There are things you can do to make sure you're not angry all the time. I have several myself.
I don't watch local news, or any show about celebrity gossip. Unless you count the Soup, which makes fun of shows like that but also sometimes makes me angry.
I don't listen to commercial radio. Classic rock or pabulum rock stations ensure that shitty songs that are stuck in my head because I listened to radio when I was younger are more permanently etched in my brain; modern stations remind me how sad & soulless the music industry really is.
I mean, the same songs that I loathe now that I had to listen to over & over when I was ten are not only still being played, but if you're a ten-year-old & your parent is listening to whatever godawful radio station plays the ordure that you might see at a Grammy or American Music Awards ceremony, you're now, years later, in the same boat we all are: we know all the words to fucking Billy Joel songs. There's got to be some way to make our parents pay for that.
I don't engage in any online discussions ever. About two years ago I had a simple question I asked a conservative friend & she decided to respond by shitting vitriol into my eyes. It's already a cliché that people are bigger assholes behind their screen names than they would actually be in real life. But Christ, why even bother? Have you ever been swayed by a rational argument on a message board?
I don't always tell people my opinion about something. It's much easier to smile & nod while someone talks to you about a transcendent experience at something they did which was so obviously horrible that you wouldn't wish Gitmo detainees to experience it. Oh, & I hope they do the same for me.
I do try not to be so negative. I try not to say "don't" all the time. Especially in lists.
I mean... Oh hell.
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