Turnin' - Young Rising Sons

This song doesn't have an "everything's good right now" vibe. It's more like, "it WILL be good." A lot of days we don't feel like things are going to go our way, and we need to keep in mind that nothing's permanent...we make our own luck, we just need to hold out until it starts to show up in our lives.

Turning a Negative into a Positive

There are times when I've had to deal with personal adversity before, and more often than not I've curled up and let it pass by. I'm a really non-conflictive person, and don't enjoy results that come from aggression or carelessness for other people. I think that by letting it happen though, I've let feelings of shame and inadequacy take hold for longer than they should have in different times. After the year that's passed for me though, I want to handle these problems differently...and I'm writing about this because a light bulb came on right before this.

I had a close friend publicly like an article on social media that demeaned a sports fan base that I'm a part of. It was something so trivial, but I'm frustrated with what this friend's done in the past too, now-this isn't the first time he's done something like this.

ANYWAY... I decided to respond the way most people that want to behave do. I didn't (or at least haven't yet) retort in a similar fashion to the friend. Here's what I did do:

• Eat...proven to help moods, hadn't done it yet during the day.
• Think of what I need to do today/how to distract myself.
• in this case, I chose what homework I have going into college Dead Week. 
• Get out of house, the heck away from friend.
• Put any energy stemming from anger or annoyance into doing the homework.

Doing all of these things, I need to pat myself on the shoulder for not creating any drama, not making my mood fester over, and right now just being creative. I'm weary of this guy's tricks, but in honesty I'd been waiting for something special to happen so I can regain the energy to get through these last couple weeks. This wasn't the type of event I imagined, but I'll take what I can get and make it work.

To sum up-you mad? Go displace it on something that needs it. Not something random like a pillow or other drivers, make it task oriented and work it out.