I wish being happy were as simple as deciding that it was going to be so. We would wake in the morning with a smile on our faces and it would stay there all day. Instead, life comes with different challenges that make us continuously revisit our desire for happiness as we find our way through.

We all have tough things we face, especially now as we fight the pandemic. There have been days when all I want to do is pull the blankets back over my head and hibernate, however I know that isn’t going to change anything. If I can get myself up, I can take this challenge on with positive energy and find a way to move through this day and share happy moments with my husband.  There will be successes, some things will be tougher and there may even be failures, but if I remember that this will pass and there are better times ahead, we will make it.

So, rather than choose to be happy, I will choose to be positive in all that I do and I sincerely believe that the happiness will be the outcome.