{"id":40272,"date":"2014-12-28T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=40255"},"modified":"2014-12-28T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T14:00:26","slug":"100-things-to-do-when-you-are-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/28\/100-things-to-do-when-you-are-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Things To Do When You Are Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"littleGirlInBlackDress\"100 Things To Do When You Are Sad <\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

By\u00a0the Girl with the Little Black Dress<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

I advise you to do these things on rainy days (I\u2019m not talking about the weather).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1.)\u00a0Use up a whole stick of Post-Its. Write names, poetry, phone numbers, dates. Stick them around your room.
\n2.)\u00a0Drink orange juice. Eat fruit. Buy some soup. I don\u2019t know. Just eat or drink something that makes you feel better.
\n3.)\u00a0Put on too many clothes. Several jackets, your favorite pair of sweats and some fuzzy socks ideally. (Sydney taught me this. It works I swear.)
\n4.)\u00a0Take a bath. Sylvia Plath said it best: \u00ab\u00a0There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won\u2019t cure, but I don\u2019t know many of them\u00a0\u00bb (The Bell Jar <\/i>). Get some candles, and put on your December playlist.
\n5.)\u00a0Look up pictures of dinosaurs. They are so cool.
\n6.)\u00a0Watch a French movie. I suggest Am\u00e9lie<\/i> or Joyeux No\u00ebl<\/i> or Les Choristes<\/i> or Populaire<\/i>. (Subtitles are a thing if you don\u2019t speak French.)
\n7.)\u00a0Know that when I was in 7th grade, I was real into purple eyeshadow, and I also thought saying \u00ab\u00a0groovy\u00a0\u00bb was hip with the kids.
\n8.)\u00a0Eat a whole cup of ice.
\n9.)\u00a0Google photos\u00a0of skylines. I prefer the New York City one, but whatever floats your boat. There\u2019s just\u00a0something about all those little lights dotting\u00a0sky rises that will remind you of other people\u2019s existence, and that reminder will be\u00a0calming somehow. (Some of those simmering dots are probably having bad days too.)
\n10.)\u00a0Roll down a hill.
\n11.)\u00a0Put on a dress that makes you feel important. Go downtown and walk around.
\n12.)\u00a0Remember that just as the leaves grow back green after winter, so, too, will you overcome the cold. It\u2019s a metaphor \u2013 you can and will start fresh. You, too, will be green.
\n13.)\u00a0Read the best thing you ever wrote. Be proud of yourself for writing it.
\n14.)\u00a0Listen to this song: The Postal Service \u2013 Turn Around<\/a>.
\n15.)\u00a0Wear a grey jacket. Put the hood up.
\n16.)\u00a0Study the solar system. Outer space is fascinating. Did you know that Jupiter\u2019s rings are made of dust? You, too, can make beautiful things out of dead cells.
\n17.)\u00a0Close your eyes and pretend that every bit of your body is melting into the earth. (This is how I fall asleep every night. It\u2019s so nice.)
\n18.)\u00a0I know that some days the reminders of human existence (coughs and whispers and tapping toes) will grate on your ears, but they should also remind you that you are existing too.
\n19.)\u00a0Apply way too much lotion.
\n20.)\u00a0Sit somewhere with a good view of the freeway. As the cars go by, think about how each car belongs to somebody who might like chocolate and rainy days too. Realize that we all might be more similar than you had originally thought.
\n21.)\u00a0Make cinnamon toast (Mix butter and cinnamon and spread on toast. Put toast in toaster. Eat hot.)
\n22.)\u00a0Put your favorite sweater into the dryer for 10 minutes and then put it on. Go watch The Office.
\n23.)\u00a0Find a marker and draw all over your body. On your thighs on your toes on your wrists. Draw butterflies and stripes and castles. It\u2019s real fun.
\n24.)\u00a0Put the Pandora Christmas Station on. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s July. Deck the halls anyways.
\n25.)\u00a0Sharpen all of your pencils.
\n26.)\u00a0Make an exercise playlist and go for a run. Let the air seep into your skin.
\n27.)\u00a0Have a Harry Potter marathon.
\n28.)\u00a0Jump on your bed. Throw pillows at the wall. Let it happen.
\n29.)\u00a0Listen to your favorite album from start to finish. I would choose Plans (Death Cab For Cutie), AM (Arctic Monkeys), or Mind Over Matter (Young The Giant). Turn the volume all the way up.
\n30.)\u00a0Email your favorite author and tell them how they changed your life. Maybe send them something you wrote.
\n31.)\u00a0Google Earth stalk Amsterdam or Istanbul or Vienna.
\n32.)\u00a0Put a ribbon in your hair. You can\u2019t be sad if you have a ribbon in your hair.
\n33.)\u00a0Look at photos from middle school. Self-five yourself for not looking like that anymore.
\n34.)\u00a0Put raspberries on each of your fingers and then eat them all as quickly as possible. (Do you get my reference?)
\n35.)\u00a0Print a map of your city or neighborhood or wherever, and circle all the places where you were once happy. The park where you ran barefoot on Saturdays. The convenience store where all the kids used to buy sour candy after school. Your first boyfriend\u2019s house. Can you go back to any of these places?
\n36.)\u00a0Decide what color you want to paint your future apartment.
\n37.)\u00a0Write with a fountain pen. If you do not have a fountain pen, that is probably why you are sad. Go buy yourself a fountain pen.
\n38.)\u00a0Make black out poetry.
\n39.)\u00a0Take a picture of the sky and tape it to your ceiling. Take a similar picture every day you feel sad and compare the skies. How many are grey? How many are blue?
\n40.)\u00a0Go to a museum you have never been to before. Get close enough to the paintings that you can see the brushstrokes (wonder if the artist ran his fingers over the painting once it dried).
\n41.)\u00a0Make a mood board and hang it up on your wall.
\n42.)\u00a0Take something you are really passionate about and write about it. Type five pages about why feminism, giraffes, or blankets are important.
\n43.) \u00a0Take Photo Booth photos with your cat. You actually don\u2019t even need to be sad to do this. I take about 10 per week. Example below.
\n\"Photo<\/a>
\n44.)\u00a0Shave your legs and wash your sheets. Then get in bed and try to be sad. Try. Yeah. It\u2019s impossible.
\n45.)\u00a0Go to http:\/\/www.rainymood.com<\/a> which plays rain and thunder noises and close your eyes.
\n46.)\u00a0Look at your horoscope. Believe it when it says things will get better and that you \u201care the reason butterfly hairpins and parachute pants have made a comeback\u201d (mine actually said this today. I don\u2019t know what it means, but I\u2019m flattered).
\n47.)\u00a0Try to eat a lemon plain without sugar if only to remind yourself that nothing, not even your life and\u00a0some of the people in it, is more sour than a lemon plain without sugar.
\n48.)\u00a0Buy a balloon and write what is upsetting you on it. Let it go.
\n49.)\u00a0Drink coffee. Or tea. Put in the perfect ratio of milk to sugar.
\n50.)\u00a0Put on a whole bunch of makeup. Look at yourself in the mirror. Realize that you look better without it.
\n51.)\u00a0Curl your hair even if you have nowhere to go.
\n52.)\u00a0Straighten the curls you just spent an hour twirling. Pretend you are smoothing out your problems. (Note: I recommend only doing this once in a while because it is not ideal for your hair \u2013 albeit quite satisfying.)
\n53.)\u00a0Make a daisy chain. A really long one. Leave it on the ground in the shape of a heart.
\n54.)\u00a0Bake cupcakes for your neighbor.
\n55.)\u00a0Cry.
\n56.)\u00a0Stop crying once you begin to fear for your body\u2019s water percentage.
\n57.)\u00a0Take a sheet of colored paper, (I prefer\u00a0green\u00a0for this) and cover it with your favorite lyrics. Tape it above your bed.
\n58.)\u00a0Type a note to someone who made you sad. Tell them they\u2019re a horrible person for making you sad. Write it with Caps Lock on. Use bad words if you need to. Then read it out loud. To your mirror. To your cat. Just make sure someone knows how dark grey that person made you feel. And then delete it slash them from your life.
\n59.)\u00a0Take your favorite fruit and dip it in your favorite kind of jam. I suggest pears in raspberry jam, but you do you.
\n60.)\u00a0Make a mixtape\/CD for yourself. Not a playlist. An old-school mixtape. Burn it onto a music playing thing, (is there a word for this? who knows?) and then see #84.
\n61.)\u00a0Draw something. It doesn\u2019t have to be good. Just distract yourself. Sketch your thumb. Doodle 200 daisies on lined paper. Trace someone else\u2019s hand.
\n62.)\u00a0Paint your nails a color you haven\u2019t painted them in a while. While you\u2019re at it, paint your toes that shade too.
\n63.)\u00a0Know that by the end of the day, your blood will have traveled 168,000,000 miles and you will have spoken about 48,000 words. Thats 6,720 times around the world and a book.
\n64.)\u00a0Close your eyes and pretend you are where you really want to be.
\n65.)\u00a0Write a letter in cursive to someone you love.
\n66.)\u00a0Do one of those old-school, green facials. Find a recipe online.
\n67.)\u00a0Read Paper Towns <\/i>by John Green. Appreciate this quote: \u00ab\u00a0That\u2019s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they\u2019re pretty. It\u2019s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.\u00a0\u00bb
\n68.)\u00a0Make sure that you have been picking your cereals based on taste instead of color. (Figuratively of course. But I guess literally, too, if thats a problem you have?)
\n69.)\u00a0Watch this video<\/a>.
\n70.)\u00a0Make lemon water and drink it chilled.
\n71.)\u00a0Pet your pet. (Disclaimer: this only works if you have a pet.)
\n72.)\u00a0Call somebody you haven\u2019t talked to in a while. Tell them what you miss about them. Remind them of a time they made you feel whole again. Thank them for picking up the phone.
\n73.)\u00a0Buy yourself flowers if you don\u2019t have someone to do it for you. Walk around and wonder if people are wondering if you have a significant other.
\n74.)\u00a0Think of the last time you were genuinely happy. Figure out why, and see if you can get that feeling back.
\n75.)\u00a0Paint a thing and mail it to someone.
\n76.)\u00a0Re-read your favorite childhood book.
\n77.)\u00a0Cook a big dinner for your parents. If you are like me and cannot cook, make them pasta and call it a day. They will appreciate the gesture.
\n78.)\u00a0Watch one or two or six episodes of My So Called Life.
\n79.)\u00a0Fill four pages with stream of consciousness writing. Then read them\u00a0and laugh at how ridiculous the things in your head are.
\n80.) The poisonous\u00a0people\u00a0are slowly dissolving\u00a0from your memory. They\u00a0aren\u2019t as important as they were yesterday, and maybe in a year, you won\u2019t think about them at all. Seven\u00a0months even. You will find new people to mess you up, and they\u00a0will be blushing and\u00a0lovely. Stop responding to empty, grey apologies. They aren\u2019t worth your Sunday nights any more.
\n81.)\u00a0Get a haircut. Not anything you\u2019ll regret, just something that will make you feel lighter.
\n82.)\u00a0Wear loose clothing.
\n83.)\u00a0Wear tight clothing.
\n84.)\u00a0Put your tape\/CD in your car and go for a drive. To your old preschool, to a bookstore, to the beach.
\n85.)\u00a0Buy yourself a new pair of sunglasses for when the sun comes back out. Again, I\u2019m not talking about the weather.
\n86.)\u00a0Do what I did once. Make a blog and share your random thoughts with the world. Maybe people will read them and care (thank you for reading and caring).
\n87.)\u00a0Make your favorite kind of tea and put it in your favorite mug. Sit on your bed and look through old photographs.
\n88.)\u00a0Read some Shel Silverstein poems. I know you have Where The Sidewalk Ends<\/i>somewhere on your bookshelf.
\n89.)\u00a0Read old messages. Laugh about how much things have changed. Chances are, it\u2019s all quite funny if you think about it.
\n90.)\u00a0Look up what time it is in another country. Think about what the sky looks like there. Are the people eating breakfast? Is it dark enough for kids to go skinny dipping? Is everyone asleep except for people working the night shift in hospitals and heavy-lidded people in love?
\n91.)\u00a0Find a jumprope in your garage. I know you have one somewhere. Jump until you feel like you don\u2019t ever want to jump ever again.
\n92.)\u00a0Teach yourself how to yo-yo or juggle or something else cool.
\n93.)\u00a0Finally figure out how to make those fancy\u00a0weaved bracelet things. You know what I\u2019m talking about.
\n94.)\u00a0Know that in Rennes, France, there is a man who wipes the fog off bus windows for people so they can see outside. Know that if you sat next to him, he would do the same for you.
\n95.)\u00a0Watch Tavi Gevinson\u2019s Ted Talk<\/a>.
\n96.)\u00a0Rearrange the furniture in your room. Maybe you need\u00a0the blue couch against the wall.
\n97.)\u00a0Mix frozen raspberries and yogurt in a blender. Homemade frozen yogurt. Bam.
\n98.)\u00a0Email me (natalieslovelyblog1@gmail.com<\/a>). I check my blog email quite a bit (7-8 times a day. It\u2019s a bit compulsive I admit. I might have a problem.) and am always always happy to cheer you up. I might even send you photos of kittens depending on how bad it is.
\n99.)\u00a0Hang black-and-white pictures up on your wall.
\n100.)\u00a0Just as traffic lights turn from red to green to yellow and twelve-year-olds start putting on mascara when they turn into\u00a0thirteen-year-olds and we all start caring less and less about birthdays, the world around you is shifting. Things will change, and they will get better.
\nXX, The Girl in the Little Black Dress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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