The Happiness Circle

Try this: find something to laugh about. It has to be something silly and not something unkind, then tell the story about what made you laugh to everyone you know.

I only have one story recently that makes me laugh, but it might actually be unkind? I don’t know. My mean kids skipped their gym class last week. That meant that we actually had fun in class for once, since they weren’t there to be snippy and make fun of everyone. Later that day I ran across them in the hallway and they had to run to get away from me. So I kind of won twice. They had to do sports to get away from me and I didn’t have to deal with them in class. (Is that unkind? Because I really had the nicest day not having to see them.)

I’ve been working on my general depression as well as I can. I saw a therapist this week (the one from school) who specializes in short therapies. Some of her advice was sort of along the lines of “fake it ’til you make it”. It was just to do things that usually make me happy and let time pass. Sometimes, if things are going to work out on their own, this might just do the trick. (My opinion is that for real, serious depression, medication is probably life saving for many people and is often the only good option, but I haven’t been that far gone this particular time.)

So I’m writing in my blog (which makes me happy) and giving Foro lots of hugs (which also makes me happy).