{"id":1049,"date":"2015-02-08T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T09:09:21","slug":"decide-to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Decide to be happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Decide to be happy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve decided to remind myself how lucky, blessed, whatever you call it I am to have this life and live this life where I do. Deciding to be happy doesn\u2019t make our President a man of integrity, it doesn\u2019t change our shrinking economy, it doesn\u2019t keep the lights on nor does it impact the poverty around me. What it does do, for me anyway, is not weigh me down with the heaviness of it all. When I decide to be happy I celebrate all I have. I celebrate the beauty around me. I celebrate the many opportunities I have to be amongst nature without paying a hefty price for it. I celebrate the mountain. The sea. 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