, like he never before. The scientist teased him again, "What am I about to show you is the biggest secret of the universe. You mustn't tell anyone!"

The man went to his lab. "Come inside, don't be afraid". The man walked into the lab slowly, he had a strong feeling that this thing will change his life forever. Then he saw it, his jaw dropped and he couldn't even breath for couple of seconds. "This is it" says the scientist... It was a time machine. A huge time machine.

The man immediately asked the scientist to go to his past. He wanted to see himself as a kid. Talk to himself. The scientist sign him on some papers and let him inside.

The man got in, the scientist closed the door on him. Darkness arrived, it was only, the man and his thoughts. He closed his eyes. Moments later... he was there. In the past, he could see it, he couldn't touch anything, just see it as it is. He went to his parents house, got to his room and looked at himself, young, with many hopes.

He got closer to himself. Looked at the eyes of his kid self and saw it, the deprecation was there. It was exactly like today, everything, he was unhappy for not achieving his goals. Today he is unhappy because he did achieved his goals... This story has no ending to it since no one really knows what happened to this man. But, there are only 2 choices, one, he decided to be happy no matter what. Or two, he understood he will never be happy and committed suicide.

So... what are you happy about? I have stuttered all my life and it brought me a lot of misery. But now, I totally understand that it's useless. I better put my energies on the things I do have, like my health or my eyes where I can see people, or my brains which allows me to write these wonderful things. I thank the Universe for being so good to me, giving me food when I need it, giving me air to breath. Remember that 100 years back people didn't have those things, food was a hard work for everyone, paper to write wasn't so common, computers weren't even a thought in someone's head... Now doesn't that make you feel really happy for yourself?