Things I do when I'm sad

To make me feel better. Sometimes separately, sometimes simultaneously. Just felt like sharing a select few. They can change depending on the type, level and magnitude of the sadness.

1. Listen to more sad songs
Finding songs one can relate to. Preferably emotional ones. Nodding to every line and saying to oneself “that’s so true”, “that’s me!” “yes, I do feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind”.

2. Cry

Letting the water-works “free-fall from your eyes”. It can feel good. Although one preferably does this away from crowded areas and free from the public eye.

3. Curl up in bed
Pulling the blanket over one's head. It's warm and comforting. One may even do number twos during this (as in the second item on the list -- "Cry").

3. Eat
Warm foods on cold days. Junk food generally hits the spot. Decadent ice creams in hot weather. They fill the empty void found in one during times of melancholia.

4. Wash the dishes
Okay, dishwater is dirty and most likely has food scraps floating around in it. One may wear gloves when one does this chore and it protects one from the aforementioned disgusting stuff. But the gloves still let one feel the heat from the warm, soapy dishwater. In a sense, one is effectively having their cake and eating it too.

Furthermore, there’s something calming in the methodical way the dishes get scrubbed, rinsed, and put away. Seeing a clean sink makes one happy.

5. Watch nigahiga/kevjumba
Their short and sweet clips make one's mood lighter by shades.

6. Online shopping

One finds delight in accruing their collection of material possessions from the comfort of their home. It makes one feel pretty inside.

7. Read FML

By finding delight in the misfortunes of others, one is being economical.