Choosing happiness.

Happy Friday morning everyone! Today's blog post is not as personal as the one's I've been doing lately... figured it'd get a bit boring if I constantly talked about myself! Today I want to clear things about what I mean by being happy, and what my aim is from writing a 'positivity/happiness' blog.
Hope you enjoy!!!

I realise that some of you may read my posts and think 

'Jesus how can she be THAT happy all the time' 

or

'This must be forced - no one can always be happy'

or

'She must have a happiness gene that didn't get passed on to me'

or something along those lines. But the truth is no I am not happy all the time and no I was not born with a permanent grin on my face and a genetic disposition to being happy 24/7. 

I saw this picture on Pinterest (I love Pinterest) and I figured that at some point I needed to do this post to make it clear to people that positivity and happiness does not come naturally. 

I choose to be happy! And choosing to be happy is the best decision I make each day. It doesn't happen every day - a lot of the time when I'm being moody, I think to myself how can I write blog posts about being happy with overbearing enthusiasm and be acting like this 24 hours later? The answer to that question is that it is normal to have bad moods and see everything grey once in a while, I promise. If I was happy all the time I'd annoy myself! You are allowed to be in a mood for no reason, you are allowed to be sad in a sad situation - do you think I watch those really sad puppy videos and just go 'hey, don't cry about that puppy dying there's no room for that negativity in this mind of positivity'? No. I don't. I cry for a week about it, want to cry for another week about it and just feel generally sad about there being such cruelty in the world where puppy's go to heaven. 

The point. By choosing to be happy and not forcing it unnaturally every second of the day it actually helps your positivity more. When you're down after feeling happy for 5 days straight you think back to when you were happy and realise that you felt better. So you choose to be happy again. You do things that make you happy. You listen to music and watch movies that make you feel good. You eat ice cream and drink hot chocolate. You read a good book, you go for a walk or to the gym. You arrange to meet with a friend or message a family member asking how they are and before you know it you're not down anymore. Forcing yourself to be happy just for the sake of saying you're a happy person has the opposite effect - your mouth aches from smiling too much, your brain hurts from thinking too much about saying the 'right' positive thing to say and in the end it annoys you so much you become bitter about it! 

I guess what my advice is to you is to embrace your emotions! Emotions are there for a reason and we need all our emotions to have a healthy well-being but make a conscious effort to do things that make you happy, to avoid things that don't make you happy and to enjoy your life no matter how bad you think it's going. Look at everything as an opportunity to better yourself and by doing these things you are choosing to be happy! 

So I am not an annoyingly happy person all the time. If you saw me walking down the street with my headphones in and my resting b**ch face on you would not BELIEVE that I regularly posted on a happiness/positivity blog. But hey, maybe I'm just having a bad hair day and that's okay because 2 minutes later my favourite Taylor Swift song would come on and I'd choose to let THAT happiness take over! 

It's a beautiful day outside today (where I am anyway) and it's the end of the week so if you're reading this and have woken up a little bit grumpy, I hope now you're seeing that actually, yeah you may be in a bad mood but that's not going to ruin your Friday!

Have a wonderful weekend and thank you for reading! 

Paige xxx