Cheer up.

[Vetro]

There are often times when my mood is just low and I can't think why. I usually spend my time while in these psychologically deleterious moments pandering to my own appetite for woe and self loathing. This is usually done by listening to depressing music or watching depressing things. I was thinking though, in the middle of a session of random self-loathing, why do I bother with this?
Reality is a lovely thing, you make your own fun, life is not short. Nothing will help me happy if I don't allow it to.
Why can't today be the best day of my life?

-Smile in photographs.
-Go outside, even if you don't have to.
-don't read fashion or beauty magazines.
-dance to music.
-don't justify anything that you enjoy.
-break hearts.
-make new friends.
-you cant die from embarrassment.
-laugh at yourself.


To quote Lester Burnham
I guess I could be pretty annoyed about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

So, how was your day?

[Clunk]

So, how was your day?

Awful

[lego batman]

Great thanks, 5 custard cream doughnuts for 75p from Sainsburys cheers me up no end.

[EvilMunky]

watched Harry Brown today - I am now thankful I don't live in south London.

Great film - go see it.

[Zak33]

Awful

Did you know that to be Full Of Awe used to be good?

http://www.trivia-library.com/b/orig...ords-awful.htm

[educatedfool]

I sat and watched my lecturer derive equations for 2 hours, had a pint and a pizza at lunch, went to lecture, learned about plastic deformation for what must be the 100th time in the last 10 years, fled the lecture room during the mid lecture break (those 2 hour jobbies are rather boring), went home, slept for an hour.

B*stard driving test tomorrow so I'm a bit preoccupied trying to remember all those fiddly rules you only ever need during your test.

[Lucio]

Did you know that to be Full Of Awe used to be good?

http://www.trivia-library.com/b/orig...ords-awful.htm

Damn you Zak!! Now I'm going to have to sit, read and remember *everything* on that website!!


Seriously though, on the OP's point having a "positive attitude" isn't always possible, as a long term sufferer of clinical depression I know that only too well!

[cat123]

B*stard driving test tomorrow so I'm a bit preoccupied trying to remember all those fiddly rules you only ever need during your test.

Good Luck with the driving test I passed mines on the fourth attempt but it was the best feeling ever.

Hope you do it, just stay calm.

[0iD]

Could be a lot worse off than you are

[Disturbedguy]

Today crap, yesterday crap! Being single after 4 years is crap!

[Clunk]

Did you know that to be Full Of Awe used to be good?

http://www.trivia-library.com/b/orig...ords-awful.htm

Thanks awfully

[Lucio]

Could be a lot worse off than you are

That's the stupidest reason I've *ever* heard to be happy! Cheer up because you're suffering is obviously inconsequential in comparison? That's like saying the pain of a broken arm isn't that bad because the pain of childbirth is worse!

[MadduckUK]

That's like saying the pain of a broken arm isn't that bad because the pain of childbirth is worse!

how did they figure that one out then?

[Behemoth]

It wasn't the best day ever for me, and it wasn't the worst one either. I'm just thankful for the little things in life these days, a car that will start when I want it to, and a car that I've now fixed that damn leak I've had for months.

Now to get rid of that damp smell !

[0iD]

That's the stupidest reason I've *ever* heard to be happy! Cheer up because you're suffering is obviously inconsequential in comparison?

Works for me, because my suffering is actually inconsequential in comparison.

That's like saying the pain of a broken arm isn't that bad because the pain of childbirth is worse!

No, it's like saying feeling down about being ill, having no job, deep financial difficulties, divorce #2 in the offing and two eldest kids that don't want anything to do with me is nothing to a life of incessant deprivation, starvation & poverty.

Just the way I see it, s'all.

[matty-hodgson]

No, it's like saying feeling down about being ill, having no job, deep financial difficulties, divorce #2 in the offing and two eldest kids that don't want anything to do with me is nothing to a life of incessant deprivation, starvation & poverty.

Just the way I see it, s'all.

oh man, that sounds tough. y'alright?
it's good to hear that you have a pretty decent outlook on life though
i often use the "well at least you're not starving to death in Africa" but then they just get "well i'm still feeling down" or whatever. i just feel like shouting "GET A GRIP!" someone taking the piss out of you cos you fell in your own sick at a party isn't as bad as not having eaten anything in the last few months or maybe longer.

PMA! Positive Mental Attitude