Outlook

out·look/ˈoutˌlo͝ok/

Noun:

A person's point of view or general attitude to life. A view.   I hear people complaining all the time about how bad their life is. It's like it's a competition. "Who can make their life sound the worst." What's the grand prize, you ask? I BIG, FAT nothing! That's right nothing. Be happy if your reading this because I just saved you from making your life miserable, to just get "the grand prize". I mean really all of us go through hard things, we all have people who die, people who leave us, we don't make the team we hoped for, etc. Our lifes are either good or bad depending on how we choose to look at things and deal with things. You have to learn to let go. For example I had a friend who's brother took his life. It was so sad and it was hard, she still misses him, but she had to moved on. The rest of her family didn't and you can see how something that happened four years ago is holding them back and making their lives miserable. My friend she is happy, successful and moving forward. It really is your choice whether you're going to be happy or miserable. I'm not saying you can prevent whether bad things happen to you or not,  because they are going to happen. Not just to you, but to everyone. You do have control on whether or not it's going to control the rest of your life. Remember this isn't a competition to see who's life is worse. If you want your life to suck, it will. If you really want to be happy, you will be. I know plenty of you will argue with me about this, but really think about it. Have you ever met somebody who seems to be THE happiest person alive? And you think to yourself how in the world is that possible? Then you get to know them and you hear all the hard things that have happened to them, thinking "your life should suck!" "Why are you so happy?" Like sometimes it bugs me, I mean absolutely drives me crazy. Because I'm sitting over here pissed off, hating the world and thinking how bad my life sucks for the stupidiest reason. And they actually have to right to be pissed off and hate the world, but they are happy. It's those people that make me realize, it is possible to be happy. Happiness doesn't just show up on some lucky person's door step. Happiness is a choice.