I truly believe....

That we owe it to ourselves to be a happy and content person. Yeah, life gets us down sometimes... you don't do well in the GRE, you get a bad grade for an exam, the friends you're with don't get along, your professor just ruined your day by calling you out in class, the guy you like don't exactly think that being friends with you is a good decision, the people you work with turn out to be jerks... but at the end of it all, I think it is up to ourselves to try and make ourselves happier. What is the use of dwelling on sad and angry emotions if it's going to end up consuming your mind and you can't even eat, sleep, party or do homework.

I know, easier said than done right? But honestly, life sucks sometimes. And the things we want end up slipping from our grasps. But what can we do about it? It happens. "Shit happens," as Joliana would always say. I say it's okay to wallow in sadness and anger and annoyance for a period of time, that's natural. But then after that short wallow period, I think we owe it to ourselves to pick up our feet and get on with our lives. I honestly don't think that it is at all healthy to those emotions consume your daily life. Why on earth would you want yourself to be miserable and let down by all these shitty things that life throws you. Dwelling in your hole of negative emotions only mean that you're letting yourself be defeated. Do you not love yourself enough to want to be happy? Do you not look around and see that other people around you are worried about you? Do you honestly think that wallowing in your so called 'grief' is going to change anything? It's not going to change anything.

You either choose to move on, or you continue shedding those useless tears. And honestly, why on earth would you want to waste your emotions, your thoughts, your tears... on a person who has continually hurt you, or who doesn't even really care about you? Why would you let your anger out on other people just because you are unhappy? You can't force circumstances to change directions. What you can do is to live with those circumstances and make peace with them. If you make a step and you realize that it's the wrong one, you can always take a step in a different direction, and the more steps you take, the further you will get from that wrong path. It doesn't mean that you wasted your time and energy taking that one wrong step, at least you know the outcome of that path and won't forever be wondering.

If you don't make that choice to be happy with yourself and the decisions you make,
it doesn't matter that it's a sunny day outside and the birds are chirping...
it doesn't matter that your friends are going out of their way to cheer you up...
it doesn't matter that you have a huge slice of yummy chocolate cake in front of you...
it doesn't matter that your favorite song came on the radio just as you turned it on...
Nothing will matter...
until you decide that you owe it to yourself to be happy.

Correct?