You are Way Too Happy!

The other day at work as I walked down the hall and said hi to a co-worker, she said, "You are way too happy! My reply was, "No, I am not. You can't be too happy." What does that mean? No one has ever said to me, "You are way too serious." What made this especially ironic is the person who commented that I was way too happy, is a supervisor in the Employee Relations department. One of the problems in organizations and companies is that people take themselves way too seriously. However, we rarely hear a person telling another person that, "You are way too serious." In fact, I have never heard anyone say that to another person. We might say it about someone, but we don't say it to them.

It is like "misery loves company." It is like if I am miserable you must be miserable too. How dare you be happy when I am not. People can't rain on your parade unless you allow them to.

There seems to be a common thought that as an adult, a person has to have a reason to laugh, to smile, to be happy. People have asked me, "What are you smiling about?' What are you laughing about?" Why are you so happy?"

Happiness, laughter, and smiling seem to be very suspect. We seem to have to have a reason for all of those things. Research shows that we don't have to have a reason for being happy, smiling or laughing. As Abraham Lincoln said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Happiness, laughter, and smiling are all internally motivated. We choose to be happy. We choose to have fun. We choose our lives. We can't control what happens outside of ourselves but we can control our thoughts, feelings, and behavior about what happens.

The Law of Attraction says that if you are happy you will attract more happiness in your life. If you are sad you will attract sadness. What stops us from being happy, laughing, and smiling? One way is the belief that we don't deserve to be happy. Or that people or other outside circumstances keep us from being happy. Or we spend too much time living in the dead past or the imagined future instead of the present.

I believe we know to encourage each other's happiness, instead of being jealous. If you are happy does not mean that I can't be happy. This world is a world of abundance with enough to go around. Any scarcity is only a scarcity of our thoughts. We create that scarcity or abundance. We create our own happiness, and I don't think there is any way any of us can be too happy.

So join me in swallowing a double dose of delight and choose to be WAY TO HAPPY!

Jana Ruth
Author of Laugh and Live Happier: P.L.A.Y.S. for Life
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