Happiness is a matter of how you feel

There must be some reason for the fact that there are some people who can be happy and some who cannot. Mountain climbing enthusiasts are happy even when they are only talking about mountains. They even enjoy the difficulties and hardships of climbing. Similarly, people who seek happiness can be happy even when they only talk about happiness. They even enjoy making the effort required to achieve happiness. Happiness is a matter of not only how you appear to be but also how you feel. And you may be happier when you are making an effort to be so than when you are at the end of such effort, because you are full of hope during the time you are making the effort. If you find a person who glows with hope and appears to be happy, observe the face of the person. By simply observing you will somehow become happy. Even the person who puts on a happy face will experience a deeper, more genuine happiness when he realizes that through his cheerful expression he has brought feelings of happiness to anther person. On the other hand, if you repeatedly put on an unhappy face, you will, sooner or later, feel real unhappiness. We may all plant the seeds of our happiness and unhappiness ourselves. The desire to bring happiness to other people is a wonderful thing. If you make flowers of happiness bloom in other personsf minds, you will be happier than the other persons by seeing the beauty of these flowers. Rather than thinking of happiness as something that is coming in the distant future, isnft it a good policy to start now to try and fill our present reality with the flowers of happiness? Wearing just a little happiness on your face now is nothing but planting seeds of happiness for the future. If you, by repeating this, make an abundance of flowers bloom, the persons around you will be able to be cheerful in proportion to the number of flowers.