Do you exercise your power of choice to make you happy or do you use it and let it make you angry. You have free will to choose what you do, how you do it and how you feel. About everything.
Say you have three friends and one of them wins $100,000.00 in the lottery. Now 100K is not a lot of money. It seems that way until you start spending it and then you begin to realize how little it really is. It might be enough to get a new car and pay off some bills but it’s not really a life changing event. At least not in a huge way.
So your one friend won the money and she’s very happy. Of your other two friends one is bery happy for the winner and the other is very angry and upset that she didn’t win. Of the two the happy one says how glad she is her other friend won and that now she can get her life a little more straightened up and have a few of the things she really wants. She’s actually glad her friend won.
The other friend of yours is very upset and angry that your friend won. Bitter because she herself didn’t win and says disparaging things about the friend who won, how she didn’t need the money and how she needed it much more than the friend who won it.
She bitches about it so much you don’t even want to be around her. She’s so angry that someone else won she gets depressed about it. I’m pretty sure you’ve seen that situation at least once if not many times within your circle of friends.
Now let me ask you this, which of your friends that didn’t win has the better and happier life? The one who is glad the other friend won or the one who bitches and complains and is angry your other friend won?
In general the person who is happy about the other friend winning will have the happier and better life. Not always but the vast majority of the time. Yes, there are exceptions to everything.
Why does one make the choice to be happy and why does the other friend make the choice to be angry? Always keep in mind that moods, happiness and anger or bitterness are choices that people make. It’s an exercise of free will. Which choice do you make?
Do you make the free will choice that will make you happy, calm and peaceful or do you make the choice that will make you angry and bitter? BTW, which of these two people gets more of the things they want, the one who was happy or the one who was bitter?
Making a choice to be happy almost always bring you more things to make you happy. Making the choice to be angry and bitter does the opposite and brings more angriness and bitterness into your life.
It’s a lot like my expecting a great parking space everywhere I go. My GF couldn’t believe it again the other day. We went 7 different places, on a Saturday and every place we went I got the absolutely closest parking space to the door that I could get. Even if the lot had been 100% empty.
This is what I expect to get. What does the happy person you know expect to get? What does the bitter, angry person expect to get. Lol, I bet they both get exactly what they expect, don’t they?
Does that make you think a bit or do you think it’s just a coincidence? Perhaps you ought to start making choices that bring you more happiness and see how much better your life will get.
It really is your free will to choose how you feel about something. Be glad when good things happen to others and more good things will happen to you.
