When you're really feeling down in the dumps or pent up about something you can't fix, take a friend out to the grocery
store and buy the largest package (or two) of spaghetti noodles you can find. Take them somewhere where it's okay
and convenient to make a mess, but keep it on the concrete for best glide. Break the spaghetti over the concrete by
the handfulls. The feeling of every single strand breaking is cathartic. After you've broken all the
spaghetti, go spaghetti skating (somewhat carefully) across the broken pieces. The more the merrier.
When pouring fresh, carbonated soda into a glass filled with ice, pour as slowly as you can to listen for that sizzlingly
sweet sound of millions of tiny bubbles bursting. Remember that lots of bubbles have to burst for a little sweet
satisfaction.
When washing your hands, hog the sink. Take 5-7 minutes to let the near-scalding water run over your hands, wrists
and even forearms as you breathe in the steam. You might want to try to making strange faces into the mirror.
Escape via the silver screen. See something uplifting or funny. See something you've never heard of.
Relish in the feeling of re-emergence when you leave the dark theater and readjust your vision to real life mode.
Sing.
No matter how tone deaf you may claim to be, singing at any level will boost your morale as well as your immune system.
Singing is a natural way to take the focus off the bad stuff that doesn't hurt too much.
Take a bike ride or a walk....'nuff said.
Channel your inner-teenage-gothic-webmaster. Type a page of rants out. Give a webpage a white font and a black background
to be especially dark.
