Lisa and I were talking about this snippet of personal philosophy below that was forwarded to me. It is so sad, this woman's determined quest for happiness -- you can feel her clenched fists and jaw, her single-mindedness that nothing bad should happen or enter her thoughts during the month of August. I said to Lisa that the woman should just shoot up some heroin and be done with it if she was that desperate for nirvana in August. Lisa said she'd give me £10 if I put a note to that effect in the conference where the post originally appeared. Well, I'm too wimpy for that but I will put it up here.
"I intend for August to be a month of Abundance for me. I will create incredible abundance and Happyness starting today. I intend to stay Happy every day for the next 29 days. I will wake up Happy. I will be Happy throughout my day. I will go to bed Happy. And I am going to avoid every possible source of non-Happy that I can. So for 29 days I will likely have to do without reading the newspaper or watching the news shows. No scary movies. No watching the McCain-Obama drama. No fretting over my weight or the weather or my tomato plants that got eaten by caterpillars.
And if you send me any scary or unhappy emails, no offense, but I'll be deleting them! For 29 days I will surround myself with Happy books, Happy people, Happy activities, Happy movies. And I intend to attract extraordinary Happyness and abundance into my life over the next month (and beyond)."
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
A month of Happy-ness
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It makes me unhappy just reading this kind of stuff. And why is happy always capitalized, and what exactly is Happyness; is that the same thing as happiness?
This idiot also capitalizes "abundance." Reckless and Incorrect Uses of Capital Letters is One of my Pet Peeves! I think we should all inundate this grimly determined Pollyanna with the most horrible, depressing things we can find, just to wreck her silly August ambition.
Maybe happiness is so elusive to the poor writer that she has to make it a proper noun and misspell it, thus making it harder to attain.
For faithful Blog Followers who simply cannot stomach this Happyness claptrap, just re-read it and substitute the word "drunk" for the word "happy." That's probably exactly what she's doing anyway! (By the way, how do we just somehow KNOW it's a woman? What man would come up with such emotional hormonal dreck? Sometimes I despair of my own fellow females...)
I do feel sorry for her because what if one of her relatives dies in August? If her employer wants to tell her about cutbacks at the office? If her tire goes flat?
Will she say DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING BAD then she misses the funeral, the saying goodbye, the will-reading where she inherits stuff, etc.
It's a lot of pressure to put on the month of August too because they aren't called the Dog Days of August for nothing.
Maybe better to try for a Day of Happy-ness on the 25th of December? More likely to achieve that.
Another thing I take issue with is the embargo on "unhappy e-mails." I think she is overlooking a great source of HappYness---learning of others' misery! A sad e-mail from a friend can often make one purr with contentment and leap with joy at one's OWN lack of life tragedy---at least until same bad luck strikes oneself...ah, the restorative and energizing power of Schadenfreude!:):)
I just had lunch with a friend who is going through a horrible time with 2 of her 3 children, and while I am sad for her, I'm SO HAPPY IT AIN'T ME (yet.) Could be any day, of course; "the arrow of Death flies unseen at noonday," as de Ole Testament say. And my husband once penned a joking blues lyric:
"I was walkin' down the hall
A-doin' nothin' at all,
When suddenly an anvil it did fall!
It knocked me on the head,
And then I sho was dead,
Never know when that Death will come to call."
I love 'the arrow of Death flies unseen at noonday' (but they must have meant to add, BUT NOT IN AUGUST).
Also those lyrics by your husband are fab. Did he write music to it? We need to put it up on YouTube.
http://news.uk.msn.com/august-the-cruellest-month.aspx
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