The article also mentioned that when thinking of the future, people tend to overestimate the consequences. For positive events, people tend to predict that they will feel more overjoyed than if it happened in real life, and for negative events, they predict that they will feel more frightened or panicked than in reality. It said how this can be perceived as the mind's "immune system" ...
There's nothing to worry about, right? We can't control the future, so might as well live it carpe diem-style. (Easier said than done, unfortunately.)
Besides my other resolutions, I'm going to make this a life-time goal: to be truly happy. To be truly without worries or anxieties. To be truly relaxed. To be truly strong. To be truly faithful. To be truly resilient. I've been too negative. I don't have to live in my fears any more. I can change. I can be truly happy, and I will be. I deserve it.
I am making a list of things that make me happy. And I am going to do these things, so that I can become happier each day.
What makes me happy
--Good-smelling lotion
--Trees, flowers
--Sunny places
--Chocolate merengues
--Everybody Loves Raymond
--"Island in the Sun" by Weezer
--"Futures" by Jimmy Eat World
--Clay Aiken
--Dogs, puppies
--God
--"Four Seasons" by Vivaldi
--Shopping
--Writing letters
--Engrish.com
--Phone calls
--"On the Way Down" by Ryan Cabreras
--Palm trees
--Tangerines, apples
--Ice cream
--Stupid movies
--Dancing (when nobody's watching)
--Singing my head off (when nobody's listening)
--Laughing
-said @ 10:57 p.m.