Honesty Hour: Only YOU can make YOU happy....

The Beautiful Chrisette Michelle, Beauty @ It's Core.

What prompts this Honesty Hour is an email I was sent by a website I subscribe to Happy Black Woman run by Rosetta Thurman entitled No One Can Make You Happy. In the email Rosetta explains exactly why no one has the power (nor should they) to make YOU happy.

Here's an except:

“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.”
- David Burns
This is a common complaint in romantic relationships: “He doesn’t make me happy.”
Well, of course he doesn’t. Because he can’t.No one can “make” you happy.You might feel happy when you’re around your partner, but it is not their job to manage your emotions. In fact, no one in your life should have the responsibility for “making” you happy. (And vice versa.)
Think of what a burden that would be, to not only have to maintain your own well-being in life, but to also take on the task of managing the happiness of someone else. No matter what you do, it would seem like it’s never enough. The other person is bound to have bad days, and it would be emotionally draining to blame yourself for their discontent.

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It got me to thinking so hard about present situations in my life and somethings my friends have shared with me.

Why do we give so many people, things, and circumstances power over our happiness? sure, shit gets real and things happen that sometimes are out of our control and turn us sour...but for real??? you must see an UPSIDE to whatever's going on.

Life can be mean, cruel, and leave you so emotionally drained that you just say FU(K it!!!! and I don't blame anybody for being that way (I'm there myself). However, once it's all said & done the only thing we have control over is ourselves. Put yourself high above the fray, Dwell in a higher place mentally and FOCUS on the positive. Your Happiness is YOURS, stop letting negative people, things, and situations toss you into the mood of "NGAF". At the end of the day, we can't control the majority of the what happens to us, only how we respond to it.

Stop allowing  your happiness to be controlled by other people.

hard habit to break but what can you lose by trying????


Be your Number 1
& Most Importantly, DO YOU~