I know it sounds really un-empathatic to say "try to be happier". It is not easy to have a chronic disease. Everybody knows that. However, the act of just being unhappy will breed self-pity, discontentment, dissatisfcation, frustration, anger, depression, denial of pleasure and anything else except happiness. Of course anyone also have his/her own right to be unhappy.
Being happy is not easy for someone with chronic diseases or chronic pain. Thus the act of just smiling even with pain is seen as courageous to those people whom you have touched along your way. I'm constantly amazed and filled with awed that at times I might even hide a tear, when someone with such great pain or misery enter the consult room with a smile. Being unhappy takes away everything, it's like a wallowing mud of unhappiness and discontentment. I met a really unhappy patient today, just hope he can take a look and appreciate the beautiful blue sky one day.
Being happy is not easy for someone with chronic diseases or chronic pain. Thus the act of just smiling even with pain is seen as courageous to those people whom you have touched along your way. I'm constantly amazed and filled with awed that at times I might even hide a tear, when someone with such great pain or misery enter the consult room with a smile. Being unhappy takes away everything, it's like a wallowing mud of unhappiness and discontentment. I met a really unhappy patient today, just hope he can take a look and appreciate the beautiful blue sky one day.
