Are you a happy person?

[RitaZ.]

If not, there is hope. I read this article from WebMd and found it interesting.

My DH is a very optimistic person, I tend to worry excessively over things I can't control. It creates unnecessary grief at times, I'm working on changing or at least improving this.

http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/61/71452.htm?pagenumber=1

How about you?

 

[snoopy]

I'm generally a very happy person. It drives those around me nuts at times......

I'm also a morning person, very cheery and chipper in the morning, which also drives people nuts.......

 

[JC2]

Yes, I am a very happy, positive person. That doesn't mean, though, that I don't have difficult times.
I have learned that true inner happiness can not be changed or taken away as circumstances change. Happy is something you become. It is often accompanied by an inner peace that remains constant, as well.
I'm also learning that if you don't look for your happiness in others/in things, then other people and things cannot take it away.

 

[Kitty 34]

I'm usually happy.

 

[nativetxn]

I think that I'm a happy person.

 

[Hockeychic]

We moved up our trip to Disney

 

[binny]

Originally posted by snoopy
I'm generally a very happy person. It drives those around me nuts at times......

I'm also a morning person, very cheery and chipper in the morning, which also drives people nuts.......

me too and people around me hate it!! LOL


I am NOT a night owl anymore though.

Im in bed by 10 and out by 10:30 almost always!


Im a very happy person generally, but when Im down I get really down.

 

[helenabear]

It's funny, if you ask me about the outlook for someone else, I am very optimistic and very upbeat about it. If you ask me about my outlook of MY life, I am not. I usually think nothing good will come my way but good things happen to others. So I am able to be very happy for someone else, but you could say I am not the most postive person in the world. Then again, most the time I try to hide how I feel when I think about myself so maybe I ought to delete all I just said And yes, all I said negative about myself just there are things I really try hard to change.

 

[WDWLVR]

I try to be a very happy, positive person. Life's too short to be unhappy. Some days are hard. Today was one of those days as we had layoffs again I'm safe, but one of my team got cut. Tomorrow I will get up, thank God I have a job, and enjoy the day.

 

[RitaZ.]

Elaine, that's interesting that you see yourself that way. You come across as a cheerful and positive person.

I have come to a point in my life that I have decided to stop/change my tendency to worry. I worry about things that I have no control over. Here is an example of needless worrying. When my DS#2 was 3 yrs. old, I had him tested for a suspected language delay. He was found to have a slight delay in language, so he was started on language therapy. By the time he started Kinder, he was dismissed from the program. Then, I kept hearing from one teacher that children that have language delays usually have difficulty learning to read. Well, then I started worrying about that.

DH kept telling me that if it came to that, we would deal with it. That wasn't good enough for me... It was like I was trying to stop it, when I knew I had no control over it. Fast forward to this school year, DS is in 1st grade and did great in Reading. He even scored an 84% in Reading Comprehension this year (Student Achievement Test) . When I saw those results, I felt like kicking myself for wasting all that time worrying. Even if DS had had trouble learning to read, all my worrying wouldn't have changed anything.

That's it, it has to stop!!! There are better things for me to be doing with my time.

 

[helenabear]

Rita, as I said, I do try to hide my feelings dealing with myself from others. Those very close to me see it a lot more than the majority of the people out there and even some of my good friends rarely see that bad side to me. I can very easily be upbeat for others though

While I don't have kids so I have never had even an opportunity to worry about something like that, I can understand how you might feel. You should have seen me as our company went through massive layoffs for about 2 years running I wish I knew what the secret was to being fairly worry free

 

[browneyes]

I'm not as happy as I should be.

And I'm a chronic worrier. It's what I do.

 

[glo]

I try to act happy...I enjoy making others happy and that usually lifts my spirits, but to be honest I must be one of those people gentically happy challenged. Inside I am never happy, especially with myself. I worry alot too...about those I love, and hurting them. Usually it is me who gets hurt though.

 

[snoopy]

DH is the worrier in our family. He makes me nuts! He tends to dwell on stuff much longer than I do, too.

I just figure why worry about it? Its not going to change anything by worrying about it, plus the stress of the worrying is sure to make you sick.

 

[RitaZ.]

Glo, I don't know if you read the article, but one of the things suggested in it was to "act happy". I agree that it really does work.

Snoopy~ DH is just like you! It's really a blessing to be like that. I think our different personalities work well together, we compliment each other.

The one thing in my life that I want to change is the constant worrying. It's not easy to do, but I have to challenge my way of thinking.