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Smiles get more attention than tears. Just about everyone makes themselves miserable by focusing on the wrong things in life. Tears are more common than an honest smile. When someone sees an honest smile, they wonder how the person managed to find real happiness. It is a mystery to the chronically wallowing. Life is a shit sandwich, there is more shit than bread. The key to happiness is having acceptance for that fact, but moving your focus to the bread. Flowers, sunsets, good music, good food, beautiful people, exiting adventures. You choose your own levels of happiness by what you CHOOSE to focus on. Even in the most tragic of times, we must let ourselves feel the pain, avoidance is not the answer. But we must have acceptance for the things we cannot change and put our focus back on everything beautiful in this world. We are all responsible for our own happiness.