Shiny happy people

It's a common belief that positive thinking leads to a happier, healthier life.
As children, we're told to smile and be cheerful and put on a happy face, as adults, we're told to look on the bright side, to make lemonade and see glasses as half full. Sometimes, reality can get in the way.... your health can fail, boyfriends can cheat, friends can disappoint. It's in these moments when you just want to get real, to drop the act and be your true. scared, unhappy self.
Ask most people what they want out of life and the answer's simple: To be happy! Maybe it's this expectation, though the wanting to be happy that just keeps us
from ever getting there, maybe the more we try and will ourselves to states of bliss, the more confused we get to the point where we don't recognize ourselves, instead,
we just keep smiling...trying like hell to be the happy people we wish we were, until eventually it hits us.
It's been there all along...not in our dreams or hopes, but in the known, the comfortable, the familiar...(M.G.)