Choose Your Own Happiness
It was Victor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor, who once noted that the one thing mankind cannot have taken away from them is the ability "to choose one's own way." Among the last of the human freedoms, he said, was the decision "to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."He added that part of what determined how he endured the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps was this daily, hourly choice of whether or not he would be robbed of his very self, his inner freedom. And perhaps one of the most critical concepts that revolutionized my mental health journey was simply this: the power to choose. Once I woke up this simple yet profound idea, it honestly changed everything for me. I don't think most of us set out to live with a victim mentality. To have our lives defined and determined by the behaviors and words of other people. To revolve around our circumstances and have them dictate our quality of living. I don't think we mean to...
