You are in charge. That’s right, nobody controls your happiness but you.
It can be a scary prospect, wielding such influence over one’s own happiness. When we realize that happiness is within our control, there are suddenly no excuses, nobody to blame, no scapegoats. There is no more, “She made me angry” or “if only this would happen”.
We each control our own happiness, and we each choose when we will feel happy.
But sometimes it is easier to just let other people decide our happiness. That is why we so easily fall into reacting to others and their actions. But that puts our happiness in their hands. And if there is one thing scarier than placing our happiness in our own hands, it’s placing our happiness in somebody else’s.
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Once upon a time high above the night sky there was a Little Star. This Little Star was a bundle of energy, always excited and hardly ever remained still. When this star smiled the whole Earth was covered with light for an instant, and everybody felt warmth and love. It was an amazing thing to experience.
One day the Little Star stopped smiling.
Her friend, the Moon, asked why she was no longer smiling and the Little Star responded:
“I want to smile, but something has happened which has taken away my light.”
The Moon smiled at the Little Star and said:
“You can never lose your light little one. For you are the light, and the light is you. It is thanks to you that everybody around you including me is shining bright. So no matter what happens in the universe continue to smile and shine, and when you shine all the other stars will shine with you.”
The Little Star thought for a moment and smiled. It was true, she had been shining all along.
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Story by A.Chansamooth.
Image by A.David.
