How do you stay positive?
Do you talk to your pets?
Do you recite affirmations?
Do your affirmations include considerations about how terrifying the introspective examination of your life really could be if you'd just let yourself go?
Do you say things like Thank God it really isn't as bad as I think it is ?
Then you shudder because you realize it is, in fact, far worse?
Does that make you feel better?
Have people stopped talking to you?
Are you psychologically "snowed in"?
Is there a Creepy Smoking Guy sitting out in the dark, watching you right now?
Like there is here?
Now?
5 comments:
Hey there. It happens to all of us, I think. I try to distract myself. Shut off the nattering brain. Exercise helps, as does reminding myself that it will go away in time. I've never tried affirmations, and the cat wants nothing to do with me when I'm in a funk.
Feel better.
You should try reading to kindergarten kids - that will lighten up you mood and make you feel positive. Also do a little dancing with them. But take one of Brian's picture books not one of your own :)
Connie
I stay positive by reminding myself that however much work I do, however much money I make, my wife and kids will still manage to spend it. So I'd better damned well keep at it or I'll end up broke and alone in a piss-stained retirement home muttering "it's all just shades of gray . . . shades of gray . . ."
Look, Andrew, if I may speak to you as an older-brotherish type figure: coffee, whiskey, porn, sullen emails to editors, the occasional operatic rant with death threats, Advil and Ambien.
See? Positive! Big smile!!! How about an emoticon? :-) You probably feel better already!!!!
Signs of the apocalypse:
1) I made a reference to Kurt Russell as Snake Plisskin on a comment to yesterday's blog.
2) Snooki (I don't need to say anything else there, do I?)
3) Michael Grant used an emoticon on my blog.
I suppose all I'd have to do now is get some dour old sourpuss like Mitch McConnell to say "squee!" and we'd all find our asses sucked through the nearest black hole.
If you can get Mitch McConnell to say "squee," I will never again have trouble staying positive. That will be my happy thought. Or else I'll have nightmares. One or the other, I can't decide.
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