If you are used to being unhappy, even in the best of situations you will still grumble and be unhappy. Nothing can make you happy in the world.
When you are happy, what is happening? When you are smiling, what is happening? There is so much relaxation in the muscles of your face, in the head, and everywhere. There is freedom, joy, and relaxation. But if you train your muscles and nervous system to being unhappy, then that same thing continues. You remain unhappy irrespective of the situation around you.
Santosha, contentment, is a practice. Being unconditionally happy is a practice.
“Come what may today I am going to smile. Everything is going to vanish and disappear, so what? Let me at least be happy." Smile this very moment and enjoy my very breath if not anything else.
If someone else is upset or something else is wrong, never mind, at least you can breathe happily. Nobody is going to hold your nose. You are free there.
You sell your happiness for peanuts. I tell you, it is not worth it. The entire world is not worth your smile. Even if you are made the king or emperor of the world, it is not worth giving away your smile.
