Cheers!

[elfs]

First, the lemming:


You are a - Geek Sheep! you're one l33t g33|< 5|-|33p! No one understands a word you're saying, but you don't care. Bespectacled geek by day, fearsome DND warrior by night! Geek power ;)

Which flock do you follow?

And, more serious stuff:

miraclemax asked the question, "What do you do to cheer yourself up?"

I don't. I don't have to.

I think I can say without controversy that there exists an "average" human state, where people are neither cheered nor depressed. I think it's also not controversial that there are people who are mildly or severely depressed most of the time.

I seem to be mildly cheered most of the time. I've never learned "coping skills" for my depression; I've learned coping skills for dealing with a relentless optimism that presumes the car will never break down, that my keys will never get lost, that I need never make backups of my data, and so on. I'm trying to master the Heinlein "optimist by temperment, pessimist by policy" policy, but it's hard to think like a pessimist when the world is, like, so fucking cool most of the time.

Comments

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

it's hard to think like a pessimist when the world is, like, so fucking cool most of the time

No wonder I like you, Elf; that outlook is very similar to my own.

[kyriani.livejournal.com]

That attitude just amazes me, I've spent too much of my life depressed. Its nice to know that there are actually people like that in the world. ^_^

[miraclemax.livejournal.com]

it's hard to think like a pessimist when the world is, like, so fucking cool most of the time.

Wow, that's a fantastic quote. I'd like to frame that for my wall :) I must be getting old. I don't remember asking this question ;)