Finding happiness

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes I find myself daydreaming – wishing I was out west (maybe in Colorado or Utah) or on a beach somewhere. But the thing I’ve come to realize is that it doesn’t matter where you are geographically. My dad used to say that “happiness is a state of mind, not a state on the map.” He was right. Happiness has to come from within. There are sad or angry people living in a ski town or near beaches too. Only we can choose how we feel.