Reasons To Be Cheerful

[monster]

Finding great books at thrift stores. Makes me happy.

(But don't you hate it when you can't get home in time, and it's really hot in the car, and the covers curl up?)

[OP ED]

not sure anyone has ever described me as cheerful.

when i'm feeling down, however, radiohead makes it better.

Radiohead --- Optimistic

Flies are buzzing around my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
Big fish eat the little ones
Big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem give me some

You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on an animal farm

If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

I'd really like to help you man
I'd really like to help you man.....
Nervous messed up marionette
Floating around on a prison ship

If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
Dinosaurs Roaming the earth!
Dinosaurs Roaming the earth!
Dinosaurs Roaming the earth!

[Jeff]

when i'm feeling down, however, radiohead makes it better.

Buster Keaton for me. Screw Chaplin's maudlin sentimentality. (The ending of City Lights excepted. Genius will out.)

And Buster Keaton with a radiohead soundtrack isn't bad, either.

[Project Willow]

The 3 Stooges singing "Hello, hello, hellooooooo" as my new ringtone.

[Seamus OBlimey]

Bull gores man to death in Spain

[Nordic]

Whoa .... I'm trying real hard to think of a reason to be cheerful.

This is the worst year I've had in a very very long time.

Financially I'm terrified.

Professionally I'm pretty screwed right now.

But other than that? Things are just rosy!

[agitprop]

Whoa .... I'm trying real hard to think of a reason to be cheerful.

This is the worst year I've had in a very very long time.

Financially I'm terrified.

Professionally I'm pretty screwed right now.

But other than that? Things are just rosy!

Want to talk about it? What is it that you do for work? And...very sorry to hear about your money worries. I think a lot of people are scared and also confused about what is happening and where it will all lead.

I'm cheerful about my Siamese fighting fish, who will break records for longevity soon, my new book about lighthouse keepers, and how they regularly went insane before automation. Cheerful that life is anything but boring. But that is a kind of cheerful mixed with foreboding, so don't quite know what to call it.

[compared2what?]

Whoa .... I'm trying real hard to think of a reason to be cheerful.

This is the worst year I've had in a very very long time.

Financially I'm terrified.

Professionally I'm pretty screwed right now.

But other than that? Things are just rosy!

Want to talk about it? What is it that you do for work? And...very sorry to hear about your money worries. I think a lot of people are scared and also confused about what is happening and where it will all lead.

I'm cheerful about my Siamese fighting fish, who will break records for longevity soon, my new book about lighthouse keepers, and how they regularly went insane before automation. Cheerful that life is anything but boring. But that is a kind of cheerful mixed with foreboding, so don't quite know what to call it.

Thread rules prohibit questions regarding reasons not to be cheerful. However, please feel free to start a tell-me-your-troubles thread. It's a lovely concept, in its way. Although perhaps a little on the risky side wrt the potential for attracting the vulnerable and needy, to whom it might not offer enough comfort to justify the self-exposure. But conceptually lovely, nevertheless.

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Nordic!

I'm sorry to hear you're having teh stress. I wouldn't exactly propose myself as a role model for anyone, but fwiw: In retrospect, I can't think of an incident of professional adversity in the whole of my life that didn't turn out to be either a transition or a prelude to a much happier period than the one I'd mistakenly believed myself to be perfectly happily sailing through, prior to whatever circumstances caused me i to confront the prospect of running aground on the shoals of adversity.

Which isn't to minimize your anxiety at all. For one thing, it was fucking agony at the time, every time, no matter how well it turned out eventually. Plus these are, obviously, teh times of teh major financial stressing. However, in my experience, anyway, the uncertain future hasn't ever turned out to be as dire as the uncertainty made me feel that it was. It was just...Well. Temporarily uncertain. Eventually, I always ended up sighting whatever destination I hadn't initally realized I was travelling toward, and my life went back to being its ordinary bag-of-tricks self.

It's both my hope and wish that you'll end up discovering that you're on such a journey now. And after all, since you might be, it can't hurt occasionally to contemplate the possibility that you are. Because it's kind of a cheering thought. And not necessarily an unrealistic one.

[agitprop]

Nordic!

I'm sorry to hear you're having teh stress. I wouldn't exactly propose myself as a role model for anyone, but fwiw: In retrospect, I can't think of an incident of professional adversity in the whole of my life that didn't turn out to be either a transition or a prelude to a much happier period than the one I'd mistakenly believed myself to be perfectly happily sailing through, prior to whatever circumstances caused me i to confront the prospect of running aground on the shoals of adversity.

Which isn't to minimize your anxiety at all. For one thing, it was fucking agony at the time, every time, no matter how well it turned out eventually. Plus these are, obviously, teh times of teh major financial stressing. However, in my experience, anyway, the uncertain future hasn't ever turned out to be as dire as the uncertainty made me feel that it was. It was just...Well. Temporarily uncertain. Eventually, I always ended up sighting whatever destination I hadn't initally realized I was travelling toward, and my life went back to being its ordinary bag-of-tricks self.

It's both my hope and wish that you'll end up discovering that you're on such a journey now. And after all, since you might be, it can't hurt occasionally to contemplate the possibility that you are. Because it's kind of a cheering thought. And not necessarily an unrealistic one.

Cheerful to be able to provide a brief synopsis of your post--

"I Turned Lemons into Lemonaid, and so can you!"

[compared2what?]

More like "So might you." I've never really had lemons in that regard. I've always had my pick of lemonade.

But my point was that career anxieties are often, in retrospect, just growing pains.

Now please be CHEERFUL. Or provide reasons to be.

[compared2what?]

For example, I expect to wear an ensemble like this one some day:



And that anyone ever did is a reason to be cheerful, imo.

[OP ED]

(does it come in black?)

if so, i agree.

[Seamus OBlimey]

Bulls hit.

[nathan28]

The leaves, flowers, seeds and root of kudzu are edible. Yes, really. As god is my witness...

[Nordic]

Whoa .... I'm trying real hard to think of a reason to be cheerful.

This is the worst year I've had in a very very long time.

Financially I'm terrified.

Professionally I'm pretty screwed right now.

But other than that? Things are just rosy!

Want to talk about it? What is it that you do for work? And...very sorry to hear about your money worries. I think a lot of people are scared and also confused about what is happening and where it will all lead.

I'm cheerful about my Siamese fighting fish, who will break records for longevity soon, my new book about lighthouse keepers, and how they regularly went insane before automation. Cheerful that life is anything but boring. But that is a kind of cheerful mixed with foreboding, so don't quite know what to call it.

Thread rules prohibit questions regarding reasons not to be cheerful. However, please feel free to start a tell-me-your-troubles thread. It's a lovely concept, in its way. Although perhaps a little on the risky side wrt the potential for attracting the vulnerable and needy, to whom it might not offer enough comfort to justify the self-exposure. But conceptually lovely, nevertheless.

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Nordic!

I'm sorry to hear you're having teh stress. I wouldn't exactly propose myself as a role model for anyone, but fwiw: In retrospect, I can't think of an incident of professional adversity in the whole of my life that didn't turn out to be either a transition or a prelude to a much happier period than the one I'd mistakenly believed myself to be perfectly happily sailing through, prior to whatever circumstances caused me i to confront the prospect of running aground on the shoals of adversity.

Which isn't to minimize your anxiety at all. For one thing, it was fucking agony at the time, every time, no matter how well it turned out eventually. Plus these are, obviously, teh times of teh major financial stressing. However, in my experience, anyway, the uncertain future hasn't ever turned out to be as dire as the uncertainty made me feel that it was. It was just...Well. Temporarily uncertain. Eventually, I always ended up sighting whatever destination I hadn't initally realized I was travelling toward, and my life went back to being its ordinary bag-of-tricks self.

It's both my hope and wish that you'll end up discovering that you're on such a journey now. And after all, since you might be, it can't hurt occasionally to contemplate the possibility that you are. Because it's kind of a cheering thought. And not necessarily an unrealistic one.

Thanks to those of you who responded.

I forgot I posted in here, I used to never come to the lounge and now do only occasionally.

I won't go into my issues, due to the "thread rules". Hey, you know what? THREAD RULES! It also rocks.

What makes me happy? My son. A hundred times a day.

A good blowjob every now and then from the wife can work wonders, too.

I mean, since you asked.