Turn that frown upside down!

It was pointed out to me that my posts, on this blog and on my own, are generally pessimistic. I also noticed that in recent days, my contributions to this blog have been non-existant, so I have decided to write a happy blog. I thought for a while about the many cheerful ideas that could be the subject of such a post, none of which had sufficient content to be the sole topic; so I will be taking the easy way out and writing about multiple things. Don't take that as a negative; positivity says that this will be a wonderfully insightful and uplifting post. On a completely unrelated topic, I think I overuse the semi-colon, but that's not negative dammit!

I find it difficult to concentrate on a single thing at any one time, which is why as I am writing this I am watching the video of my year 12 final day. There was nothing on television and I have to watch something while I type or I get too distracted. It makes sense to me, you don't have to understand. So I am sitting here watching a DVD of all my friends, and you would expect that I would be sad that I havn't seen some of them since the final day of school, but being in this positive mood I am focusing on the fact that I never again have to talk to half of my year level who are rather awful people. Never again will I have to put up with these annoying people and I am rather happy about this. On that note, my happy thoughts are that in university, you can choose the people that you talk to; you don't HAVE to speak to anyone beacause the university campus is much larger than a high school campus. This puts a smile on my dial.

I am sitting here thinking about the extremely hot weather that we are having, melting slowly and wishing it was slightly colder. I am being optimistic and am excited that soon the rain will come and I can go outside without wishing I was naked (well, more than I usually do). As much as I dislike the hot weather, I will be positive about that also because it gives me an excuse to walk around the house in my underwear; I hate wearing pants.

If you have read my last post on my own blog, you will have read about the need to flirt. This usually comes out when I am around an ex, but I am pleased to report that while getting a tad wasted and dancing with my most recent ex, I successfully avoided mentioning anything awkward, which is usually a problem for me.

I have failed so far at my attempt to make this post less about my life and more about life in general, but that's ok; learn from mistakes and I will finish off the post as I had intended to start it. That was sickeningly positive but I can deal with it since this is supposed to contain nothing that can be mistaken for being in any way depressing.

So some people say that life can be seen in two ways: mainly good, or mainly bad. I do not agree with this. My theory is that life has rare great moments and rare terrible moments, and the rest is generally boring; day to day living with a few laughs and a bit of work. I mentioned this to a friend and he said that my idea was a fairly pessimistic view on life, but I am going to be cliche` and say that is is just being realistic. That's not to say that life isn't good; just because life has many boring aspects, that doesn't mean that it can't be enjoyed. When I say boring I mean routine; work, school, sitting on the computer, watching television. These are all part of the routine of life, but they can still be enjoyed. When at work I look at the clock wishing that it would move more quickly because I have plans afterward, or just because I want to go home, but that doesn't mean that I don't enjoy myself while at work. Sure, for the majority of the time I am taking part in the boring routine of customers and smiling, but I have friends at work, and I joke and chat with them; I have fun. It's true that I would rather be out having fun, in other words a rare 'great' moments, but sometimes the boring moments like school and work can be fun as well. We spend hours at 'boring' school wishing we were at home, but we forget that our friends are there and although we are not necessarily taking part in our choice of group activities, but we are still enjoying being with them. I say 'rare' great moments and 'rare' terrible moments not because they hardly ever happen, it is just in comparison to the large amount of time spent in the routine times. We often forget that we need the pain and sadness in our lives so that we can feel the happiness. Without boredom there is no fun, and without pain there is no pleasure. I am not one to be giving advice, but I say try and enjoy even the boring, routine parts of life; that is what the majority of your time is dedicated to and if you don't realise that they can be fun, your life will be lacking something.

So I have posted something positive, finally. I will try and maintain my happy image, but in my opinion, if you can't be moody and complain on a blog then you can't be moody and complain anywhere, except maybe in your diary; that's manly. Nevertheless, I will most likely end up posting more teenage angst-ish sort of topics than bubbly joyful topics, but I promise I will try to give variety. Thanks for reading.
-Renji