Emotional Ramblings

I've been told happiness is a choice. That if I just think positively, be confident and not care what anyone thinks, then I'll have a good time and everything will work out. Somehow, I feel like this is not true. Sadness in a natural human emotion. Every single person has problems. Happiness is just as well a natural emotion. Everyone experiences both of these emotions. To say either is a choice seems odd to me. Maybe I'm just a pessimist who sees the worst of every situation. Perhaps, I'm just not making the right choices. But, I have gone in with a positive attitude for various events in my life, and I often still fell as though I am leaving myself out of the human experience. I am choosing to be more proactive, and finding more things to do, but yet I still feel left out of life sometimes. As though there is something I am missing. People have told me it's counterproductive to write about negative tendencies and that positivity should be the key idea to give to the reader. So I will try, I will tell you that happiness sure feels a lot better than sadness. And the more you can be happy, the more fun you will have in life. But, you don't have to be happy. Sometimes, sadness is necessary to be happy later on in life. The good times feel better if they mean something. But, if there is a moment where you are distressed, and just need to let out some emotion, then you're only being human. All the best.