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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 672423" data-attributes="member: 5724">Regardless of circumstance, regardless of "reasons," regardless of situation, regardless of "reality," the only choice I ever really make is...Happy or sad.I cannot control anything in the past or future. I cannot control the actions others do to me. I cannot control anything in the present except for my personal actions. I can control how I react.If something bad happens, i make the choice to feel bad or good. I may be unable to stop feeling bad for a while, but eventually i'll stop feeling bad. The harder i try, the faster it comes. The more i understand the faster it comes.It's much more apparant the other way around.  Its easy to make yourself feel bad.  Just remember all the terrible things that you've gone through. Remember everyone thats ever hurt you, or who you ever hurt.  Look around and see all the people suffering. Its easy for almost anyyone to make themselves feel bad.I agree with barsoomcore about the "angry with yourself" bit. I have a slightly different take. I think the world is perfect and all things are perfect.  Even the bad ones.  In the end, i think everything serves it purpose and everything is good, i just can't understand how everything is good and its this lack of understanding that makes me angry or frustrated. This is obviously a religious view and utterly contrary to common sense. For most people, that is... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />joe b.</blockquote>

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