Decisons, decisions...

You know that feeling you get, when everything just seems to go completely wrong? It's just one thing after another, and not even necessarily big things. They can be the dumbest little things that honestly wouldn't matter if they were on their own. When it's thing after thing after thing after thing, with no break, not even for five whole minutes, in between. A few dumb little things, a huge thing, another dumb thing, ohmygodtheworld'sgonnaend hugeness, few more little things...
Of course you know that feeling.
And so do I.
And so does he.
And your uncle does, too.
I believe everyone in the entire world knows that feeling.
I'm getting tired of living life this way. I wish something to go right for a change, I want there to be peace and happiness and unity.
But what I want even more than that?
I want people to stop complaining. I want people to realize that this is life and no amount of wishing is going to change it.
I don't mind if you come to me with your problems and what not. If I'm your friend, then the fact is that I love you and I'm here for you when you need me. I'm not getting tired of helping to relieve you of some of your stress. I think I'm strong enough in my relationship with God that I don't let your issues weigh me down because I give them straight to Him and let Him deal with them through me how He wants to. I'm here for you, and we all need someone to talk to often.
What I'm getting tired of is people letting their circumstances affect their emotions and how they live their life to the point that they rarely, if ever, find joy and comfort.
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to focus all your emotions on your surroundings in this world, or you can choose to let God deal with it through you and focus completely on Him.
I lived a good portion of my life listening to talk radio. Every week day at 10 a.m. my dad would be listening to the Dennis Prager show. Prager played a very large role in framing the way I view happiness.
I used to suffer from severe depression. It's a whole long story that I really don't want to get into now, but feel free to ask me about it sometime. Anyhow, one thing I heard Dennis Prager say during the "happiness hour" one day really woke me up to the mistake I was living in my life at the time. He said something along the lines of, "Just as a person would say when they get a cold that they are a healthy person who is sick, when we're sad, we shouldn't say, 'I'm a sad person.' Rather, we should say, 'I am a happy person who is sad.'" It seems kinda silly, but it's amazing how much thinking this way changes your whole perspective on life.
So seriously. Quit going on and on about how terrible your life is. Everyone else's lives are just as bad, if not worse. Instead, decide to be a happy person who is going through some tough situations. Remember that this life only lasts so long, and that spending it beating yourself up, being depressed, worrying, etc. is a complete waste of your time. Rather you should be focusing on building your relationship with God and building up your joy in Him so that, when the time comes, you can be a strong pillar for those who were too blind to see Him sooner.

It really is just as simple as a decision. So what will you decide?