Why is it so hard for people to accept others are happy?

A few weeks ago after a bad few days where everything got to me and ground me down I decided No More !! I was absolutely at an emotion rock bottom where other peoples actions ruled my day and wore it down until I just couldn't take anymore.

So I made a decision.. to be happy.

To wake each morning and smile.

To smile my way through the day and not let anything or anyone change that outlook, no matter what that day threw at me. Be true to myself !

Sounds easy doesn't it. Try it, it's not.

Thing is once the decision was made it was almost like a switch in my brain was thrown from one side to the other. Since that day I have oozed happiness. I have reacted positively to every set back, brushed most of, others I have laughed where as a few weeks ago I would have fumed. I haven't smiled 24/7 but I haven't been glum or miserable. I would describe it as a new found sense of levelness with many hours of happiness.

However it seems my happiness doesn't rub off on others in the main. Most ask, What are you on?

What new pills are you taking?

I'm not !!

Some even say, stop it. Stop being happy. WHY ???

Few believe that I made a conscious decision but I don't care, I will continue on my own path. Walk my own way and be true to myself.

I am the sum of my battles, my scars and my new changing attitude to life. It takes more courage to smile and let things go than it does to be angry with things that you cannot change. Why waste that energy when you can use it positively

So smile !! Life really is too short for anything else

Highway code for walkers

Seriously some people need lessons in walking !! Go to a busy street, find a safe place to watch from, stop and just watch the chaos.  

People unlike motor vehicles don't walk in straight lines. They are constantly wandering off at all angles, tangents in weave in and out of other walkers. You are more likely to get "cut up" by a walker than a car sometime multiple times a day.

Walkers listening to music, staring transfixed at their phones, chatting to a fellow shopper, walking at different speeds, everyone is literally a hazard to be avoided.  

Today I witnessed someones walker rage first hand and for a change it wasn't directed at me but at someone who walked out of a shop door straight into a person who was walking down the street minding their own business. No one looks they just step out, yet you wouldn't do that in a vehicle or on a push bike. Literally handbags at six paces but neither would apologise to the other or admit they were in the wrong.

This happens everyday yet people mill around and rely on others to move out of the way. It seems these days if you are the stronger you walk in your way and everyone else responds accordingly. What the hell happened to all of us?

We need taught at a young age how to respect each other even when doing such a simple task as walking !