Happiness is based on decisions. People who drastically make bad decisions cannot expect to find lasting happiness. It will not happen because their unwise decisions will undo the right ones previously made.
Happiness is the result of the decisions we make in our daily lives. Once in a while, the decision is momentous (like getting married) but most often, happiness is the culmination of many lesser decisions.
Living with the person you love will call for countless seemingly insignificant decisions. If these decisions create conflict, hurt, discomfort and doubt, they undermine even the most solid relationship and weaken it even if no great problem has arisen. It is the chipping away at the foundations of love that eventually weaken it and take it down.
What will matter in determining our happiness will be the ability to decide wisely. The more erratic is your decision-making, the more shaky will be the foundations of your happiness. And if you are habitually wanting in your decisions, then your happy moments will become few and far between. Deeply depressed persons keep making decisions that drive them farther away from the happiness they so desperately seek. They just have so much trouble doing what is necessary to pull them out of the darkness they live in.
If you are happy, chances are you are making the right decisions most of the time. If not, it might be wise to think back about the decisions that got you to where you are. Then start thinking about making those decisions that will get you to where you want to go.
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