forcing urself to be happy

read a real life story in newspaper. it goes like this--- the guy to whom it all happened had to reach ahemdabad from delhi. he was going through mumbai. something like that. but his flight got cancelled and since he was desperate to reach his destination he took road route and met with an accident on highway that too at night. they were lying in pool of blood and a passing by vehicle saw them and thats how they were saved. now the writer says that he is very grateful to god and happy that he was saved. and it could have been other way round where he could have blamed the airlines for all that happened. so moral of the story according to him that its u how u perceived an event.

in his case he chose to be happy abt getting a chance to live but somebody other could have been like cursing the same event blaming it on somebodyelse.

well yes that great hes alive and kicking but perceiving yourself happy does not apply to every situation. there are times when we are left in quandry because of others. and then if it would have been so easy perceiving urself happy always then so much of development wouldnt have taken place. we would be happy and satisfied with the way things are.