Lazy8 wrote: 

No, I meant that we create our own reality in as far as we have control over our circumstances due to our actions or inactions and the attitude which we are going to project! In this context, we most certainly do create our own reality.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
No. No, we can't. But we can make the best of the one we find ourselves in.

It's not a denial of the real, it's acceptance of the real and a resolve to enjoy it for all it's worth.

 cookinlover wrote:  That is so true! We each create our own reality!

 jadewahoo wrote: 
I hope you weren't Uncle Lomax, Because if you were... 

I tried being someone else for a while. It sucked. Now I am content to simply be myself.

 

Through the garden-walks straying,
He plucks the flowers that fairest seem.
 - Goethe

If you are focused only on your temporary feelings - always asking yourself whether this thing or that person is making you feel happy in each moment - then you'll spend your life at the mercy of outer events that may not always be under your control.   On the other hand, if you choose to be happy, your experience of happiness is back in your court.   Say out loud, "I choose to be happy, right here and right now."   Say it, and mean it.

- Sharon Janis