I once read a quotation that has always stuck by me, "Happiness is not something ready made, it comes from your own actions." This is something I believe in, even today, since happiness is contagious and there is no harm in spreading joy around to other people. After all, what benefits come out of being sad. Yes, one may grieve over a death or be sad about getting a B in an exam, but at the end of the day, life is about moving on, thinking about the future and keeping a positive outlook on the world around us. Otherwise, one might just live under a rock in sadness, which leaves us blinded from what the world has to give us.
Additionally, here is my contribution for 'Children, Masks and Divorce':-
I think that the "splitting" of parents can help a child become stronger as a person and learn to be more independant and mature, especially if the divorce takes place while the child is still in primary school. On the other hand, it also can make a child quite confused and possibly not as strong headed as others since they are in sense, masked, living 2 different lives in 2 different homes. Both parents may have different preferences of living their lives, along with how things are arranged in the home and what behaviour is acceptable in the house. The child would have to learn to adapt to different environments very quickly, so to not get in a muddle. I also agree that children from divorced parents would not want to show more sympathy for one parent over another, because this would upset their other parent, and we can't forget that children love both parents equally. Siding with one parent in an argument in one household would not be an issue; the issue arises when parents live in separate houses, since siding with parents is not public to the other parent, and this is where rumours and tales could start in the family. A child with divorce parents definitely has a lot to cope and deal with and it is all the more harder if the divorce is early on in childhood.
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