"Life is too short so always choose to be happy."
What if we wouldn't have to face and go beyond mountains and distance to experience bliss and be bless? What if we just have to stay put and let the universe conspire with fate? I wonder if we'll be able to savor the best of this life by just staying put. Not constantly worrying of the unseen future and the uncertainties it holds. Purely trusting the will of time.
It irks my peace when I think about how irrelevant my existence, which then completely affecting my happiness. Like every time I choose to be happy, pieces of my shattered heart caused by my past interrupts and breaks the foundation of my bridge which I've built with all what's left of me to a better place of absolute glee. It's a never ending fight to have that assurance of happiness. Day by day, I have to fight and it's tiring.
Imagine how easy and convenient it would be when we say we choose to be happy and we get it right there and right then. No more thousands of reasons to stay at total impasse of vain, numbness and sorrow. Just getting it exactly how you want it with no problems and barriers to hold it, keeping you from embracing the happiness you ever wanted.
Life is short, that I certainly agree. However, always choosing to be happy is harder than it seems. Harder than how we can easily say it, spell or write it. Nothing is guaranteed even if you keep on choosing it. Because life will always put us into test. Always questioning if we deserve to be happy. Always stripping us with the little hope of being at peace. Always giving us options and setbacks to choose and stay in the corners of our head.
There's nothing wrong in choosing to be sad and validating your feelings through it. There's nothing wrong if you want to cultivate the weeds and be damned, always at the edge and on the verge of giving up. Because sometimes, happiness for other people is the darkness succumbing their silence and grief.
So maybe yeah, let's choose to be happy. And live this short life one step at a time.
