Feelin’ shitty?

Is it your period? Are you hung over and embarrassed of your drunken behavior? Do you have a disease? Did you do a disasterous fail?

Then what use is fun?

First, stop thinking that fun is inherently light-hearted. Horror films are fun. Some people think running ultra-marathons is fun. Darkness is fun.

Get into it

1. Accept your shitty feeling. Stop trying to change it. Don’t even think about “snapping out of it”. Starting an conflict with yourself in this state just makes it worse. You feel like shit and it’s fine.
2. Get into your shitty feeling. Cry. Complain. Bitch and moan. Journal. In fact, start a whole new journal just for this. A cheap one you can throw away later.
3. Go grocery shopping. Get food and supplies for the next few days.
4. Lock yourself in your house and rot. Get in jammies. Make moody lighting. Play video games. Watch garbage on TV. Ignore chores. Skip your classes. Call in sick to work. (this is called space-shipping)

That’s it

Validating yourself feels amazing and makes it pass faster than if you try to fight it or change it. You’ll soon get bored and have a great idea for a thing to do and it will be over.

Repressing your negative emotions, especially anger and sadness, causes cancer at the same rate as smoking a pack a day. Don’t repress it. Get into it.

It’s fun

Feels a little naughty to stop performing “being ok”. Feels good to feel like shit.