"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." Martha Washington

The buck stops here. My happiness is up to me, not you or anyone else. With that said, how hard is it to NOT blame someone else for our problems, etc.? And there are some people that it's just easier to say it's all their fault because of how they treated me, etc. Sure things aren't always fair and sometimes the right road is not the smoothest road, but you will get much farther if you let go of the hurts and disasters in our life so they don't hold us back.

I have found if I can become content (as in accepting where I am at) then I am able to move forward. The more I struggle with my circumstances the worse things become. Remember the saying, "Just let  it go."? Sounds simple, it's just not always easy. We have to let the past go and live in today so we can go forward. We have to accept where we are to move forward. Contentment is not giving up, it's just plain acceptance. 

Listening to my grandsons bickering over who's turn it is on the Wii game and how "You had more turns than me!" and off one would go crying that someone else made them unhappy, it's all their fault, etc. Hopefully as an adult, I have matured to the point that it's easier to give someone else a little more than I have so that someday I may actually get more in return. 

“You’re at the zoo, you have a popsicle, how can you be unhappy?”
Dewey, Malcolm in the Middle.
Appreciate the small things :) -Dan O'