Tell me something good

[HFS]

I'll give you my little summary up front, and I'm sure this quote is wrong somehow:
Of all the thieving riffraff, fools are the worst because they steal both your time and good mood. - Goethe

Things that constantly suck both your time and emotion are the devil.
And that old guy didn't have the 24 hour news cycle and the internet.

If websites or people or certain TV shows seem to hurt your health more than help, cut that out of your life.

I'm thinking you're retired but if you have a job-
Somebody wrote in another thread, try very hard to forget that place (practice putting it totally out of your mind) until you have to go in the next day.
I know W-O-R-K has always been a 4 letter word but a lot of jobs now are the biggest time and drama suck fest of all.

 

[ttown]

Sounds like your a little depressed. How about a small road trip for a getaway? Medicine Park, go to a heated fishing dock, or some such depending on your interest.

 

[SlugSlinger]

I don’t know about you guys but I’ve really been struggling with negativity lately. Had knee replacement for the 3rd time since Nov of 2019 on the 17th. The good news is it’s getting better each day and I think they finally got it right this time.

I need to stay off of Twitter, read less news, and do what I can to help make the world a better place. I have a wonderful woman who loves me, best grandkids in the world, and no health issues besides the knee. Tell me something good happening in your world.

I’m tired of being a grouchy old fart. Almost shot the FedEx guy yesterday for getting on my lawn until I realized he was bringing me stuff I’d ordered.

Dude - you need to read what you wrote right there.

Talk to the guys that have lost their wives. (there was a thread here just the other day)

Talk to some guys that have lost their children or grandchildren.

You have it made. Screw the rest of the world.

Just living life, sometimes it's hard to see what you have right in front of you until something changes. Enjoy what you have pstmstr because you have everything!

 

[Louro]

I don’t know about you guys but I’ve really been struggling with negativity lately. Had knee replacement for the 3rd time since Nov of 2019 on the 17th

Crappie is biting............ that is good news.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

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get a dog and quit watching the news!

Black Panther!

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Find an organization that you enjoy what they do and volunteer for them. Around here we have Meals on Wheels. Volunteers deliver warm meals to home bound folks Monday through Friday. Usually different groups volunteer for 2 week stretches at a time. It is often a highlight of their day when someone brings their lunch to them. I have volunteered when the roads were bad and older folks didn't need to be walking out in it. It is really enjoyable.

The Senior Citizens center receives some funding to prepare/provide nutritious meals for senior citizens at no cost or low cost. The meals are prepared and packaged to prevent spilling and are packed into insulated totes. Deliverers are usually busy for about an hour, or a little longer when covering 2 routes in the inclement weather days.

 

[turkeyrun]

THIS IS EVEN FUNNIER WHEN YOU REALIZE IT'S REAL!

Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.
Bob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs.

Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.5 on FM dial in Indiana, who was sponsoring a 'WORST JOB EXPERIENCE' contest. Needless to say, she won! Read his letter below.

Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.

As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office.. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.

What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my ass started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it, however, the crack of my ass was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my ass. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say, I aborted the dive.

I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet.. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't **** for two days because my ass was swollen shut.

So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your ass.

Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.' Whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself... IS THIS A JELLYFISH BAD DAY?

 

[Hawgman]

Come tomorrow start drinking very heavily. Like, a liter of alcohol a day. And I mean every single day whether you want to or not. Somewhere over the next year you will become addicted to it and it will be damaging to your health and your life. Then you can look back to now and say "Gee, my life sure was great before I became an alcoholic". Or you can begin this very day getting in the habit of reminding yourself that the things you face are no different than the kinds of things everybody else does. And it sounds like you have it better than at least 70% of planet Earth (very conservative estimate).

I'm convinced that ones thinking patterns are formed by two things. Habit and environment. Develop more positive thinking habits (requires sustained conscious effort) and move toward more positive environments (people, places, things) and your mind will start to pivot towards a more positive natural state of being.

 

[Mos Eisley]

I normally wouldn't say this but, did you watch that game Sunday night? That was a (an?) historical NFL game! I'm partial, mind you, but still. I'm no where near the fan my screaming-at-the-top-of-her-lungs wife is, but damn! And God bless her, she got tickets to the Championship given to her for this Sunday. Our roles are reversed compared to most couples in this scenario. I would rather watch it from the house.

It was a good post season for the NFL this year...if you watched. Small, satisfying wins to most of us is what matters.

 

[wawazat]

I have found two major things that seem to be directly correlated to my feelings of happiness. The first was finally going to a men's health specialist and finding out I had incredibly low testosterone in my early 30s. The second is doing at least 30min of exercise every morning, especially when I don't want to. That small bit of forcing myself to be uncomfortable and working towards a better me really sets a good tone for the day.

Like many of you here, I have an amazing family (even the inlaws), a happy home with no real drama, bills paid, and a full pantry. There is nothing really to feel negative about, but sometimes it is easy to forget how precious these foundational parts of our lives are.

For a slightly more materialistic bit of good news, the gun safe I ordered almost 6 months ago is finally scheduled to be delivered end of this week!