Perspective. No matter where we go, what we do, or how we feel, we all have the conscious ability to choose our perspective, our outlook on the events that transpire- on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly basis. I feel as if Happiness has become a sort of fairy tale in recent times. Recently I've been reading the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and he makes a great point- in the past thousand years, we have come a LONG way in terms of technological and social advancement. Yet despite all of these "new" and amazing things, it doesn't seem as if much more of us are any happier. In my opinion, I feel like people are only getting sadder. There seems to be this increasingly pessimistic view of the world permeating the planet- just turn on the news, and there you are greeted by the most recent tragedy. Drugs are becoming an ever increasing problem in our society, just as substance abuse with things like alcohol, cigarettes, nicotine, etc. So that's where the r...