My list for a happier life
I am big on pushing my assertions to be universal.. They aren’t. (note: this is the only time I will admit this.. don’t even try it a 2nd time)
I am mostly inspired by this blog regarding a list for happiness
- Take responsibility to what you do, and don’t be ashamed.. You aren’t the first one to do it, and definitely not the last.. if you keep doing it, and can’t stop, try
- NEVER (yeah I said never) take responsibility in a relationship for something you feel you didn’t do.
- Laugh.. often. Sometimes without reason (it keeps people off guard)
- If you notice “the whole world does…” do the exact opposite. Trends are for sheep, and sheep are the dumbest animals on the face of the earth..
- Buy a lumberjack shirt. No real reason for it, but I love seeing people in the plaid shirts and just don’t care what you think. Do that, just make sure its clean
- If you have kids, get on your hands/knees and play with them 1 hour every day. Consequently, if you don’t want to do this.. don’t have kids.
- Stop talking to shrinks and taking crazy pills.. It is probably only really necessary for about 300 people.. and they are all in congress. You should have friends.. Talk to them. If you have a spouse, that is who you should talk to. If it is about someone, talk to the person it is about. If your just hearing voices, or wake up naked in subway tunnels in a strange city..then take the pills.
- Marriage is a trap! but it is also the most rewarding times of your life. high school sucked, if you had “the time of your life” in high school.. You suck. Marriage is waking up realizing your breath is funk-ified and having someone kiss you and not throw up. The trap is when YOU have to do the kissing..
- Let your past go. (this helps with #7). If you did something crappy, or great.. that was then. Move on. “what have you done for me lately” should be on your mp3 player (not an ipod, or again.. you suck {remember #4})
- If you have kids, watch them. Almost like a stalker. So some crazy person doesn’t try to take them, and so they don’t do something crazy (they are kids, remember?)
- Acknowledge you are going to die.. Then get over it. Everyone will do it, and it can’t be part of rule #4. Don’t go nuts and try bungee jumping just because everyone will, mind you.. ’cause then you might answer that question “life after death?” sooner than you’d like..
- Go to a church. If you don’t have a religion pick one and go there. Church people tend to be some of the nicest people I have met. If you go to the church and they suck, go to a new one..
- Try things you wouldn’t normally want to because of the cost. Cuban Cigar if you can get on.. If you like chocolate go nuts and get some of the GOOD stuff. The stuff that makes Hersheys look like poodle poop. Or.. a good 30yr single malt scotch.
- (note see the linked blog’s notice about expensive underwear) While I do not have any I see the validity of the point.
- Tell your most humiliating story as often as you can, you’ll notice it just becomes funny.. and not so humiliating
- Be honest with yourself.. and others when possible (some people would die if they knew how you really felt, maybe best you left them alone so if the weight of your deception bears on you.. you won’t destroy someone)
- If someone in your life causes you problems.. Problems you can almost not take anymore. Leave them behind. Its hard because sometimes those people mean the most to us, but you can NEVER help someone by being their scapegoat or punching bag. And if you could, it wouldn’t be worth it for YOU.
- When you hear bad news, laugh. As a reflex. (I don’t know why but it really takes the edge off)
- laugh.. a lot
- Find a game you like and get horribly addicted to it (I don’t do this.. not at all)
- Tell everyone you Love, that you love them. Tell them often and make sure they understand you mean it.
I’m sure I’ll edit so I’ll add more as I go.. leave me yours!