What's your Narrative?

Yep, 100 % agree. That we choose to be happy. That choice is easier in some circumstances and very hard in others, but alway a choice.

 

I would add that it is a choice that requires repetition, which over time becomes a learned behavior / pattern. While there always is a genetic component, choice ultimately determines the patterns of your days and by extension, your life.

 

For clarity, I was thinking of the choice to be happy in the moment rather than just an accumulative effect of good choices leading to happiness.

 

Understood, and I completely agree with you in that, especially initially, happiness in the moment's "choice" can be very difficult depending on circumstances. What I was referring to was the accumulation of all of those daily little choices creating an emotional "muscle memory" type behavior. We humans if nothing else, are creatures of habit lol.

 

Both very true.