The Choice

I met an elderly man years ago, he was bagging groceries and because of my passion for the elderly my heart immediately ached too see him working at such an age. As if he could read my mind he struck up a conversation and he said we make the choice everyday to be happy or not. It's just that easy he said. I come in here daily after I've decided to be happy. I couldn't help but smile, because life was made simple by just one choice. An attitude adjustment to accept what must be and still smile, to have an inner peace that allows you to be happy. I'm beginning to understand why we must rejoice in the middle of a storm. Why we are charged with saying thank you. Why the beauty of the blue sky gives us hope after the rain. How the sun rises after the night's dark sky. What a waste if we didn't wake and the last memory we left was sullen because we failed to make just one choice to be happy.