Live and Be Happy.

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”

- Audrey Hepburn

When I enter 2013, my new year’s resolution was simple: “I want to be happier than last year”

Being happy, I think, is the most wanted thing by every human being living in this earth. It’s something that all of us are striving to achieve in one way or another. Only, we often forget that happiness is a choice.

I’ve met people who placed their standards of happiness on other people’s life achievements. For example, people who think that they will be happy once they have a great sport car like their neighbour, people who think that they will be happy if they have a slender body like those models in the magazines, people who think that they will be happy if they are happily married like their parents or peers, and so on – and those people, they got frustrated when they couldn’t achieve that “happiness”

Fact is, you can be happy where you are right now if you choose to be.

People often asked me if being single ever bothers me – for me, it’s their question than bothers me most :p - well, it would be nice to have someone to be with but it doesn’t mean that it makes me less happy because I don’t let my happiness determined by someone else (or by my status). I’m single and I can say that I’m happy – something that still confuses most people. Being single means that I can still do a lot of things that people in a relationship (or married people) can’t do, things that you will miss having when you’re no longer single and trust me, there are a lot of them :))

You don’t wait for happiness to happen to you, instead it happens to you because you choose to be happy.

I can understand that many things in this life that are able to make us feel sad, upset, hurt, angry and bitter but to carry those luggage are too much for us in this short life. We need to learn to let go of the burdens and be grateful of life.

Being grateful is the first step of being happy. Being grateful means you can appreciate what you already have and be content with it. Being grateful means you are happy where you are, with what you have and with whom you are with. You don’t need to have anything or anyone in your life to make you happy because you are already content and you are happy with that.

Being content doesn’t mean that you are easily satisfied or that you no longer have the desire to go for the best. Being content doesn’t mean that you are happy with the status quo. No, being content is not to let anything keep you from being happy, from being grateful. You can always aim for the best and have your dreams but when things are going out of your expectations, those things won’t be able to keep you down and steal your joy.

There’s a beautiful quote that said, “Don’t just survive life, LIVE life.” – It’s true! Many people are merely surviving not really living because they’re too busy trying to make a living instead of living life. When we stop trying so hard to get all those things that we think would make us happy, that’s when life is happening then our heart will become larger and we will start to clearly see what we already have and be grateful for it and when we start to be grateful, we are choosing to be happy.

So, let’s start to LIVE LIFE and BE HAPPY! 