{"id":20946,"date":"2022-11-30T19:56:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=20946"},"modified":"2022-12-05T08:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:16:18","slug":"why-do-i-always-find-it-hard-to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/11\/30\/why-do-i-always-find-it-hard-to-be-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do I always find it hard to be happy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW113022-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW113022-2.jpg\" alt=\"Why do I always find it hard to be happy? I tried to only focus on the happy things and ignore the rest, but it doesn't help.\" class=\"wp-image-20940\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Why do I always find it hard to be happy? I tried to only focus on the happy things and ignore the rest, but it doesn&#8217;t help.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people have more trouble with that than others, so don&#8217;t be down on yourself about it. One important thing is to not compare how you feel to how you think other people feel&#8230;almost everyone has more going on under the surface than they show. There&#8217;s also a difference between choosing how much attention to give unhappy things and completely ignoring them. Start by acknowledging reality, and don&#8217;t be shy about feeling how you feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have more trouble with that than others, so don&#8217;t be down on yourself about it. One important thing is to not compare how you feel to how you think other people feel&#8230;almost everyone has more going on under the surface than they show. There&#8217;s also a difference between choosing how much attention to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/11\/30\/why-do-i-always-find-it-hard-to-be-happy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why do I always find it hard to be happy?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20964,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946\/revisions\/20964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}