Poll: Stop being so DAMN Miserable!!

[SadakoMoose]

Look buddy, while I agree that some people are mopey for the sake of it, a lot of people do have real issues with their lives. You don't know what a lot of people are going through so before you tell them to 'shut up and be happy!' try to empathize a little and consider that possibly they are going through something unpleasant. For example, I recently had a falling out with an ex-girlfriend with whom I was trying to stay friends,and for a while, I was bloody miserable. I tried putting on a strong face, what with the holidays and all that going on, but even then people knew something was up with me. It has gotten easier but it still hurts, at some times more than others. So before you say "Quitcherbitchin!" try to consider what they may be going through.
That being said though, I can be a bit of a pessimist at the best of times, but typically I turn it into a dark and somewhat biting sense of humor rather than just mindless complaining. This doesn't appeal to everybody of course, as people seem to either get my sense of humor and love me for it or not get it and think I'm an asshole, but I'm not aiming to please everyone.

But I digress, Books I like:
I absolutely adore Yahtzee's book Mogworld. The humor is great and the characters were really well fleshed out (which is a little ironic, since quite a few of them were zombies).

I wasn't talking to or remarking on everyone.
I'd just grown really tired of all the dismal pseudo-philosophy I'd been hearing on these boards. I'm not going to go around and tell people that they're personal problems aren't valid, I just thought we needed a contrary voice to all the negativity and self-hatred I was seeing.
Something saying that it's GOOD to be human and eat food, and have sex, and do drugs, and read books. I lump those activities together sometimes...
I guess I read Steppenwolf a little too hard...
Still, this an indictment of everyone, just another way of looking at some things.

 

[Shivarage]

Happy or not happy, let's agree that things aren't, in fact, going to shit. Because they aren't. We're living in an age of enlightenment and free information, and for all you brats know, other eras were 10 times as shitty as this. Man will be fine. The planet will be fine. Humanity adapts, and is more resillient than you can imagine. At the same time, learn to accept that things are different. They might even be weird. They might be confusing, upsetting or even morally reprehensible. None of them are, however, the one thing that makes humanity "unworthy" or other such nonsense.

I would like to correct you on that "enlightenment and free information" statement... SOPA, ACTA and the new bill that is the same thing?

We keep having to defeat the same proposals over and over again, enlightenment my ass

 

[applesandoranges]

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[GameMaNiAC]

Well, even though I'm not feeling very cheery at the moment, the feeling will pass.

This thread made me feel slightly better, though. I thank ye, kind lads and lasses.

 

[butternut]

My flatmates have gone out to a nightclub to party friday night away, I stayed here because I didn't feel like going out. They accepted that and left without a fuss.

I have good friends.

I am happy. Thank you.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Read Steppenwolf!

...you don't read Steppenwolf, you listen to them.

 

[SadakoMoose]

Read Steppenwolf!

...you don't read Steppenwolf, you listen to them.

Well, yes, but I meant the book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28novel%29

 

[Versuvius]

My bile and seething rage is the only thing that keeps me warm and not drinking myself senseless and throwing myself under a train.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Huh? I'm fine. Not super happy, but I'm enjoying myself. I managed to survive the worst months of my life and come out on top. I learned how to have a healthy relationship with weed and alcohol, and how to cope with a mega-bitchy ex girlfriend who tried to and sort of succeeded in destroying my social for some of the most bipolar reasons or hating me in the world.

Let me get into a healthy relationship with a girl and a job, then I'll get back to you.

 

[Yureina]

At this exact moment? No, i'm not happy at all. I'm actually a bit depressed.

But on average? I usually do pretty good.

 

[The_Lost_King]

Dude! I thought you meant cokacola now i feel dirty

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Dear god yes finally. Disclaimer here though.

Its ok to be sad sometimes. Its ok to be mopey and down. Its human. But to cling to mopeyness is stupid, and its even fucking rage inducing when tweenage brats do it JUST to seem "cool" and "aloof". Seriously its not, shut the fuck up about how "humanity has gone to shit, its all over, EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE" unless you have a real tangable horrible issue right in front of you. Doing it just to seem cool is just... i dont even know. Go down to the pet shop and play with puppies. Or kittens. Whatever the hell you want.

Theres an unquoted user in this thread who already, in a hardcore baddittude fashion, commented on how faith in humanity was a joke in a VERY funny sarcastic way that reminded me of when i was 14 and thought i knew everything and talked snidely to everyone was generally a douche. I wasnt a fun or nice person back then.

Anyway the idea of life is to LIVE and not to focus on how shit it all is, i mean fucking jesus people what the hell is wrong with THIS?! THIS AWESOME piece of art weve been flung into that is the universe and earth and everything you can see. The universe is a MONOLITHIC abyssal expanse that holds the most wonderfull and awe inspiring shit youll ever see and this TINY speck of it is so fucking interesting its like picking up a bowl and having a BILLION interesting stories and jokes and paintings and people ingraved onto the electron of ONE molecule of water in the bowl. How fucking awesome is that?!

How can you not look around, even when times are bad and go "HOLY FUCKING SHIT just LOOK at all of this... just look at it... how amazing is it to be alive?" Listen to carl sagan. Find someone you love and hug them. Its fine to be sad sometimes but just REVEL in every experience that makes you human, sadness and happyness alike. It isnt healthy to dwell in misery unneccessarily. Just watch this.

 

[latiasracer]

Sorry buddy, but people actually take pride in being cynical. However stupid that thought may be.

You can be both now?

I'm pretty cynical about shit myself, but im not depressed.

I Just like enjoying things. And looking forward to a nice future of sunny days and traveling nice places with the love of my life.

Of course, what will really happen is i will just play Minecraft. For ever.

But im happy with either!

 

[latiasracer]

Sorry buddy, but people actually take pride in being cynical. However stupid that thought may be.

You can be both?

I'm pretty cynical about shit myself, but im not depressed.

I Just like enjoying things. And looking forward to a nice future of sunny days and traveling nice places with the love of my life.

Of course, what will really happen is i will just play Minecraft. For ever.

But im happy with either!

 

[CODE-D]

"Have Sex with a girl!"
you reminded me i dont have one....now im miserable again.

 

[him over there]

I'm absolutely miserable right now but not in "The world is heading toward ruin let's theorize bullshit existentialism that will have no impact on us" way. Just you know, personal self worth problems that I won't elaborate on since the internet isn't my dumping ground. I agree with you though and thanks for trying to cheer us up. I think people need to take a step back, appreciate what they have and just go "Holy shit everything is amazing!" Like this:

 

[Nexxis]

I suffer from clinical depression, so there are times when I'm sad and can't help it. However, I don't like being sad, so I try to find some things that can help take the edge off. Watching lighthearted stuff like Spodgebob or My Little Pony helps me. Sometimes playing video games helps.

I will say that sometimes sadness can be infectious. Inhabit a room with a negative person and you can sometimes feel the joy being sucked out of the room. Maybe avoiding situations like that can lighten the mood. Also, being a bright room can help. At least, that's what a doctor told me. Depression can also be brought on by having low energy levels so try moving a bit and that can help too.

 

[El Poncho]

I'm reading Snuff by Terry Pratchett right now and it's awesome and funny.

Snuff is a great book, one of my favourites

I'm usually quite a happy person but lately I feel I have a reason to be really happy for once. I have an unconditional offer for one of my first choice Universities and my relationship is going perfectly.

In school I'm enjoy the majority of it, helping out at the library is actually quite relaxing and I am having fun developing my religious and moral arguments with someone in my RMPS class who is a Mormon(1 of 2 in my school in Scotland) since he brings up decent arguments I can think about, that makes me happy knowing i'm improving in some way or another.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Life, past, present, future, is all plenty to be sad about. But life is pointless if you can't overcome this.

It is humanities greatest default setting to be negative. But to think positive is a skill that is absolutely needed to live life to the fullest.

I know there is no god, I know there is no higher purpose to me being here, I know there is no such thing as fate or destiny, I know that everything that has a beginning has an end, I know that I am just a sack of some very clever cells that have arranged themselves in such way that they form the most advanced life form on the planet, I am aware that all my thoughts, memories, emotions and impulses are nothing but chemical and electrical reactions happening in my brain, I know that at any moment shit can go wrong, I know that I am infinitely luckier than a person that was born 100 years ago, I know that I'm lucky to not be born in a war torn hell hole, I know i'm lucky to even have access to the amazing peer-to-peer communication platform that is the internet, I know that there will definitely be an incredibly devastating war in my life time that will effect me no end.

And with all of these things being a sure thing in my head, I am happy. I am very, very happy. because against all the odds, I survived, and I am free, and able to choose my own destiny. I am happy that I am intelligent, and have a reasonable chance of finding a mate, in which to pass on my seed, I am happy that I can post this comment, and have my views read by potentially millions of people, I am happy that I have a broad sense of humor, I am happy i'm not a total failure drug addict, etc.

Get over it, life ain't that bad. Unless you're a failure drug addict of course, in that case, hope over to Switzerland. They have an awesome range of exotic clinics.