The secret to being happy

HELLOZ

Well, last night, I was up 'till 2 am with my friends, talking about life, and we started getting into the deep stuff, then I started lagging, and I couldn't express all of my feelings, so here we go ._.

Starting off, sometimes you can't do anything about it. Let's be real here, the conditions in which you were born are purely luck-based. You could be rich, average, poor or in war at the start of your life, and you have no way of preventing that or choosing that. When I was born, I was awake in an Asian household, with strict parents who fought very often, and four sisters. My house was okay, my previous house happened to be a medium-sized one with a really big set of stairs. So, in that case, my start of life wasn't horrible. But some people aren't so fortunate, when you're born, you have predetermined conditions, and don't be one of those people who say that: "If you're parents made more of an effort, there wouldn't be luck." because that's bullsh*t. Life just isn't fair sometimes, you could've lived a good life up to now, then tomorrow? Tornado. Who knows who it killed, who knows what it destroyed... sometimes, life can be a d*ck. But, there is a way to divert yourself from sadness when you're going through it.

Think of the good things, no matter what, and amplify that feeling. When you have a choice, make it, don't just leave it there. If you have a choice, do it. JUST DO IT, DON'T LET YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS AND JUST DO IT. I've lived in a strict household, and my sisters have told me that they softened up a bit after coming to Canada, but they were still strict. And sometimes, I couldn't take that. I cried and cried and cried. I got hit for the littlest things, or the biggest ones, got insulted frequently by my parents and I was just too weak to withhold my emotions, and then they got even more mad. But, I've always found a way.

Late at night, I was telling my friends that I actually liked my life up to now, and they called BS xD. After hearing what I went through, they found it hard to see how I actually liked everything thing I went through. So I explained myself. It's not that I was happy all the time, I was sad most of the time to be honest, my house isn't a very loving one, and I probably needed affection when I was little. And to be completely honest, I didn't have many friends to talk to. I wasn't close to anybody. High school got a lot better, I was able to make lots of friends near the end of it. But my house didn't change, it was still pretty bad. And yet, I liked it. Lots of bad things may have happened, but good things did too. It's not like when I woke up everyday, I wanted to murder the world and curse God for all he's done to me, I actually generally woke up in a good mood. Why? Well, school was actually something to look forward to. Even if I didn't have many friends, it was just a more open environment, and I was able to speak my thoughts and let out everything. There weren't many reasons for me to be sad at school. Even when I came home, it's not like poop starting raining on me (though it was like that this summer, but that's another story), I came home, did my chores and... yeah, that's it. I ate supper and stuff, did my work, chatted online and that's it.

When I think back on my life, I don't look at the bad stuff, I look at the good stuff. And that's how I judged how much life has given me, by the good stuff. Like I was saying at the start, I had the choice to be happy or sad, I just happened to be lucky. Some people just can't sometimes, life sucks, and that's very sad. But to those who have a choice, look up. Why see the glass half-empty when it could be half-full? To those given the opportunity, to those who still can, I ask of you to do so. Because like I said, life sucks, and if you don't take that chance, it might just leave you. And you don't want to leave that opportunity to luck. I RAMBLE A LOT I'M SORRY XD 

Alice Lieberg