A great life.

What is a great life? Many people would say a great life is when you grow up to be healthy, prosperous, and have children. Others would simply say it's to be "happy." I wonder, what is true happiness in life? Nobody can assume other peoples happiness. Only you are capable of determining your own happiness. So often people kill themselves, and the reaction from others is "oh, but they were so happy!" Again, only we can make those determinations for ourselves. Another thing, people that are "happy" and have a great life, how can anyone know that they don't have past actions that made them "happy" that they strongly regret? I don't believe I personally can have what I would call a great life when I'm full of regrets. I believe everyone has a great life. Why? Because we as humans are so caught up in our own bullshit, and our skewed beliefs that everything bad that happens to us is the end, that we forget the most important things. That every consequence in life, good or bad, is a lesson. If we choose to react to these lessons in a negative way, we may end up with little of what those with a "great life" stereotypically have. And then we decide life isn't great. But we've overlooked that we are blessed with lessons. If we did not have these lessons in our lives, our opportunity for growth would be limited. I am grateful for my opportunities. And I will chose to make the best of my life, although it is already great. As is everyone else's .Some may just not realize it yet.