At first thought of going around looking for things that make me either happy or sad I thought this was either going to be impossible and I thought I wouldn’t ever find things. That turned out to be far from the truth, as I was able to find things for both. And some things actually do both.

Great example is I woke up earlier last week, got showered and ready for class. But when I gotten out of the shower, I had an email from a professor saying that class was canceled. This is met with immediate happiness as I do not have to go to class this day. That is met with immediate questioning of what to do for the next two hours before my next class. This angers me in the slightest as I am ready for the day and some what awake so I know I will struggle.

Another thing that makes me happy is time off from school. I went on a trip with the cross country team to nationals and missed three days worth of classes. While gone on this trip I was constantly doing homework and constantly stressed out about when I was going to do my homework because of practice and the activities that we had planned. This is one of those things that make both.

Another things that happened this week that made me both happy and sad, but in reverse order was late Monday night. The Kansas City Chiefs were playing the Los Angeles Rams and the game came down to the last play where the Chiefs ended up throwing an interception causing them to lose the game 54-51.

This later made me happy as I realized I just witnessed the third highest scoring game in NFL history and the highest scoring by far on Monday Night Football. I also realized how many positives the Chiefs could take away from this game moving forward and I become positive overall about the whole experience.

These are just a few of my examples, so I searched for some more among others I know. One person I knew on campus threw a party this weekend I decided to talk to him about it after the fact. He said “throwing parties is fun, but the cleanup after almost ruins the whole experience.”

But, he did explain one huge positive of throwing parties. He loves the fact that people leave alcohol at the house, and lots of it and it makes it possible for him to go without having to purchase anything for awhile. It is a secret blessing in disguise.

Another situation that seems like a huge negative that turns to a positive in the long run is a track practice. While speaking with a girl she described the pain and agony of running fast and long intervals on the track and how it is one of the things that ruin her whole day while thinking about having to do them and planning her meals around the workout.

She did describe the feeling of running that first track meet of the year and knowing that those hard practices led to the success she had right out of the gate during track season. She looks back and is extremely grateful for the pain she went through during the hard interval days.

It’s the little things in life that make us happy or sad, but they are simply the things that can get us through a day if we keep an open mind about the whole things. Optimism is described as one of the biggest things needed in a positive lifestyle. A positive lifestyle turns into a positive outlook of life.