Top Ten List: How to Be Positive
Want to be happy but don’t know how, exactly? It’s a tricky one, as we all know, and the sadder you are the harder it is to go the other way. Don’t ask me, I have no idea, all I have are a few suggestions about how to go in the right direction. Take these with a pinch of salt, and maybe it’ll help you think of a few of your own:
1) Sing along to really bad, funny music. This never fails to work. Just don’t do it on a busy train or bus. Behind locked doors is best—you can really let loose!
2) Surprise someone by jumping out of the dark and scaring them out of their skin: I recently did this to my brother; it entailed hiding in the dark for twenty minutes, but when it finally happened it worked fantastically! Warning: choose your victim very carefully; anyone with a weak disposition or who has had a heart attack is better left alone.
3) Watch a Peter Andre video.
4) Watch a Peter Andre interview.
5) Read an old diary; old diary’s—either yours or a friends—are crammed full of ingenious anecdotes that will have you laughing in seconds.
6) Learn a language: learning a language can be fun as well as a harrowing experience; soon, when the grammar is knocked on the head, you’ll find every foreign word hilarious.
7) Watch You’ve Been Framed.
Go and check out the newest fashionable T shirts in the shops: more often than not they are covered in ridiculous slogans like “permanent vet jobs"that not only make no sense, but that you’d never have on your person in a million years!
9) People watching: this works especially well in freezing weather; it’s always only a matter of time until someone falls over hilariously!
10) Ask a very unfit friend to try and do one press up. Their terrible failure may depress them, but it will definitely put a smile on your face.