Author Topic: 30 Days of Being Happy (Read 1893 times)

GilloD · « **on:** June 30, 2008, 05:20:38 PM »

So, I regularly think of all the things I'd rather be doing in my life. I think, "I want to learn to play guitar", "I want to enjoy the morning", "I want to write regularly again" and yet when push comes to shove, I back down everytime. And I've found in the past that these are not hard things to do, you just have to vault the wall and get over it.

So I'm proposing 30 Days of Happiness:

For the month of July I'm going to go to bed early-early and be up early-early and go for a run- I've always wanted to get in shape.
I'm going to devote at least 45 minutes a night to playing guitar, which is something I've wanted to do FOR YEARS.
I'm going to spend at least another 45 writing. I have a notebook full of topics I've wanted to cover and haven't

Will these things make me as happy as I think they will? They're precisely the kind of life changes that therapists advocate- Life changes with actual utility instead of just the "Wanting/Getting" cycle. I'll post periodic updates here. The hardest thing is going to the run. I hate mornings and while I'm not out of shape (I can run a solid three miles with no problem), I'm hardly in shape. I used to love the feeling when I biked a couple of miles to work, I'm hoping it comes back. We'll see. Yell at me if I start to falter!

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #1 on:** June 30, 2008, 05:24:46 PM »

Good luck with that. I started my 30 daysofbeingonlotsofadvilcausemybackismessedup

TVC15 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 30, 2008, 05:31:12 PM »

I haven't been happy since I let go of my painkiller addiction.

Reb · « **Reply #3 on:** June 30, 2008, 05:31:40 PM »

I do the running in the evening, it helps with the going to bed early part.

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Not really, since I should be sleeping now. But I AM tired.

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Human Snorenado · « **Reply #4 on:** June 30, 2008, 05:36:19 PM »

I've lost a bunch of weight just from walking on the beach with the dogs and not eating shitty food since I moved here almost a year ago, but I recently started actively working out every day for 1/2 an hour or 45 minutes to get rid of the last of the fattiness. (go away, muffin top!) I'm in a much better mood for doing so, I've found. In fact, some days I almost catch myself thinking "hey, it wouldn't be so bad to actually interact with society again!" but then I chuckle and realize that's just crazy talk.

TVC15 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 30, 2008, 05:39:12 PM »

Back then, in my salad days, I saw beauty everywhere, and I wanted to tell the world all about. Flowers and shit, the shapes of breakfast cereal pieces, wistfully placed bottles of hand soap, and even the ants crawling in the salad. It was such a beautiful world. It's so much less blissful now, and the saddest thing is that I am now smart enough to know that human beings can only feel physical euphoria via elicit drug use. Everything would be so much better if I were dead. If I died before I knew what I know now. I wish my mom wasn't irish catholic so she just would have gotten a coat hanger jammed into my soft spot before I was born. Even though it was legal to get abortions when she was pregnant with me, I wish she'd just get it done the old fashioned way out of her sheer hatred for me, and for how much I hate myself and being alive.

Reb · « **Reply #6 on:** June 30, 2008, 05:48:55 PM »

How old are you TVC?

TVC15 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 30, 2008, 06:20:34 PM »

I am 27 years old, old enough to know that life is by its very nature a terrible thing and any and all happiness is either illusory, delusive, fallacious, or all of the above.

demi · « **Reply #8 on:** June 30, 2008, 06:21:13 PM »

I could use a vacation. Anyone want to shack me up for 30 days?

TVC15 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 30, 2008, 06:28:30 PM »

Quote from: demi on June 30, 2008, 06:21:13 PM

I could use a vacation. Anyone want to shack me up for 30 days?

Sounds good to me. It will be nice to have you right in my place as I am masturbating while thinking about you.

demi · « **Reply #10 on:** June 30, 2008, 06:28:48 PM »

Suddenly I have become unhappy

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2008, 06:42:39 PM »

Quote from: Rebiak on June 30, 2008, 05:48:55 PM

How old are you TVC?

I think he pre-dates this universe.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #12 on:** June 30, 2008, 06:54:33 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on June 30, 2008, 05:39:12 PM

Back then, in my salad days, I saw beauty everywhere, and I wanted to tell the world all about. Flowers and shit, the shapes of breakfast cereal pieces, wistfully placed bottles of hand soap, and even the ants crawling in the salad. It was such a beautiful world. It's so much less blissful now, and the saddest thing is that I am now smart enough to know that human beings can only feel physical euphoria via elicit drug use. Everything would be so much better if I were dead. If I died before I knew what I know now. I wish my mom wasn't irish catholic so she just would have gotten a coat hanger jammed into my soft spot before I was born. Even though it was legal to get abortions when she was pregnant with me, I wish she'd just get it done the old fashioned way out of her sheer hatred for me, and for how much I hate myself and being alive.

Aww, you just need a hug.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #13 on:** June 30, 2008, 07:05:43 PM »

Maybe I should do this too.

jobber · « **Reply #14 on:** June 30, 2008, 07:17:15 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on June 30, 2008, 06:20:34 PM

I am 27 years old, old enough to know that life is by its very nature a terrible thing and any and all happiness is either illusory, delusive, fallacious, or all of the above.

realist statement typed on this site ever.

TVC15 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 30, 2008, 07:35:14 PM »

Jesus, it's so hot outside. Today gets worse and worse. My nose has stopped running and producing good, but the glories of post-nasal dripping has left me with a sore throat that will probably lead to a painful infection. There will be no smooching for me in the near future. Not that there was likely to be any anyway.

My ennui of this existence grows by the moment. I crave the hopefully sub-72 degree embrace of sweet, sweet death, yet I am too much of a coward to pull the trigger myself by consuming all of the boxes and bottles and jugs of chemicals under the sink in my bathroom. I think I am going to drive around to all the fast food restaurants and convenience stores after 11PM tonight, in the hope that I find one that is being robbed so I can make the would-be robbers murder me while I feebly attempt to intervene. Then my death will seem altruistic, and I will be a hero, just for one day. This is ironic because I am not altruistic at all, and my seemingly selfless action is actually serving selfish means. Plus I will be dead which will be awesome. YOU'LL ALL MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE! Even you, demi. Nobody will ever again masturbate while thinking about you after I die while trying to defend the sovereignty of Taco Bell.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #16 on:** June 30, 2008, 07:53:18 PM »

I'll smooch with you.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #17 on:** June 30, 2008, 08:04:40 PM »

Fuck it, I'm in.

With just a few months left until I move away from college into "the real world," I better savor these last few moments.

demi · « **Reply #18 on:** June 30, 2008, 08:34:28 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on June 30, 2008, 07:35:14 PM

Plus I will be dead which will be awesome. YOU'LL ALL MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE! Even you, demi. Nobody will ever again masturbate while thinking about you after I die while trying to defend the sovereignty of Taco Bell.

Suddenly I am happy again

Only 29 more days to go

TVC15 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2008, 08:40:46 PM »

As a lay dying, I will tell whatever fleshbags within radius that I did it all for you, demi. They will say your name on the news, and it will be in a gay love context. This could all very well happen tonight, demi. And there won't even be a last masturbation session because it is too goddamned hot.

TVC15 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 30, 2008, 08:53:06 PM »

This 30 days of being happy bunkum is drivel! Balderdash! Nonsense! I propose the 30 days of drinking and listening to Leonard Cohen. GilloD's good intentions are of course undermined by the face that he cannot accurately predict the results of his dumb and time-consuming regimen. Better the devil you know, and you know what you're going to get if you do nothing but remain constantly drunk while listening to Leonard Cohen.

muckhole · « **Reply #21 on:** June 30, 2008, 09:36:00 PM »

I think the only way I could listen to Leonard Cohen is by being drunk.

TVC15 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 30, 2008, 09:38:20 PM »

Here, GilloD, kick off your 30 Days of Drinking and Listening to Leonard Cohen with this:

[youtube=425,350]wh9AC0jCGjY[/youtube]

GilloD · « **Reply #23 on:** June 30, 2008, 09:43:04 PM »

Okay! I'm going to bed! I;m getting up at 5:30 to run. Ugh. We'll see, yo.

TVC15 · « **Reply #24 on:** June 30, 2008, 09:46:39 PM »

Quote from: GilloD on June 30, 2008, 09:43:04 PM

Okay! I'm going to bed! I;m getting up at 5:30 to run. Ugh. We'll see, yo.

smh, smh. You're going to end up even more miserable than me. At least there are no delusions here. You are missing out by skipping out on 30 Days of Drinking and Listening to Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen is basically like Bob Dylan with talent.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #25 on:** June 30, 2008, 10:00:06 PM »

This month I'm going to eat canned tuna three times a day.

Reb · « **Reply #26 on:** July 18, 2008, 10:54:54 AM »

Sooooo... How's this coming along?

Bocsius · « **Reply #27 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:13:43 AM »

I joined a gym the last weekend of June. Worked out three times per week since then.

I'm... happy?

patrickula · « **Reply #28 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:28:39 AM »

I've decided to start alternating push-ups and sit-ups every day (push-ups yesterday, sit-ups today). Once my upper body strength has moved to a level beyond "bedridden," I may start going to the gym at my office building.

GilloD · « **Reply #29 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:30:44 AM »

Quote from: Rebiak on July 18, 2008, 10:54:54 AM

Sooooo... How's this coming along?

Disaster-thon. I basically taunted the gods by taking fate into my hands. We'll try this again in September, maybe. My luck has bottomed out.

Reb · « **Reply #30 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:34:10 AM »

Quote from: patrickula on July 18, 2008, 11:28:39 AM

I've decided to start alternating push-ups and sit-ups every day (push-ups yesterday, sit-ups today). Once my upper body strength has moved to a level beyond "bedridden," I may start going to the gym at my office building.

You'll quit within 2 weeks.

Reb · « **Reply #31 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:34:59 AM »

I love this thread, I get a live update on how people fail to realise their goals and dreams.

patrickula · « **Reply #32 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:37:25 AM »

Quote from: Rebiak on July 18, 2008, 11:34:10 AM

Quote from: patrickula on July 18, 2008, 11:28:39 AM
I've decided to start alternating push-ups and sit-ups every day (push-ups yesterday, sit-ups today). Once my upper body strength has moved to a level beyond "bedridden," I may start going to the gym at my office building.
You'll quit within 2 weeks.

Now that you've said this I better not

I'm already up to four days I think, though one day I forgot to do it $:-\$
Tonight is sit-up night and I am not forgetting!

Reb · « **Reply #33 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:39:33 AM »

When you keep it up, I will say it's because of my motivation.
If you quit, which you will, I'll be right.

I always win.

jobber · « **Reply #34 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:45:07 AM »

Quote from: Rebiak on July 18, 2008, 11:39:33 AM

When you keep it up, I will say it's because of my motivation.
If you quit, which you will, I'll be right.

I always win.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/155379828fc301d2/

Reb · « **Reply #35 on:** July 18, 2008, 11:49:21 AM »

I can't hear what is says.

Reb · « **Reply #36 on:** July 22, 2008, 04:30:06 PM »

Quote from: patrickula on July 18, 2008, 11:37:25 AM

Quote from: Rebiak on July 18, 2008, 11:34:10 AM
Quote from: patrickula on July 18, 2008, 11:28:39 AM
I've decided to start alternating push-ups and sit-ups every day (push-ups yesterday, sit-ups today). Once my upper body strength has moved to a level beyond "bedridden," I may start going to the gym at my office building.
You'll quit within 2 weeks.
Now that you've said this I better not
I'm already up to four days I think, though one day I forgot to do it $:-\$
Tonight is sit-up night and I am not forgetting!

Am I right yet?

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Author Topic: 30 Days of Being Happy (Read 1893 times)