Bah

The most useless piece of advice you can give a person is "Cheer Up". Gee, thanks, if you hadn't suggested it, I never would have thought of it and might have killed myself. This tidbit usually comes from the kind of person who is afraid to feel their emotions, because they were programmed from school-age that feelings are bad, unless they are the right ones and by the right ones I mean "happy by any means" ones.

I had a friend who used to offer people a piece of gum as some sort of cure all when something was going wrong. Yeah, well not so very long ago, her father was shot in the head. I'm guessing a fucking piece of gum didn't make that one all better....

I feel a little bad for the cold way I just wrote that. She was a well intentioned girl I suppose.