A contradictory forward

This morning I was feeling especially low. Nothing is going right in my life. No matter what I'm doing, everything is going wrong. But life has to go on! So despite all the miserable feelings I reach office and try to find solace in my cubicle. I sign-in to my mailbox and find an interesting forward which says, "How to stay happy". This is like God answering my prayers staright away. For a moment I felt as if all my bad feelings are about to disappear and I open the forward with high hopes.

Tip 1 : Try everything twice : I just did. Had one failed relationship. Moved on to the next with a lot of hope and it crashed.

Tip 2 : Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down : I do! I have loads of cheerful friends but one is cheerful only when all is well in one's life. And when all is well, the last thing that matters to you is someone else's life going for a toss. So cheerful friends really don't help. You are on yuor own when all goes wrong.

Tip 3 : Keep learning : That's what I've been doing! Learning the hard facts of life. Everytime I think I've learnt from my experience and this time I can't go wrong, it happens just the other way. Everything goes wrong.

Tip 4 : Enjoy the simple things in life : That's all I want! The simplest thing called love but it always deludes me. They say the more you give in love the more you get back. Absolutely! The more love I give, the more pain I get back.

Tip 5 : Laugh often, long and loud : Believe me I want to. Till life decided to mess things up for me I was one of the most cheerful people around. But now I'm scared to laugh. For every ounce of laughter I have to shed gallons of tears. So laughter is also ruled out.

Tip 6 : The tears happen - endure, grieve and move on : Again, that's exactly what I want to do. I cry, move on and just when I think my share of tears are over, it happens yet again. It's almost like I'm cursed.

Tip 7 : Surround yourself with what you love : Again, I told you I'm cursed. The things that I surround myself with give me happiness jsut till I get used to them. The moment I start revelling in that happiness, they become the very things that become the reason for my tears.

Tip 8 : Cherish your health : That's the only thing I can call my own I guess. But again, happiness makes you want to cherish your health. So when you are sad and depressed, the last thing that can bring a smile on your face is good health because you are sick of yourself!

Tip 9 : Don't take guilt trips : What other trip can you take? You go through it again and again; life tells you to lose faith in love; but does your heart listen? You still go ahead, fall in love and it happens yet again. The only thing you are left with is guilt.

Tip 10 : Forgive now those who made you cry : I do and have already done. But it hasn't helped. I still have millions of moments haunting me and killing me every moment.

So none of the tips worked. Naturally! I was a fool to still have hope that there can be some magic mail that can make me happy when everything has failed in life!