deep.thought.reading
-THE BLUE DAY BOOK-
Everybody has blue days. These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhusted. Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach. You can't rise to the occasion. Just getting started seems .i.m.p.o.s.s.i.b.l.e. On blue days you can become paranoid that everyone is out to get you. (This is not always a bad thing.) You feel frustrated and anxious which can induce a nail-bitting frenzy that can escalate into a triple-chocalate-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye! On blue days you feel like you're floating in an ocean of sadness. You're about to burst into tears at any moment and you don't even know why. Ultimately, you feel like you're wandering through life without a purpose. You're not sure how much longer you can hang on, and you feel like shouting, "Will someone please shoot me?!" It doesn't take much to bring on a blue day. You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best, find some new wrinkles, put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple right on your nose. You could forget your date's name, or have an embarrassing photograph published. You might get dumped, divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname, or just have a plain old bad-hair day. Maybe work is a pain in the butt. You're under major pressure to fill someone else's shoes, your boss is picking on you, and everyone in the office is driving you crazy. You might have a splitting headache, or a slipped disk, bad breath, a tootache, chronic gas, dry lips, or a nasty ingrown toe nail. Whatever the reason, you're convinced that someone up there doesn't like you. Oh what to do, what to dooo? Well, if your like most people, you'll hide behind a flimsy belief that everything will sort itself out. Then you'll spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder, waiting for everything to go wrong all over again. All the while becoming crusty and cynical or a pathetic sniveling victim. Until you get so depressed that you lie down and bed the earth to swallow you up or, even worse, become addicted to Billy Joel songs. This is crazy, because you're only young once and you're never old twice. Who knows what fantastic things are in store just around the corner? After all, the world is full of amazing discoveries, things you can't even imagine now. There are delicious, happy sniffs and scumptious snacks to share. Hey, you might end up fabulously rich or even become a huge superstar (one day.) Sounds good, doesn't it? But wait, there's more! There are handstands and games to play and yoga and karaoke and wild, crazy, bohemain dancing. But best of all, there's romance. Which means long dreamy stares, whispering sweet nothings, cuddles, smooches, more smooches, and even more smooches, a frisky love bite or two, and then, well, anything goes. So how can you find that blissful "just slidding into a hot bubble bath" kind of feeling? It's easy. First, stop slinking away from all those nagging issues. It's time to face the music. Now, just relax. Take some deep breaths (in through the nose and out through the mouth). Try to meditate if you can. Or go for a walk to clear your head. Accept the fact that you'll have to let go of some emotional baggage. Try seeing things from a different perspective. Maybe you're actually the one at fault. If that's the case, be big enough to say you're sorry (it's never to late to do this.) If someone else is doign the wrong thing, stand up tall and say, "That's not right and I won't stand for it!" It's okay to be forceful. (It's rarely okay to blow raspberries.) Be proud of who you are, but don't lose the ability to laugh at yourself. (This is alot easier when you associate with positive people.) Live everyday as if it were your last, because one day it will be. Don't be afraid to bite off more than you can chew. Take BIG risks. Never hang back. Get out there and go for it. After all, isn't that what -L-I-F-E- is all about?
..... I think so too.