“Snap out of it!”
Everyone has a “bad day” now and then. If you are lucky, the “blues” might get you down for just a few moments. Hopefully, you have never experienced or will never experience being “down in the dumps” for too long. However long these moments last, it is important to know what helps to pick you back up. What cures your blues? What has the ability to snap you out of it?
When I am having a bad moment, I know that all will be better with a simple thing called CHOCOLATE! Many of you have seen the jar of M & M’s, “teacher pills” as some of us affectionately call them, on my desk. A little bit of chocolate can go a long way. This sweet delight might come in the form of candy, cake, or hot cocoa for the wintertime blues. I don’t question why or how this delicious stuff gives me a “pick up” from these moments–I am just happy it is so successful.
At the end of a not-so-great-day, when I need more than chocolate to cheer me up, I turn to music. Listening to the words and sounds of U2, Matchbox Twenty, Bon Jovi, and even Frank Sinatra miraculously lifts me up and carries me into a better place. Music is like medicine for my unfortunate mood.
For me, there is one place that has the ability to erase anything bad. There is no such thing as a bad moment, a bad day, or a bad anything when I am at the beach. I don’t know what it is, but when I am at the beach the “bad stuff’” is at bay. It could be as simple as the fact that I am a Pisces. You know this means, if you believe in that Zodiac-stuff, that I am a fish. So, perhaps I am meant to be frolicking surf-side twenty-four-seven. With the sand between my toes, the relentless rhythm of the waves hitting the shore, and the soft, salty air, I have no cares while I am in the protective custody of the beach. It doesn’t even need it to be sunny when I am at the beach. Rain or shine–the beach is my happy place.
In the span of a lifetime, we will all experience many not-so-pleasant things. I think it’s important for us to know how to pick ourselves up from these bad moments. If we don’t turn to these things, or to these people, or to these places, the moments may easily turn into days, or weeks, or years. What is it or who is it that cheers you up, gets you out of the dumps, helps to cure your blues, snaps you out of it?
“What’s important is finding out what works for you.” –Henry Moore
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