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Choose Happiness

By Charleco Scipio Jr.

As we are in the dawn of a new decade, and thus a new year, it is the time for New Year’s Resolutions.
If you are to have any new year’s resolution, then let it be this: Be Happy. Happiness is severely
underrated and critically undervalued. It’s the true wealth if you ask me. We all heard of the billion
and zillionaires who are so unhappy that they become depressed. Or the Starlet who is so bogged
down by the media, the press, paparazzi and her own image that she has a breakdown. We have
put so much focus on the things in life that don’t make us happy that we are forgetting how
important it is to just be happy.

Last decade was a roller coaster, I get. I understand in 2010 maybe you had to compromise you
happiness for a loved one’s. 2012 came around and maybe you had to stay at a job you hated
because you needed the money, but it didn’t make you happy. Maybe you couldn’t catch a break
in 2014 so you never had a chance to smile. Maybe 2016 caught you in school majoring in something
that you didn’t love doing, but you did it just to make your parents happy. Maybe life punched you in
2018 & 2019. You might’ve even gotten knocked over. But it’s alright. We are now in 2020. The only
way to go is forward. The last decade is said and done. We have a whole new decade, fresh out the
packaging.

As you go through this new year, nd who and what makes you happy and enjoy that happiness.
No need to go out and buy the latest gadgets. You don’t have to show up in the newest shoes and
clothes. You don’t need to even have “big bank”. You must make the choice to just be happy, and if
whatever you’re doing is not making you happy, then don’t do it. Choose Happy.
It’s as Bill Hicks famously said “It’s only a choice. No e ort. No work. No job. No savings of money.
Just a choice…”