How to be happy: 'Sour or sweet, it's just a flavor'

The language of lemon flowers is 'sincere love' and 'prudence'.
In contrast to the fruit
that makes you pucker with its sourness,
they hold a somewhat calm meaning.

If you take a bite,
it is so sour it makes you wince.
However, regarding that sourness,
some people find it 'refreshing and delicious',
while others find it 'impossible to eat'.
Others still feel that because of that sourness,
a dish is balanced and the sweetness stands out.
Some even see the lemon as something
that balances the flavor.

Even with the same lemon, how it is felt varies from person to person.

The same thing might be said
about life.

Sour or sweet, it's just a flavor

Sweet events.
Bitter experiences.
Moments that make you wince.

These are all 'flavors'.

Sour or sweet, it's just a flavor.

The events themselves
do not have 'good' or 'bad' labels
attached to them from the start.

Who decides what is 'delicious'?

For example, a failed event.

Whether you feel it was 'the worst'
or feel that you 'learned something',
the flavor of that event changes completely.

A word said by someone else,
whether you take it as 'being hurt'
or take it as 'receiving an insight',
the impression left behind will differ.

What decides what is 'delicious'
is not the event, but your own interpretation.

An important premise

Of course,
this is not to say that you should be positive in any situation.
This is a discussion based on the premise that your health, relationships, financial situation, and social environment

are not in a state of collapse.
The daily events that occur within that context

are actually like 'unseasoned ingredients'.
Sweetness, bitterness, and sourness alike.

What decides what is delicious
depends on how you cook it and who is eating it.

Choosing how to savor

A lemon can stay sour, or
if you combine it with sugar, it becomes sweet and sour.

In the same way,
events can stay as they are, or
by changing your perspective slightly,
they change into a different flavor.

What is important is
not 'what the flavor was',
but 'how you savor it'.

Choices that lead to happiness

You cannot control everything
that happens in life.

However,
you can choose
how to receive it.

The daily events that occur within that context
are actually like 'unseasoned ingredients'.

Sweetness, bitterness, and sourness,
they are just the flavors of your life.

Living while savoring each one
in your own way.

Just by doing that,
daily life becomes a little softer,
and before you know it,
a day might come when you can think, 'The bitterness of that time wasn't so bad either'.
How will you savor

today's events?
Being able to choose that

is, I believe, the power that leads to happiness.

A movie that influenced the writing of this article

Forrest Gump

Events that happen in life
are just 'flavors' as they are.
Whether happy or painful,
Forrest does not assign special meaning to them,
but moves forward while accepting them as they come.

That is why his life,
while full of ups and downs, is somehow warm.
The value of an event
is not decided from the start,
but changes depending on how you savor it.
It is a work that
gently reminds us of that feeling.

You can watch it on Amazon Prime now.

I have also compiled other flowers of 'how to be happy'
at the link below.
Please take as much as you need 🍀

Thank you for reading until the end.
I hope to see you in another article.
🍀 May you be happy 🍀