The way you see it

As much as some situations in our lives compel us into thinking so, life doesn't play any favorites. Everyone has their own share of highs and an equal number of lows. Just that an individual's share doesn't resemble everyone else's. To a large extend it really does depend on the way you see it. No matter what life throws at you, it doesn't take away from you your right to choose. You always have a choice between happiness and sadness. You have to deliberately choose happiness over everything else, because this life wasn't given to us to spend it in misery.

You can always find opportunity in adversity, if you so wish.That one bright ray of sunlight is sometimes just waiting to be discovered. You can either choose to celebrate life or spend every moment of it dwelling upon it's lacks. And trust you me, even though some circumstances overwhelm you like no other, there is always a reason behind why stuff happens. At times you realize it in a jiffy and sometimes it takes you a lifetime!

No one leads a fairy tale existance but how grand your life ultimately turns out to be depends on what you make of what you get. You can either celebrate a layoff or let the trauma affect you to the brink of a nervous breakdown. You can either look at an end as a new beginning or spend the rest of your life figuring out why it happened the way it did. Someone really bright once remarked "You don't have to live with pain". Which made tremendous sense to me.  Yes you don't have to. The downs in our life teach us more than the ups ever can. Every day sees you a lot wiser and stronger than the previous day. 

When you think that you can't handle something, "take it one day at a time". You have practically no idea what surprises life can spring at you by the day end. Life is meant to be lived and each moment celebrated and if you look hard enough, there are many reasons it gives you to cheer. For a friend who cares for you like no other. For a family that stands by you rock solid even as your world crashes in front of your eyes. For a meal of bland food, because you know that it is better than going to bed hungry. For all the little comforts that we take for granted.For all the people who make living such a pleasure. For everything that awaits you. For everything that you've ever dreamt of.

Some one by the name of Henry Ward Beecher once said "Don’t look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it"

And On a parting note:

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.