Choose to Be Happy, Dammit!
Stay Motivated With These Five Easy Steps!
Beat The Blues Naturally!
Love Yourself Just The Way You Are!
Turn That Frown Upside Down!
Beat The Blues Naturally!
Love Yourself Just The Way You Are!
Turn That Frown Upside Down!
These are just a few of the countless titles choking social media sites across the globe with their pastel motivations in cute, easy-to-read fonts.
Cheery articles in generic upbeat colors with stock photos of even more generic smiling people, that tell you to change your style, change your thinking, change your body, change your perspectives, change whatever it is about you that is causing you to be an unfulfilled, miserable wreck of a human being.
Because whatever you’re doing, you’re doing it WRONG.
And being happy as a fucking butterfly in the springtime is the solution to all your problems.
Severe depression?
Cheer up! Lots of people have it worse off than you do.Incurable disease?
It’s not so bad. At least you’re alive!Existential melancholia due to the crumbling economy and political arena-of-death bloodsport chaos?
Unplug! Go outside! Remember what a beautiful world we live in!
You can choose to be fucking happy!
It’s all about perspective. This is your life and you are choosing to look beyond all the hardship and pain and focus on the beauty of simply being alive.
And then a rock comes flying at your face and punches a hole in your skull.
(Why? Because it’s funny.)
I'm a happy idiot!.
And when you’re happy there’s no room for negativity in your life.
Or rocks.
To paraphrase Pete Seeger,
(or the Bible, if you’re being picky)there is a time for everything.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;a time to put on rose-colored glasses and twirl naked in a field of poppies, and a time to curse your fucking job/s for not giving you enough hours to be included in their health care plan.
(Because you got stung by a few bees whilst twirling naked in the field of poppies and now your left ass cheek is the size of a car tire.)
But look on the bright side: the swelling will (probably) go down soon and you’re pretty sure you’re not going to go into anaphylactic shock.
Remember, you can choose to be fucking happy!
Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Hahaha! Love this, and it is so true, it IS a choice. Actually what you're rock flying at face example reminded me of was a story I just told my son. We were talking about balance, this realm tends to demand things be in balance, hence sayings like 'no good deed goes unpunished'. If you experience joy you will experience sorrow, same with pleasure and pain, etc. We talked about neutrality, but in the end who wants to live a numb life? Not me. So if you understand that having lots of great things happen means that bad things will too, and you just accept it as part of the game here, then suddenly those bad things don't really seem so bad, you know?
Anyway, I'm rambling, the actual story I told him was about this one time years ago I was really pissed about something, so I locked myself in the bathroom and snuck a cigarette and sat there thinking angry, horrible thoughts, when suddenly a gust of wind picked up the curtain and whipped me in the face-- After I got over being momentarily startled I then doubled over and laughed my ass off. After which I reconsidered the whole situation and saw it differently.
So, all of that to say I think we do always have a choice about how we feel. It's even a choice when we say or think things like 'There wasn't a choice!" LOL
That is a really funny story. Sounds like something that would happen to me.
But I kinda meant this to be sarcastic, like, screw all these happy people I'm gonna sit over here and be a grump. :)
It is true though that if you see the inevitability of bad things happening to you, they don't seem as bad.
Ha, gotcha. Actually I had just burned one before reading and then writing that somewhat incoherent ramble. I'll take a genuine grump over a fake happy person any day ;)
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I used to practice and teach laughter yoga, as a way of working through a period of depression. It's a "fake it 'til you make it" idea, with exercises in playful, joyful expression. So I do think attitude is a choice, in a way. That said, your shark image illustrates really well the ridiculousness of an obsession with happiness, although I've been guilty of exactly that. Chomp! Ooh these shark teeth are so ticklish. Heehee. ;)
Hahaha. Ticklish..
In truth I'm actually a pretty upbeat person. But it's the obsession with happiness, like you said, that just annoys the hell out of me.
Upbeat is a good way to be, my friend. That appears to be true about you. I wonder if there's always been a happiness obsession, or if that's a new concept, with the pushing of all the anti-depressant medicines? I bet the cavemen were hot heads. :)
I'd describe myself as more of a cynical jerk than a happy person. Most things in life are piteously funny to me, so I suppose I laugh more than a lot of other people, albeit in a more "shake my head at the idiocy of it all" type of way than in genuine joy.
But hey, laughing is laughing, right? It's good for one's health, or so they say.
I do believe the obsession with happiness is a modern creation that stemmed (at least in the US) from the industrial age and the invention of the "American dream."
Before that, life was simple and difficult. One's goal in life was to survive, raise a family, run a household, put food on the table. Happiness (or sadness or any other general emotion, for that matter) wasn't an overriding objective; one just existed.
Once the notion of "more, faster, stronger, better" took hold, just 'living' wasn't good enough anymore. You had to do "X" to be successful; you had to be "X" to be happy. "Happiness" became a permanent state of being, rather than a fleeting emotion. And that's when, in my opinion, everything started going to shit.
But enough about that. I'll just go and read some inspirational quotes now.
Yep, I'm thinking along those same lines. I'm seeing the "Bigger, stronger, faster" mentality here in Texas. There's a sense of pride about extremes, including over-indulgence of food and alcohol, for example. I see the over-consumption in other areas too: media, sex... Each of these is an inflation of the ego. And the obsession with happiness is included in this. It's an ego trip.
I agree.
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I'm with you on this one 100%. There's always someone worse off than you, or a billion or two worse off in most people's cases.
The hard and somewhat controversial truth of the matter is;
Many of the people who are sad a lot of the time are ingrates. Because we all have plenty to be thankful for, but so many of us choose to focus only on the bad shit we have, or the good shit we don't.
I'm starting to think that completely missing the point is this guy's schtick or something.
I agree with you.
Lol. Actually, it was you who missed the point on the other post. I was being sarcastic. If I came up with the name and logo, do you really think I couldn't see what you could see?
But you are definitely right about this one. When I'm done creating my own content, I typically relax with a joint and read some of other people's. I seem to have only missed a few short lines after rereading, but apparently, that was enough for me to miss the entire point. Lol.
When I noticed this last night I was too stoned to be arsed replying, but, I did flag my comment. Because in truth, I would likely have flagged the same comment had it been from someone else. Might as well keep it honest and hold myself to the same standards as every one else.
Interestingly though, @lenadr, I wrote this article a good while back. It would appear that we have found something we have very different opinions on. You wanted to be my nemisis... Now it would appear we have something we can debate. So you may get your wish, Moriarty. Lol.
Muahahaha! You didn't have to flag your comment though! Damn!
Yes. I did. Lol. It was well deserving.