Note for myself

It is a new year which is still a couple of days old. If you feel happy about the new year, stay happy. Don't let people around you who don't celebrate the new year and are not so happy about it let your happy spirit down. Stay happy until the year ends. Try.

I was on Facebook on the last new year's eve and noticed some people being bitter about the fireworks and hanging out on the eve and basically celebrating the moment. As much as they have reasons for being bitter about all of that, don't let them let you down. Every moment is worth capturing. If you want, take your camera with you most of the time. Nothing happens twice exactly in the same way. Capture the moment. Avoid people who would usually turn you down. This new year should be the right time for a good change. Being always happy is not an easy thing to do. But, try. I will myself.

I posted this post because I've met people who keep saying that another year is just another year, and I was often influenced by them by simply agreeing. No, keep the good spirit. Nothing is ever the same. Nothing is really just another. Make a change. Make it not boring at all. Once again, try.

Try to think of needing to stay happy if you face negative people trying to turn you down.

Keep the good celebrating spirit. We certainly need more happy people. Avoid wars.

Perhaps another good reason why I'm making this post is so that I will feel embarrassed if I ever feel let down by someone or something and not try to take the good side out of a negative or bad situation. Last year was admittedly one of the toughest years I had to go through. A lot of lessons I could learn from it. The silver lining is I am able to say all this.

This should be one of a few of my new year's resolutions. Simply become a happier person.

And, just because you want to always be happy doesn't mean you always need to smile and look smiley all the time 'cause that'd be just plain weird! Hahahaha. Point is stay happy in the most appropriate way.

Stay happy by taking the best side out of every situation.
Stay happy by taking a deep breath and taking a few seconds thinking before you get all mad and angry.
Stay happy by doing things with your heart.
Stay happy by making other people happy.
Stay happy by being yourself in the most positive way.

Show your friends and others a good example even though it sounds or feels very awkward. You never know they will remember the example and have a less hesitation to do it to other people. I remember very well several moments with my brother where I recently showed him a few good examples and later he tried to be more comfortable doing them which used to be things that he was too shy to do. I noticed. I had a proud smile in my head.

And, obviously, I'm being very cheesy right now with this post and pretty dang sure tomorrow when I re-read this post I will be tempted to want to remove it ;))
But, no, I never will.
Because I want to try to make a happy year this time.

[Leave me with your thought(s)]

Post Scriptum

Later addition: This post was made to mainly motivate myself in the future if I ever feel down about something. If you feel motivated to want to stay happy, I will be happy for you. I'm not trying to make anyone happy unless they want to be happy. And... I might need to count how many times the word Happy has been mentioned ;))

12:26PM: I just found out that I passed the acceptance test for the Masters Degree I applied for :D

5:44PM: Sensei texted to inform today's class has been cancelled. Bummer. Hahaha. You can never get away from bad news, I guess ;))