Detaching Happiness

I am onto this new idea of detaching happiness from other people and I guess you could include other things.  I refuse to rely on other people to make myself happy.  It is pretty funny because once I started to do this I find myself just smiling for no apparent reason.  I am not smiling because I met a new guy, won money or someone did something for me.  I am smiling because I am me and I am the only one that can ever make myself truly happy.  Not to say that other people can't make me happy.  I am simply and not so simply saying that it HAS to come from me first and always.  Once, you start detaching yourself from others you will find that you can allow yourself to be happy.  You lose the excuses like "Only if my wife did this for me then I would be happy" or "Only if my boss was nice to me then I would be happy".  People are flawed and everyone is a little self absorbed.  So, to base your happiness on them is a tad foolish.  Happiness is a tiny light shining in everyone.  It is your choice to turn your own light on. Because if you wait for someone else to... then you may stay dimmed for a very long time.