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Yesterday a wonderful friend at work said, in a positive sense: "Kim, you're such a hippie". There was some conniption over some girl who got the wrong job position somewhere, and I felt energy was placed on unnecessary stuff.
They said: I cannot believe she got that job, it's awful!
I said: Why waste your energy on her then? Put it on stuff you like instead.

And then I was crowned the person with the best attitude, for my hippie approach, when I was just sitting on my chair wishing that way of thinking would be something natural, and not an exception. I couldn't help but thinking about Sweden, it's much too usual from what I've unfortunately experienced when someone's exceptionally happy or has a smile on their face a little bit too wide than socially normal, people ask what happened. Why does something need to happen in order for people to be happy? I have encountered few, if even that, life lovers. People that genuinely love life, every day. You don't have to be outrageously happy every day, but when something bad happens recognize that life is great overall, and that this is just a slight set-back that will be irrelevant in 5 minutes. Don't ever spend more than 5 minutes on something randomly bad that just happened. After 5minutes you've had time to freak out, calm down, find a "solution" and gotten back on your positive way of thinking. All else is unnecessary waste of your own energy. And besides that, you know what?

That's what I generally live by, and will generally stick to for the rest of my life. Everyday, when my facebook-feed is filled with negativity, I click myself out of there, smile and put some 1Euro honey in my 1Euro tea and acknowledge how generally fucking wonderful life is, every single day. Even when it rains.