Sulagna Dasgupta

A Quick Recipe To Cheer Yourself Up When You're Feeling Down



Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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Love in India

Today I've decided to share my techniques of warding off that monster called feeling bad' with you.

This brings me to my favorite topic-Harry Potter. If you have friends like him and Ron and Hermione, it's difficult to feel anything but cheerful, actually. I mean whenever I'm feeling down, I just open any of those 7 wonders-of-the-world and start reading. It really makes me feel happy in no time. That's probably because it provides such an escape from the world around me and takes me to a world filled with love, friendship, loyalty and all the other good things of the world. Also there's magic too, to spice it up a bit!

Now am I being as unfair as to suggest that whoever is not a Potter-maniac doesn't have any quick-fix like this? No. But I'm certainly trying to tell you that fantasy and children's literature really are good things to read, for a simple reason-they take you back to those wonderful, happy, carefree days of childhood. You might try picking up any REALLY GOOD book of children's stories and making it a point to read it for about 10 to 15 minutes everyday, so that you can start reading this book when you feel bad next.

(If you really are reading Harry Potter books, one word of caution-don't read the final pages of climax. Read those pages in the first part of the book, where the three friends are having incredible fun at school, or in The Burrow!)

But don't get me wrong! I'm not saying the ultimate solution to a pressing problem (yes I used that banned word to mean whatever it is that's making you feel bad) is escaping from reality! This is just a way to make you feel relaxed, because unless you're relaxed and have your head free of worry and anxiety, you can hardly even start addressing the problem.

So after you've read for a while and have laughed with the characters, you can go back to getting your act together, and to trying to find a solution to whatever was bothering you initially.

Well, that's what I do to make myself cheer myself up. You can also try listening to light, soothing music (I mean hard rock will probably not work.), calling close friends and talking to them, spending time with your partner etc. Watching television might not always be a good idea here.

Hope that'll help whenever you're tending to be gloomy the next time!

Log on to www.loveinindia.co.in for answers to all your relationship related queries. Sulagna can be emailed at sulagna@loveinindia.co.in with individual queries and requests for specific love and relationship related advice. She replies to every one of such emails, and all of this is free.

Sulagna is also an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She is currently pursuing her Double Degree in International Management from the University of Bocconi, Milan.

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