Do you want a surefire method that will ensure you are sad and miserable the entirety of your existence?
It is easy. Just ask yourself on a regular basis, "Why am I so sad?"
It starts immediately with a confession that you indeed are sad, and there is nothing wrong with admitting you are sad at all. However, that isn't the intent instead you are trying to figure out WHY you are sad, and this has always left me much worse off then when I began. Long story short: There is an infinite amount of things that we can be sad about on a regular basis.
It seems the same goes with disappointment, frustration, and hopelessness.
Yet, I find it rather absurd to practice the opposite.
Why would you want to find out WHY you are happy?
I find that I can easily just BE happy, but I struggle, repress, and analyze the urge to BE sad.
Besides what shock or mystery is coupled with joy? Doesn't true art bleed out of the conflicted, the dreary, and the frustrated? Take myself for instance, I wrote the most during a time of my life when I felt the saddest... actually not true.
I wrote a ton more before, the only difference it was for me. I had a LJ at one point, yes, but I have 3 journals full of writing that precede any writing I have accomplished online. Yet, now I have neglected my journal and opted to display my "public appropriate" postings for all to see.
Ohhh aren't I smart? OOOOhhh what a good point. Or OOOOOHHHHH I just love reading your blog, but I have no opinion on anything you have written.
I just want attention.
PS: I still smoke... wondering if I really am addicted or if I should stop caring all together.
PPS: I tried to drink just wine and it made me feel like shit. So I am drinking my regulars.
PPPS: If you are familiar with my previous entry about women in the workplace I understand better now. Women at my work walk fast because they have a ton of work to do, and a family to get home to, unlike me, and they have deadlines, unlike me.
