Your happiness, your responsibility

Life has no structured outline, whereby everything happens at the right time, moving the story forward in the main character’s favour. The start of a person’s story just might be the best part, because at least, for most people, they are born into the arms of those who love them.

There are many ugly truths of reality amid the beautiful lies of our fantasies, but, it’s up to us what we make of those truths. We are the writers of our own stories, and our lives are only one messy, unfinished draft and there are no deleted scenes. And, thankfully, every moment holds importance, and every scene has value.

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In the movies and on TV, it is precisely when everything is perfect and everybody is happy that you know something disastrous is about to happen. Seeing everything go well is what makes you suspicious. We are learning to be afraid of good fortune, as if joy is something to be wary of. An assured, impending catastrophe is a sound reason to make sure we never get too happy.  And, sure enough, that’s when the car skids off the road, the child is kidnapped or killed.

Well, life is not like TV. Wonderful things can keep happening to you, one after the other. So, make the good ones count and bad ones better, as much as you truly, truly can. There is no logical reason why there should be a limit to how happy you can be.

Aspire to be happy, you are responsible for your happiness. It’s something you give to yourself, not something another can take responsibility for.

Abejide Grace Atinuke,

Ibadan