It is a known fact that about your own emotional state, you CAN influence your mood by putting your face into the appropriate expression. Want to be happy? Smile. Even if it feels fake. Want to be calm? Keep a straight face. Want to be angry or sad? (why??): You can put yourself in those moods too with your facial expression.
(Does not work when your external environment overrides your choice of mood)
They say more suicides happen when people are on the upswing. They have no energy when they’re down. The idea is to keep yourself down so you don’t go on an upswing because it’s safer that way.
Happiness is a choice. Most people choose to ignore the happiness that is in their lives, and look to what they perceive to be the happiness in other peoples lives.
AGAIN?!? PIGGY. YOU KNOW THIS ONE: eat cheese, watch television and play RELAXING games! (First Person Shooters are NOT relaxing.) I know you hate it, but I suggest some exercise too. Now that I exercise regularly, I CRUSHED my “chronic fatigue” from my TBI!!!
Reading the newspaper can be depressing, but I notice that when reading a funny comic a chuckle and a smile helps me feel happy, at least for a minute or so.
I’m officially not allowed to be happy by decree from The Universe. Any time I’ve ever started to get happy/have a good thing happen to me something bad happens within a week. If I won the lottery, the world would end.
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
All you’ll get is frustration.
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
I wish you the best Pig!
BasilBruce over 1 year ago
Sounds like Pig wants to strap on the Happy Helmet.
Erse IS better over 1 year ago
It is a known fact that about your own emotional state, you CAN influence your mood by putting your face into the appropriate expression. Want to be happy? Smile. Even if it feels fake. Want to be calm? Keep a straight face. Want to be angry or sad? (why??): You can put yourself in those moods too with your facial expression.
(Does not work when your external environment overrides your choice of mood)
Alexander the Good Enough over 1 year ago
Were it not for sad, one would never know happy…
MichaelAxelFleming over 1 year ago
Joy joy
DennisinSeattle Premium Member over 1 year ago
It’s a good effort, Pig! We all want you to be happy.
blunebottle over 1 year ago
Pig, go to the refrigerator. The cheese is calling you.
C over 1 year ago
Manifest insanity
Natarose over 1 year ago
me too, pig
distortion over 1 year ago
Adopt an attitude of gratitude.
Ermine Notyours over 1 year ago
They say more suicides happen when people are on the upswing. They have no energy when they’re down. The idea is to keep yourself down so you don’t go on an upswing because it’s safer that way.
nosirrom over 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZpgnYhzdkI
MayCauseBurns over 1 year ago
“What good is happiness, if it’s just a state of mind?” Jim White, “Handcuffed to a Fence in Mississippi”
iggyman over 1 year ago
“I knew she could make me happy,happy,HAPPY! " (The Rain, the Park, and Other Things, the Cowsills)!
monya_43 over 1 year ago
The opposite can be true if you tell yourself that you are unhappy, disappointed, sad and angry about it.
Goat from PBS over 1 year ago
Then go out and be happy, Pig. Go for it.
erick.robinson over 1 year ago
watch the vid… you CAN’T watch it and not feel up-beat afterwards
e.groves over 1 year ago
It’s been a long time since I’ve been happy, but I am glad quite often.
Croc Holliday over 1 year ago
Hope is not a strategy.
F-Flash over 1 year ago
If you’re Happy, aren’t you supposed to clap your hands?
Ellis97 over 1 year ago
Happy happy joy joy! Happy happy joy joy!
PEANUTS-expert over 1 year ago
true happiness lies within
wongo over 1 year ago
Happiness is overrated. I prefer dread, conflict and loneliness. That way no disappointments!
e.groves over 1 year ago
“If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife.”
MichiganMitten over 1 year ago
Affirmations. Supposed to have some effect, oddly enough. Not sure I believe it but interesting to think about.
royq27 over 1 year ago
This strip makes me all happy…
YippiKiAyMofo over 1 year ago
No, but you can make it happen through action.
DanMoran1 over 1 year ago
Pig should be happy; he’s not all covered in ink as he usually is when he’s writing.
Cameron1988 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Don’t worry, be happy
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Pig doesn’t get he can make his own happiness!
The Brooklyn Accent over 1 year ago
But happiness is a warm puppy.
David_the_CAD over 1 year ago
Happiness is a choice. Most people choose to ignore the happiness that is in their lives, and look to what they perceive to be the happiness in other peoples lives.
see today’s BC as an example.
michael3114 over 1 year ago
Happiness is often proportional to how clueless you are to things going on in the world.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
You think you are happy and you are happy, that’s what you’re happy for.
rwh2 over 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGwJMB72DDY
T... over 1 year ago
No wonder Pig is not happy, there is no female in the gang…
christelisbetty over 1 year ago
Get a warm puppy, Pig.
dlaemmerhirt999 over 1 year ago
AGAIN?!? PIGGY. YOU KNOW THIS ONE: eat cheese, watch television and play RELAXING games! (First Person Shooters are NOT relaxing.) I know you hate it, but I suggest some exercise too. Now that I exercise regularly, I CRUSHED my “chronic fatigue” from my TBI!!!
paulscon over 1 year ago
Reading the newspaper can be depressing, but I notice that when reading a funny comic a chuckle and a smile helps me feel happy, at least for a minute or so.
patrickab7 over 1 year ago
Worth a try.
Eric S over 1 year ago
" if’n you ain’t the granpappy of all liars! "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVM1nUmDHHc
Upton O'Goode over 1 year ago
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be ~ Abraham Lincoln
zeexenon over 1 year ago
Well, THAT IS what the Psychobabbles say.
willie_mctell over 1 year ago
A not too recent fad. Big on afternoon talk shows.
KEA over 1 year ago
It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got. (Sheryl Crow)
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 1 year ago
I believe Scott Adams did this when he was starting ‘Dilbert’.
Buoy over 1 year ago
SERENITY NOW!!!
smartman over 1 year ago
I’m officially not allowed to be happy by decree from The Universe. Any time I’ve ever started to get happy/have a good thing happen to me something bad happens within a week. If I won the lottery, the world would end.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 1 year ago
That’s me!
Sisyphos over 1 year ago
Sorry, Pig; doesn’t work that way. Nice, big script, though….
paullp Premium Member over 1 year ago
Pig is making himself more miserable by way of his desperate attempt to be happy.
Rayborg over 1 year ago
“Let me get the stay put hat and raincoat!”
Laurie Stoker Premium Member over 1 year ago
Dream on, Pig.