“How am I supposed to be happy in this stressful world where I am stretched in all directions by all sorts of people?” Like everyone else, you are probably finding it hard to stay on the happy side of life.

Both you and I know that being happy and staying optimistic in life is essential to be in the pink of health. Still, it is doubtful if something like that is achievable in this modern society. Stress seems to be always poking its head into everything we do.

Therefore questions such as “How am I supposed to be happy, truly happy?” keep popping up in our minds and yet not many of us manage to find a satisfying answer to it.

Staying happy is an attitude and it depends greatly on how we choose to be happy. In fact, one of the easiest ways to allow happiness into your life is to allow love into your life.

Stay happy, Stay in love!

If you want to stay happy, investing the time and effort to build good relationships with people around you is very important.

In fact, majority of our unhappiness stems out from the sour relationships we have with other people:

• Colleagues
• Children
• Spouse
• Parents…

Crashes and heated arguments with the loved ones around us is one of the biggest barriers to us attaining our happiness. Thus, in order to constantly stay on the happy side of life, the first thing you want to do is to build will with the people around you.

First, you have to let go of the need to be always right. In an argument, no party is right or wrong. Both parties just hold different viewpoints of the same world, that’s all. The thoughts and beliefs we have are not the real depiction of the whole world, although it may seem to be that way.

We all grow up under different circumstances and being taught different things by different people. Thus, inevitably, every one of us holds different belief and value systems.

Always wanting to be right is a sure way to unhappiness and to invite unnecessary stress into your life as you will constantly be engaged in unproductive conversations with the people around you. Have you realized how tiring and taxing it can be to “convince” others to accept your point of view?

And to answer your question, “How am I supposed to be happy in life?” one of the simplest ways is to accept others for what they are. You can seek to lend them a helping hand when they asked for it, however do not attempt to change others’ beliefs or values in accordance to yours without the other party’s consent. That can be disastrous to your relationship with the other party.

Seek to listen and understand. Hold back your advice unless requested for.

Give up resentments and forgive others. How can you seek to be truly happy when you keep on holding on those negative and disempowering emotions within you?

Look no further than yourself to find your true happiness. As what Abraham Lincoln mentioned, “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Therefore rather than constantly questioning yourself “How am I supposed to be happy in this stressful world?”, why not replaced it with another more empowering question such as, “How happy am I choosing to be today?” That will do the trick to you finding your true happiness in life.