do we decide what makes us happy? is it a choice?

[BjarkeT]

I have seen some people who think that being with other people is something they aren't a big fan of while for other people they seem to be very happy around other people it seems like what they like and don't like comes from some choice does that mean that we decide what make us happy? That its ultimately a decision? 

When you where happy in the past wasn't that the outcome of some decision you made?

Edited December 31, 2018 by BjarkeT

[aurum]

@BjarkeT

Yes it’s a choice. But that’s often not a useful way of looking at it, because most people have lots of resistance around happiness.

[SOUL]

Is it a choice to make about choosing what makes one happy?

Why choose to be the chooser of the choosing of what makes us happy?

Just be happy with being happy regardless of whatever circumstances one finds themselves in. Then when we are choosing it's not choosing what makes one happy, we are choosing things that have no influence over whether we are happy because we are it just to be it.

We have already made the choice to be happy with just being it, not about choosing the circumstances which makes us happy apart from the circumstance of just being it.

Of course, 'happy' is really just a mood which isn't really a reflection of genuine joy and the liberation that inspires it but that is another discussion altogether.

You only asked about 'happy'....so happy.