Posted by alexandra_k on March 18, 2005, at 4:37:06
In reply to Re: Happiness, posted by Susan47 on March 17, 2005, at 23:34:04
> The biggest thing in my life has been learning that my happiness all comes from inside, ALL of it. I generate it; and when it isn't there, nothing I have makes it come. There's a lot of power in knowing that.
Thats what I thought too... Until one of my therapists (a good one) tried to show me otherwise. I still think happiness is an attitude that we adopt but I have come to agree that there can be environmental factors that impact on our ability to adopt such an attitude.
She asked me whether a starving leper in India would be able to feel happy.
I thought yes, it was possible.
She asked me whether it was likely that a starving leper in India was happy.
I thought no. Most probably not.
Some people seem to have a greater capacity to adopt that attitude than others...
And some people find themselves in an easier environment to be able to adopt that attitude in...
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