Trying to be a Better Person

I have decided I'm sick of the silently negatively me. I put on a happy mask, but can very easily join and encourage bitching and whingeing and I no longer want to be that person. Last year I read His Holiness the Dalia Lamha IV book on happiness and it is really a simply way of thinking and comes back to the basic catholic saying "do unto others what you want done unto yourself". I will just BE happy, simple as that. I will do things that make me happy and be nice to others and if they don't return it or appreciate is so what, I am happy and doing the right thing so who cares what follows. I will not let other peoples opinions put me down I will simply smile and walk away. And its working it really is. I am feeling more in control of my destiny and enjoying the simple things so much more. Who cares if my best friends gf hates my guts and glares at me, she has done nothing specific wrong so I will say hello and smile....one day she may just smile back who knows.