Debbie

If we can choose to be happy can we also choose to be sad?  Then their are those that are happy being measurable? Happiness its complicated… or not. We work for that which no work is required

It is important to define the terms we use. How do you define happy and not happy. How do you know when you are. Then you can go down the rabbit hole and try to answer the question what is choice, what does it mean to choses… free will, fate. For some going down the rabbit hole might leave them feeling happy for others not so much.

Personally I find the act of measuring such things as happiness is a sure fire way to lose it. Having grasped it once we will attempt to hang on and if we can’t hang on try to recreate. But that like trying to touch the exact same water twice when one steps into a river.

I like the concept of mindfulness which isn’t exactly choosing to be happy (which would be an attempt to control the moment = hello ego and desire) so much and being open to the moment where things like happiness may be experienced.

I suspect “Being” in the moment, even those we may rather not be in, one might just be happy.