"It's a common belief that positive thinking leads to a happier healthier life. As children we are told to smile, be cheerful, and put on a happy face. As adults we are told to look on the bright side and see glasses as half full. Sometimes reality can get in the way of our ability to act the happy part though. Our health can fail, friends can disappoint, bf/gfs can cheat. It's these moments, when you just want to get real, drop the act, and be your true scared unhappy self. Ask most people what they want out of life and the answer is simple - to be happy. Maybe it's this expectation though of wanting to be happy that just keeps us from ever getting there. Maybe the more we try to will ourselves to states of bliss, the more confused we get, to the point where we don't recognize ourselves. Instead we just keep smiling, trying to be the happy people we wish we were. Until it eventually hits us, it's been there all along. Not in our dreams or our hopes but in the known, the comfortable, the familiar."
-Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) in Grey's Anatomy (Season 6, Episode 22)
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