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__A fun way to read about staying happy__
 * __Look on the Bright Side:__**
 * __By: Jonathan Ko__**

=__Intro__= Have you ever really wanted to be happy like for a photo but couldn’t? To tell you the truth, at least for me, it is really hard to be PURELY happy. Like when you find a $50 dollar bill on the street, buy a new video game, get 100% on your test, and have your friends over to play the new game. WOW, that was a mouthful… This book will tell you tips, ways, and stories to help you be purely happy and stay purely happy.

=__Tip # 1__=

“If you give a teaspoon you will get a shovel.”- Joel Osteen
I find that tip is very true because if you help set up the dinner table and maybe help with the dishes or laundry, you help your parents lighten their loads of work and they will be more friendly toward you, which will make you be more happy. Also, if you show them that you are responsible, they might just play catch in the backyard with you. You don’t have to mow other people’s lawn, maybe just holding the door for some people, and believe me, if you maybe do that once a day, you will become happier. It only takes a couple of seconds each day.

=__Tip # 2__= Have you ever had a really bad day and at the dinner table you let out a loud, long, line of complaints? Did your voice get louder? Did you remember more bad things? Did you get more stressed? Uh-huh, that’s what I thought… you did. So try not to complain. When you do complain you think about all the things that went wrong, and you think that you had a terrible day, which make you boiling mad, which is NOT happy. See if you can go without complaining for 1 week. I know it seems hard and it really is! So at the **least, please try to resist complaining…please!**

=__TIP # 3 (HA, HA, HA…)__= Did you know that laughing actually helps prevent aging? Not like fake laughing buy pure laughing. Don’t you feel a bit happier when you laugh! Well of COURSE you do… It is like the opposite of complaining. You think about funny or happy things and, well, you become happy. So… tell jokes and read the Sunday comics!

=__Tip # 4__= “When one door closes, another one opens.” Have hope in the times of sadness and it will all get better soon and there will be great opportunity. Defeat just leads to greatness when we stick with it and don’t give up. Think about the horrible times of the Great Depression. It was the lowest of the low times in history and we got through it because we had hope. Hope makes us more determined to get out of the bad times, so we work harder. Hope is the key that unlocks all the bad times and lets in the good times. So, have hope.

=__Tip # 5__= “Look on the bright side.” As this quote explains, look on the good side of your problems and you will feel much better. Things could have been A TON worse than it is now. You got a lot of homework? At least you don't have a test or worse… (Gulp)… the ISATS. So think about how lucky we really are. (And also, we’re really lucky that we don’t have to worry about radioactive tree lizards eating our homework…)

=__Tip # 6__=

“Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hat leads to suffering…”
-Yoda, Star Wars Episode 1 “Fear is the shadow of great opportunity.”

I know, these quotes are kind of contradicting eachother, but they happen in order. Fear leads to suffering, but later it leads to the fountain of extreme opportunity. Don’t be ashamed of having fear, think about it as a path to greatness. Still don’t try to be afraid. Or else, that would be VERY BAD!!!!!!!!!

=__Tip # 7__= This is one of the most important tips. Be grateful. When you think you have it the worst, think about what you have, not what you don’t. It’s called counting your blessings. We have amazing lives, and we should be thankful for what we have. We always have plenty of food to eat and we never go to bed hungry. The book, “If the World were a Village” revolves around the concept that we are extremely fortunate to have lives like our own. I encourage you to read this book. Try to remember this tip the MOST!!!!!

=__Tip # 8__= Do things that you love to do. When you play soccer or whatever you like doing, aren’t you happier? That is because you enjoy it. Personally I like playing video games and designing houses, so I would design a house in “The Sims” and look for an infinite money cheat. This especially applies for work. If you don’t like your work then you will HATE getting up for work. If you like your work then you will do what you love to do and get money for it. So do things that you love to do…(sigh)…after you finish your homework… Do not procrastinate or else you will explode out of anger and frustration. You know I am just kidding…or do you…Yes I am kidding. But you will get so angry that you get mutant powers and… sorry, I have been watching a lot of science fiction lately… you WILL be really stressed out though. If you didn’t already know, procrastination is when you put the things that need to be done, put off for later. For example, it is Tuesday today and you just bought a new video game, but you have three worksheets that are due on Thursday. You choose to… play the video game. You play it, then your friends sees if you can sleep over at his house, and you say yes. You wake up the next day, go to school, come back to your own house, then you realize that you have 3 worksheets that are due tomorrow. Then ironically, your friends are playing outside and you ask if you can join. They say yes… After the game you go to have pizza and you go back home really tired and really full. Then you fall into a deep sleep… the next day at school the teacher asks, “I hope you all found pyramids and angles interesting topics.” You can’t find it!!!!! You walk up to the teacher, little and helpless and tell the teacher. A note gets sent to your parents and you have to do ETERNAL loads of extra chores! (MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
 * __Tip # 9__**

“It is illogical to dwell on situations that are out of your control” -Tuvok, Startrek voyager
 * __Tip # 10__**

That is the most AMAZING quote I have ever seen because it is really true. Think about if you forgot your homework at school, then you think about it all day. It just keeps coming into your mind but you can’t do anything about it. You think about it but you can’t do anything about it so… WHY ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT IT, IT”S NOT LIKE YOU CAN FIX IT!!!

Karma is cool.
 * __Tip # 11__**

Karma = if you do good things, goods things will happen to you. If you do bad things, bad things will happen to you.

It is almost like taking revenge on yourself. So if you don’t want radioactive monkeys with huge fangs knocking on your front, then I suggest that you don’t do BAD things and hold the door for someone every day…

What does happy mean? There is only one word to describe it… CONTENT! Yes, happy means content or normal. You don’t have to smile abnormally… so if you don’t find a quarter on the street then you didn’t have a horrible day.
 * __Tip # 12__**

Meaning of tip: Happy = content or normal…NOT jumping off the wall, super sugar rush, or EXTREME coffee behaviors…

“Who you are does not change, it is condition that does.” -Joel Osteen
 * __Tip # 13__**

Everyone is meant to be a blessing to the Earth and to do amazing things to help everyone = who you are Sure, everyone is meant to do amazing things but why isn’t everyone like heroes? It is because we need to channel our hope and goodness to be what we are made to be. Get out of self-pity, be a blessing.

Why do we steal, and just do bad things? It is because the misbehaver wants attention- anyway. Either it is good attention or bad attention.
 * __Tip # 14__**

Good attention is like praise and rewards. Bad attention is like scolding and punishing.

So really… don’t do bad things for attention…

“Cherish everyday like it is your last.”
 * __Tip # 15__**

If this very day were your last, wouldn’t you do something nice for other people? Well why can’t everyday be a day where you are nice to people? Tell your dad that you really appreciate him mowing the lawn. Because you won’t know when the day comes for you to go…

Now…it is time for you to go now my young padawan. I now have one thing to tell you…why did the chicken cross the road!
 * __Ending statement__**

From, Rariojomo11 or____________ A.K.A. : Jon Ko