Kesha
*Spend a couple of hours bouncing a baby on your lap. This one never fails me.
*Play some great music really loud. In your house, in your car, on your ipod, only upbeat stuff you love.
*Wear some tight shoes. Seriously, nothing will make you forget your other troubles so quickly.
*A good drunk, is called a ‘good’ drunk for a reason. Tie one on, and just let your freak flag fly.
*Hang out with somebody who makes you laugh. A good laugh and a good nap are almost always the best solution.
*This one’s much harder but the effect is truly awesome, if you can pull it off. Just take a day off from your struggles. If, as you say, there is much you have no control over, then why worry? I know it’s not that easy. But if you got up tomorrow and just decided, 'Today these troubles will have to get along with out me, it’s my day off. I refuse, that’s right, refuse to put the yoke of these worries on today. They will still be there for me tomorrow, the world will not end, if I take a day off" Don’t be surprised if you have to remind yourself through out the day, that’s okay, just get back on track and don’t beat yourself up.
*This is the very hardest one of all, but I have to say, it will work. I’ve done it myself, as part of a challenge I was given. Spend one whole day, just saying ‘thank you’ - for everything. I know, it sounds silly, but it will change your perspective if you give it a try. Thank you, for short changing me, thank you, for cutting me off, thank you, for being late, thank you, for being such a jerk. Your job, for one whole day, is to say thank you, (not necessarily aloud, you understand!), whatever comes your way. (I confess to not understanding how or why this works so effectively, but in my experience it certainly did!)
I wish you nothing but the best of luck and hope that you get some suggestions that help you out!
Usually simple stuff. Sunlight, flowers, catfights (that 'ud be fights between my cats), really good puns, and my awesomely funny friends.
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Being alive as a thinking living being experiencing anything at all (though I often forget this.)
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Hanging out with my two closest best friends (I realized at some point, this is the one that literally brings smile to me.)
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Seeing humans be genuinely good to each other and help along those who happens to be not as fortunate in this reality.
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Nature in all its beauty, from the tiniest of the tiniest to the grandeur of them all… I get fascinated.
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When I get anything accomplished, however momentary it may be.
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Yes, me too, when I hear awesome music.
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Funny goofy threads and posts here on SDMB.
(I’m sure I’m forgetting something major.)
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This book:
http://www.amazon.com/14-000-Things-Happy-About/dp/0894803700
which inspired me to make my own list which gives me a lift every time I need one.
This is a group called World Order, headed by Genki Sudo (a former MMA fighter and kickboxer, and a practicing Buddhist). All of their videos (official site) are similar, and brilliant, especially the new “2012” one (which seems to have been filmed at Teotihuacan in Mexico).
They definitely, always bring a smile to my face. Thanks to swampspruce for posting the video!
Listening to the oldies, favorite songs from my youth. They don’t depress me like they do with some people who are reminded how fast the years fly! I can hear “The Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats and think “good times, good times I had”. Maybe ten years from now I’ll hear a current song and think the same thing!
Because you can never have enough cute. My own house mushcat also helps.
I think the point of the tao is to stop fighting the heaviness. My pointless existence is defined by a very special needs son who has altered the course of the universe for me and I have had to accept things that previously would have seemed handed over by satan himself on a platter. Now, since reading the tao over and over, I am able to say in the now much more, to feel the anger and fear and claustrophobia and not need to run.
But I’m also lucky because nature is a drug for me, just being around anything outdoors that is green or alive is very healing, I feel so happy when I feel my atoms greeting the atoms in the trees and flowers. No, seriously. Its joyous. Reminds me of a Whitman poem, every atom belonging to me as sure belongs to you (butchered paraphrase)…I live that now.
I am sure to get outside everyday in nature. Also, I have always been a nihilist, not in a really negative sense but just more in an atheist sense, so I never had high hopes for some magical carpet ride. I am just here, I am just being with other things that are being, everything seems to just want to continue being. I try and go with that flow everyday, and days it doesnt work so well I cry and feel angry, and thats OK. It’s all just very OK.
This is my first post in these forums. I hope I spaced my paragraphs enough.
orgasms~
I’m clinically depressed but like a sense of humor so I watch a lot of stand-up on TV. I love laughing at our frailities and just relating to wry observances. I appreciate a good set like a fine wine. (I guess. I don’t drink wine. Vodka is my drink of choice.
And beer.)
I measured and…you measure up.
It’s brilliant!
Reading the sentence gems I have collected over the years from various college students. They never fail to make me laugh until it hurts.
Read post #158 here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=516732&page=4
lol - this is horribly embarrassing, but there is an up-and-coming VERY HANDSOME British boy-band* I follow and I happened to stumble on the insane world of fan fiction about them and have been DELIGHTED by the horrible, shocking, delicious raunchiness of what these supposedly teenage girls are cooking up about them.
*They’re all like 20
My face is breaking from the TEE HEE HEE ing.
Thanks for sharing this, olives. I know exactly what you mean by “Sea slugs are a thing, and it’s going to be okay”, even if it isn’t sea slugs, specifically, that bring me to the same conclusion about the world.
Start collecting mine! Some are good.
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what brings a smile: happiness caused by my pointless existence.
Would you believe that some people on my campus started telling me that I shouldn’t collect or share them because of privacy issues? This, despite the fact that they are anonymous and there is really no way to track them back to the placement tests whence they came since the students don’t get the essays back and said essays are eventually shredded.
So…Richard Lederer can make a living off of collecting and publishing gems, and so can the authors of Non Campus Mentis and F in Exams, and the person posting the blog http://shitmystudentswrite.tumblr.com/. They all get away with it and there are no lawsuits I am aware of.
But I can’t do the same thing.
Don’t you just hate it when people try to kill your buzz?
Anyway, keep collecting those gems! You can always read them when you need a lift.
I’d go further and made you not to collect them on the basis of copyrights 