Finding Moments of Happiness

A Back-To-School Poem (also my new rap song):

Summer is at an end.
Tropical dreams are dead.
I don't mean to offend
The malaise of work has spread.

No holidays ahead
No postcards to send
Back to baking bread
Back to suits of poly cotton blend.

To life's priorities we attend
Though it has been said
Preferred is time with a friend
But to work we all are wed.

Metaphorically our legs are spread
From our aspirations we descend
So let's have fun instead!
'Tis happiness upon which we all depend.

~Pickleope 2012 (like people would think I plagiarized this from Pablo Neruda)

I saw this article about finding moments of happiness but every one of them inspired rage. 
And with the drudgery of work or school in full effect and no holidays on the horizon, we need these moments of happiness. So let me help you have more fun and have daily, mini-vacations no matter where you may be.

Challenge a coworker/friend to an Olympic-style gymnastics competition. First, you may be surprised by your friend's skills. Second, it's amazing how delightful it is to watch someone do something as simple as a cartwheel in the middle of the day at work. Who cares if you can't do anything athletic? You can still do a somersault or a really terrible cartwheel and everyone will get a laugh out of it.  

On the weekends, try the drunk driving go-carts/bumper cars/bumper boats. It's just good fun as long as you get taken to said location by a sober driver or cab (no one can vouch for a cabbie being sober).

This is something you'll need to work out in advance: Talk to your friend, someone you see everyday, strike an agreement where, on a random day, that friend will leave five dollars somewhere where you and only you are sure to find it. Doesn't finding money make everyone super happy?!? 

If all else fails, bake some stuff. Don't just let food sit in the break room, let people know that they can have a sample of baked goods if they stop by your cube. It's like a Costco, in that people should be super-excited to get a sample/get free food.
I guess the point is:

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Was there a point to this? Sure, work and stuff. 

I almost forgot, here are also some mini-moments:

• Armpit farts
• Pop-and-Lock like you're trying to save the community center from an evil industrialist
• Paperclip sculpturing
• If you're in a meeting or a class that's really boring, picture the speaker's nipples spontaneously erupting with rainbows
• Describe your lunch like it's something on a cooking competition show (it's a ham encrusted cheese presented on floured dough lightly brushed with a mustard reduction sauce accompanied by a fried tuberous starch side)
• Start talking like Mick Jagger and purse your lips like him too. It's impossible not to laugh doing that.