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Are you happy?  Do people who know you say "you're always smiling" what's up with that?  Or, "how do you stay so happy?".    I learned when I was around 22 that happiness is not something we're born with, but, something that we cultivate in our lives.  I read this book "Happiness is a Choice" by Frank M.D. Minirth and Paul Meier (if you've never read it, I highly suggest checking it out.     I picked up a copy of this book because after I was hit by the drunk driver and my mom's passing away, I felt myself go into a deep funk, a depression of sorts.  I hid it from my family and friends, but, I didn't feel the same way before my mom died or before the accident.  My best friend was now gone and I had some serious injuries to my spine that the doctors said would be with me for the rest of my life unless I had a surgery which they didn't feel I should do at the time or guarantee me that it would last.  Either way, I was sad, despondent, felt broken and was broke financially, I felt separated from the rest o