Tired hands cradle a tired head. A cracking heart sinks deeper into his chest cavity as the bubble of misery rises higher and higher in his throat. Tears tease his flickering eyelids with the threat of a flood, but they find no release and the emotions building up within the prison of his chest stubbornly press on his lungs. Ragged sighs try to grow into sobs, but a strangling anger chokes them back, and he breathes with a sort of growling groan, short, sharp and bitter.
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When you read that description of emotional pain, how does it make you feel? Depressed? Angry? Frustrated? Why? It's not because of the hardship of this man or boy or whoever he is. You don't even know why he is miserable, and it really doesn't matter. Because you're not sad for him. You're sad for yourself. You're thinking about all the things that have made or could make you feel that way. That painfully depressed. Yet it's only your depressing thoughts. It's not your life circumstances.
So, someone says, Think happier. Does that make a difference? I mean really, could that possibly even work? Sure it could. Our emotions are greatly influenced by the thoughts we let pass through our minds. You think what you read. The more colorful the words, the more vivid the thoughts. Think about what you read. When we consume our time feasting on the difficulties and struggles of life and all the things that seem to us unfair, we will certainly find ourselves to be unhappy and reveling in self-pity.
So think happier.
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