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BEING HAPPY IS A DECISION!

Some people unconsciously decide that they are not going to be happy until they get "x". A husband, a wife, a child, a job, improved health etc. WHY WAIT?? Be happy right NOW at this very moment. Without a husband or a date for the last three months. Without what you want. With the flu or an annoying neighbor or wife or husband. No matter what. Yes - we have that capacity. Hard - but possible!

If you don't have what your heart desires that is an indication that Hashem decided that it is better for you not to have it. So rejoice in the knowledge that you have EXACTLY what you need at this moment to fulfill your purpose on earth. And enjoy praying that you get what you want in the future. But NOW? Just simcha.

Rav Meir Schapiro was the one who spread the idea of daf yomi and he was Rosh Yeshiva of the famed Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin. He died prematurely at the age of 46 [his yahrtzeit was last week]. When he was so sick that he could no longer talk he motioned for someone to bring him a pen, whereupon he wrote his last words on earth.

I quote:

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