perk yourself up!

aiyohh. why so much stress and sadness?

i'm damn stressed also. stupid lah. Jacky Wu seems to be related to some cheat money incident. NO! please be innocent! i want to continue watching your variety shows!!! please please please >.<

ugh, blogger just wiped out my post. so, i shall retype everything.

when you're feeling down, you'd be tempted to cling on to everything that is negative and sad.

now here's some generic info that the world has been sharing. to offset one negative thought, you need 10 thoughts. and we have 47,000 negative thoughts in any single day. now, there's obviously not enough positive thoughts to share.

so, how?

i believe that in each individual there is a positive-thought-generator. only that, some have been using the generator all their lives and some simply have rusty ones because they don't know how to use it. but there is no such thing as a defect generator. you simply need starting up and seasoning, and you'll be up and running like your working counterparts.

now, a quick analogy. my uncle has been feeling giddy for months and has been going in and out of hospitals, but hasn't actually found out why. we conclude that it is his lack of exercise that's causing it, but he doesn't believe it. he exercised for a day...and decided that exercise isn't the solution. now we know olympic participants train for years. and now he's concluding it based on one day of exercise?

finally, one day, he freaked us all out by saying his arms feel numb. ok, that's really freaky. mom panicked. i told him to go walk around. he walked one round, came back and said he still feels numb. i sent him off to walk and not to come back until he felt better. and when he came back after some 5mins, he said his arms are back to normal. now he finally believes our word that exercise seems to be one of the workable solutions.

so does it make sense to beat yourself up for one day of trying to generate positive thoughts and failing it? it completely doesn't. it's like learning abc today and expecting to be able to spell rendezvous tomorrow. (k, that was a completely weird example)

depending on how diligent you've been at using that generator, you will take from weeks, to months, to even years. but know this--you are either going up or down, so the sooner you go up, the quicker you start your generator and the less time you need to start it up.

and for shortcut lovers, ahah, hedonistic approaches won't solve the root of your problem. whoever said life was easy? well, it can, once your generator starts working.

now have fun experimenting with your life!