How can I become happy?

Well as they say, ‘ happiness begins with you.’ If you are looking for others or something to make you happy it will not last! People will fail you and things don’t last. I probably will not say anything too different than others, but you got to realize what you have; before you. Got to be content with the simple things in life and apprecaite what you have around you. Articles can’t do it and certainly others can’t, so not knowing whom you are. I think you are just in a searching period at this time. You want meaning for everything and sometimes there just isn’t any meaning or explanation, it just is. Happiness sometimes eludes us because we look for it. For me happiness walking along the beach,starring across the ocean, happiness for me children;caring about nothing in the world but what makes them feel good and trying to figure things out. Happiness is knowing I can do what I want or be whom I choose. I don;t have to laugh or even smile inside, it’s a feeling of contentment, not acceptance. Life is full of up and downs, it just how we look at each situation. Our decision today make our history and our future tomorrow. I hope this made since, bye