Crap Soup
Sometimes life just seems to be going absolutely wrong. Like nothing is working out. Like nothing will ever work out. Like the world and everyone in it are out to get you. Like the universe itself is handing you a big hot bowl of crap soup and telling you to eat all of it. I realize that might be taken in some interesting ways but for clarification purposes when I say crap I mean things that are unfair, wrong, mean, frustrating and other things of that nature. It seems like there is no end in sight and that there may never be happiness or joy again in your life. Let me tell you something. You're right. If you let it consume your life and you live with the attitude of there never being good in the world again you will most likely find yourself only seeing the world as something negative.
If you sit around moping and in a slum blaming the world and everything in it, you will feel miserable. It's as simple as that. No matter how hard the people around you may try to make you happy if you choose to be miserable that's what you will be. It's the classic glass half full or half empty scenario.
Let me give another option. Choose to be happy. It is that easy I promise. If you wake up every morning and say to your self "You know what today I choose to be happy and nothing is going to get in the way of that" then it will happen. So they might put pickles on your burger at lunch when you specifically asked for no pickles. So your boss might yell at you for no apparent reason resulting in you being late for dinner with the family that night. So you might wake up with a cold on Saturday morning so you have to cancel your date with the cute guy in your Psychology class. So what. If you choose to be happy and to look for the good in each and everyday I promise you will get through it. It will go by so much faster if you are searching for the positive instead of the negatives.
So this is what I want you to do. Pick up that spoon and dig right into that bowl of crap soup with the attitude that you will make it through this. You will finish it. Everything will get better. You will be happy again. And pretty soon without even realizing it, you will find yourself staring at the bottom of an empty bowl.
If you sit around moping and in a slum blaming the world and everything in it, you will feel miserable. It's as simple as that. No matter how hard the people around you may try to make you happy if you choose to be miserable that's what you will be. It's the classic glass half full or half empty scenario.
Let me give another option. Choose to be happy. It is that easy I promise. If you wake up every morning and say to your self "You know what today I choose to be happy and nothing is going to get in the way of that" then it will happen. So they might put pickles on your burger at lunch when you specifically asked for no pickles. So your boss might yell at you for no apparent reason resulting in you being late for dinner with the family that night. So you might wake up with a cold on Saturday morning so you have to cancel your date with the cute guy in your Psychology class. So what. If you choose to be happy and to look for the good in each and everyday I promise you will get through it. It will go by so much faster if you are searching for the positive instead of the negatives.
So this is what I want you to do. Pick up that spoon and dig right into that bowl of crap soup with the attitude that you will make it through this. You will finish it. Everything will get better. You will be happy again. And pretty soon without even realizing it, you will find yourself staring at the bottom of an empty bowl.
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