Adversity and Happiness

So everyone talks about being positive and staying happy.They say being happy is a choice.You decide what would make you the happiest and act on that decision.But what do you do when none of the choices you have can make you happy. Sometimes you feel boxed in, suffocated and tied down by your life conditions,responsibilities and commitments.What do you do when you don't have the freedom to be yourself and do what you like.When every choice is the wrong choice..... There is a whole range of emotions between happiness and outright misery,just like there are shades of grey between black and white.So when I feel like none of the choices I have can give me Happiness,I choose the least painful one.And once I have done that,the feeling of helplessness goes away and I feel a little better.Less directionless.At least I was able to do something constructive about it.I feel a little better.As I act upon my "least painful" choice,I feel better ....till eventually happiness looks like a possibility..... How soon you reach happiness depends upon how honest were you while picking your "least painful choice".Did you choose with your Ego or with your Heart? Bless you, HappinessNLove