When I was fifteen, I met someone who told me that she had decided when she was a teenager that she was going to be happy. She managed it, too-- I never saw her be less than positive, encouraging, and joyful. It took me a few years to internalize, but now I'm trying to live that way, too.
Lately I've found myself writing in my journal things like 'by old standards, today would be a terrible day, but I'm still happy...' and 'I'm ecstatic and I have no real reason to be.' I'm learning to get my emotions from inside, rather than out. To someone older and more enlightened, it might seem pretty basic, but it's a huge breakthrough for me.
On the stranger end of the spectrum: since I decided to live a happy life, my intuition works far better, and I've found I experience far more synchronicties. Has anyone else experienced this? Perhaps it has to do with the 'happiness attracts success' principle, but at a different level.
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