Come On Get Happy!

  This post has no real substance to it, just something I felt I needed to remind you of. Everybody needs to be happy at least once and a while! You can't be all doom-and-gloom all the time, because if you are then you're doom-and-gloom all the time. And you can't let yourself be afraid to be happy for some twisted pathological reason, because that's how serial killers are born (fact: Son of Sam was never told any jokes when he was younger. Fact: I don't know what "fact" means, exactly). I'm not talking about being happy when you hear "Firework" on the radio for the eightieth time today (I don't like that song much, either. And, fact, too much concentrated Katy Perry can literally make your brain explode, and not in the fun way that the Rolling Stones and The Black Keys can) or when you manage to drive to work on fumes in the gas tank (although, on the last one, good for you). 
  Everybody needs a "happy day" where they do all their favorite fun things and don't let anyone bother them. For me, this includes writing, eating chocolate, blogging (duh!), hanging out with my friends, and/or seeing a rabbit or two out my bedroom window. But you don't have to force a whole day of fun, either: You should manage to take the time to find the fun in the everyday, too, like when I saw a deer running in the woods on the way to school on the bus last week. 
  I have fun listening to the happy, bouncy song "I Think I Love You" (don't dis, you love it too, you punk) and just listening to the words and stuff, or when I bite a piece of chocolate cake and flavor explodes in my mouth, or I finally--finally--figure out a complicated math equation and X fits just right, like porridge, or when I write through a particularly thick chunk of writer's block and come up with something better than I have written ever before.
  So, here's what Doctor NiteOwl prescribes: Have a "happy day" or, if that's not technologically possible for some reason or another, find the happiness in small, everyday things, like retro TV shows or YouTube videos of baby pandas and kittens and people doing something dumb. Take with a glass of soda (shake it first and laugh at the bubbles) and enjoy!
  "I think I love you..."