Cheer up! - How to fight a bad day

I’m sure all of you know the these days when you want to do nothing but shout out in anger and kick all your aggressions into a punchbag. Everyone knows this feeling, wouldn’t be human if you didn’t. Keeping thinking about who or what made you go mad won’t do them any harm and you won’t feel any better by doing this. Letting off the steam or distracting yourself doing things you enjoy is always better than bottling up your emotions. People have discovered their personal ways to do this. I want to tell you what I do to blow the cobwebs away. Maybe you’ll find something useful for yourself.

As you may know from my previous blog posts, I am a huge music-lover. So, it’s obvious that I’d feel much better after listening to an incredible piece of music. When I am extremely outraged, I usually turn on a Rock or Punk-Rock song at high volume. I also enjoy sitting down at the piano to play some anger-influenced music myself (No, you don’t need drums or a bass guitar to abreact, a piano does the job as well.) It always surprises me at what speed anger can make my fingers fly across the keys. But not only fast or a little bit aggressive music can help you let out your anger. If a calm or melancholic song is more the type of music that puts a smile upon your face, go for that!

Many people say the best thing one can do to cool off is doing sports. Since I’m not really into kick boxing or push-ups, I’d choose to go for a walk instead. The fresh air will refresh your mind and if you’re lucky the sun might even be there to broaden your smile. Put in your headphones and switch off the world around you.

We tend to tell ourselves not to eat too much unhealthy stuff, smoke, or consume large amounts of coffee. Why always be so strict with ourselves? Will eating a bigmac or smoking a cigarette once in a while really affect our health that much? It shouldn’t become a habit, but in some situations even small things like that make us feel a little better.

The worst mistake one could make on a bad day like this is to bolt themselves in and avoid any contact with people. Afraid you could bother your friends, boyfriend/girlfriend, or family too much with your problems? You’re wrong! Let’s be honest, we are all not big fans of listening to our beloved ones complaining about their hard lives. But, we do it because we love them and therefore don’t mind. Everybody has their bad days.

So, instead of thinking how unfair life is, call a friend, cuddle your pet, or scarf down a whole chocolate bar. And if nothing else helps making your life seem a little brighter, open the paper and see that there are millions of people out there who are worse off than you.