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Reasons to be cheerful?

Posted May 23, 2000

I think it is almost a year since I set this thing up so thought I should at least post something just to prove I ain't dead and that my fingers work.

Reasons to be cheerful?

Suggestions on this topic are welcome as long as they are not along the lines of 'well it could be worse you could be...' or 'just be grateful you don't have...'.

Comments along these lines are comparable to the well known term of 'applying additional combustible products to an illuminating exothermic reaction'

Telling a manic depressive that they should 'cheer up as it could be worse' is only likely to make the said depressive spend all their time wondering what is about to happen to them that could possibly be worse than what has already happened. They will proceed to spend hours analysing all the variables they are currently dealing with in their life, select the worst outcome for each and then extrapolate to form a view of how bad their life is doomed to become.

Some may argue that providing me with reasons to be 'a little more chirpy' requires knowledge of my current circumstances, but were is the fun in that? A one person solution is no solution at all in the upright scale of things.

There we go then life and phalanges successfully demonstrated although the jury may be out on sanity.

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