It's a matter of choices

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Don't be fooled. You are not responsible for the happiness of another person, be that person your parent, brother or sister, or a friend. Each of us is responsible for our own choices. We can choose to be happy about the things that happen in our lives or we can choose to be unhappy about them. We can choose to live with a bad situation or we can choose to try to change it or at least change our response to it. If people say to us enough times "You make me so angry" or "You make me so happy," we might start to believe that we have power over this person. That what we do magically changes them. But we really don't. It's their choice to be angry or happy at whatever happens around them. The same goes for us. When people do things to hurt or to upset us -- call us names, put us down, throw water on our enthusiasm or excitement for an accomplishment or an achievement -- we choose how we respond. It's healthier to stay positive, to keep focus on what you want to do and to keep moving forward.