Just do it.

You know, sometimes life just sucks. There's nothing more to it. It just sucks and makes you miserable. But when you look back you realize that all that sucky-ness didn't really suck as much as you thought it did.
When I look back at all the times in my life that have made me miserable I see big events that have made me into who I am today. All the hurt that I have felt has actually made it possible to be happy.
Why is it that when you're a little kid anything can make you happy? I believe it's because you can't see the bad things. The bad is kept away from you by the adults around you. They protect you. But As you get older they back off, they let a little in at a time, and maybe they don't mean to, maybe it just gets too much for them so they have no choice to show you a little bad, to let you see what is really happening. Soon enough you're forced to see all the bad. And after that it gets hard to see the good. For so long good is all you knew...that's all there was, but now what? now it's just gone? If as a child it's easy to block out the bad why can it not be done now? Why is it that we can't just see the good?
Well, I see the good. It isn't like I just wake up and nothing bad happens. Bad things occur every day. But for me, I've just realized that seeing the good is a lot easier than wallowing in bad things and sadness. Just look around you. See what is good. This world is filled with things to amaze you. It's filled with love and joy and fun. It's full of things we don't need to make us happy. And It's filled with things we do need that, lucky for us, make us happy as well.
Maybe you can't just forget the bad, but it doesn't need to be the highlight of everything. Instead of talking about that girl over there-compliment her. Instead of waking up in the morning thinking about how bad the day will be-embrace it. Instead of feeling down about yourself think of the good in you. Think of the good in everyone you meet.
If you think something about yourself, you start to believe it after a while. Good or bad. So think ahead. If it makes you happy- do it. If it makes the smallest difference in your day- do it. It's surprisingly easy to make yourself happy. Just do it.