User blog comment:Toothy-And-Timid/Positive things/@comment-37627195-20181221024808

Hey Timid-and-Toothy, here is something you should always remember about life:No matter how horrible things may seem, things will always get better in the future. When one door closes, another door (sometimes even a better door) is bound to open in it's favor. Keep in mind that no the forces of life (whether you personally call it the universe, God, Mother Nature, or whatever else you believe that force to be), will never forget you and will make sure that things will get better during any situation. Sometimes situations become dire and the world begins to feel horrible, you may begin to convince yourself that everything sucks and your life will be terrible forever. But being negative never changes anything. I know this seems like some sort of superstition, but it is actually a proven scientific fact that most (if not all) of the world's respected scientists believe in:If you focus on negative things, negativity will come to you but if you always stay positive no matter what, good things are guaranteed to come. Here are some examples from my personal life that our worth mentioning:

1. The most depressed I've ever been is when one of my friends got addicted to meth a couple years back. She went completely crazy and was forced to leave town in fear of the local police finding out. After that happened, I hated my life. I would cry all day long, I couldn't eat or sleep, my joy of life was completely nonexistent after that fateful day. But one day, I was attending the local library and the librarian approached me commenting on how cool the Batman shirt I was wearing at the time was. We then went into the back room and spent nearly half the evening talking, laughing, and having fun. Little did I realize this at the moment, but that night while I was in bed an amazing thought hit me. She was going to be the new friend I needed to fill the void the other one left in my heart. Sure enough, she and I have become best friends to this day and we know almost everything about each other. She truly was exactly what I needed after losing the other friend due to that horrible addiction.

2. Last year, my beloved dog whom I treated like a family member had to be put to sleep after he got a cancerous tumor in his back. Life began to slowly fall apart and my happiness was nowhere to be found after that tragedy happened. My strong affection for this dog was far from just the average pet relationship most people have with their dogs/cats, he was the fullest definition of the term "dog is man's best friend". So when he died, I felt empty inside. But then this Spring, my dad came home from a brief grocery store trip with a wonderful surprise I'll never forget. It was an adorable little puppy. While my love for the other dog will obviously never fully go away and I still miss him to an extent, that puppy has definitely helped me get over the loss. He's so similar to the dog who died that I've questioned whether or not he was somewhat of a relative to him.

3. When one of my favorite TV series, the hilariously irreverent puppet show Wonder Showzen got cancelled after 2 seasons I was more bummed than you could possibly imagine. While a made-up TV show is obviously nowhere near as depressing/traumatic as losing a friend or a beloved pet, it still really hurt. You see, Wonder Showzen was THE show that literally got me out of depression. It's hilarious dark humor and adorable puppet characters made life even sweeter than it already was to me so when it got cancelled that early on in the series' run, I was not yet ready to say good-bye to the thing that made me look forward to Saturday nights very much. But then one evening a couple weeks later as I was flipping through TV channels, I came across something that intrigued me. What I saw was a hilarious Wonder Showzen-esque clip of Mr. Rogers drowning somebody for not listening to his commands on the set. Dark humor combined with children's media? That sounds like a perfect replacement for Wonder Showzen to me. The series in question was called Robot Chicken and it was exactly the Wonder Showzen substitute I needed. I spent the rest of my weekend binging that show and laughing until my sides hurt.