Learning to simply enjoy yourself despite your situation and circumstances

The one thing I can control is my attitude and how I react to things.  This to most people seems so little.  In a world that advocates more control this is seen to some as a joke.  Though one thing I have learned in this life is the simple and the least meaningful are actually the most important and the most meaningful.  Smiling at someone though simple and almost insignificant can do so much more than paying that person to care.  Simply put you get more out of the things that required little effort and more care. 

 How we care is a form of attitude adjustment.  No one single human being is perfect not even the ones we look up to or picture ourselves looking like if we were perfect.  Not even your parents got much right raising you and if they did a good job, it's cause they were able to get you to understand that they cared.  So when you just want to yell out in anger or have a good rage stop and think.  What if I were happy instead.  Just be willing to think it and know that it will change the way you react to the things around you.  A few weeks a ago I was told at a mechanics shop that my pleasant cheerfulness was appreciated.  Why was this important?  The man who said this had just finished dealing with a man that he described as so depressing to be around that he didn't understand how his wife could deal with him and felt sorry that the woman had to suffer such a man. That the man's mere presence brought sadness.  I'm not saying become a ray of sunshine but please don't be this man even on an off day.