How to make your life hell

«A man wants to hang a picture. You already have the nail, but you need a hammer. The neighbor has one. So, our man decides to ask the neighbor to lend him the hammer. But he is struck by a doubt: What? What if he doesn’t want to lend it to me? Now I remember that he greeted me somewhat distracted yesterday. Maybe he was in a hurry. But perhaps the rush was just a pretext, and the man harbors something against me. What can be? I haven’t done anything to him. If someone asked me to borrow a tool, I would let them have it right away. How can one refuse to do such a simple favor for another? Guys like this make your life miserable. And then, he still imagines I depend on him. Just because he has a hammer. This is the last straw. So our man rushes to the neighbor’s house, rings the doorbell, the door opens and, before the neighbor has time to say: “Good morning”, our man shouts angrily: “You keep your hammer!” .»

This is one of the funny examples given by the Austrian psychologist, sociologist and philosopher Paul Watzlawick in his funny satire “The art of making life bitter” which, although it celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, continues to retain all the freshness and relevance of the first day, which shows that The passion we feel for making ourselves unhappy remains a present and very fashionable challenge..

What are you saying? -some reader will tell me. People try to be as happy as possible.

Oh yeah? and then, How do we explain all the times that we have not known how to say no, all those times that we have insisted on maintaining a relationship that made us suffer and all those good moments that we have missed by thinking only about the future or idealizing the past?

We have all, to a greater or lesser extent, attacked our own happiness at some point. Now, like everything in life, There are different kinds of mastery in the art of making life miserable: There are some who are only small apprentices and, on the other hand, others have already achieved an official qualification. Because leading a deeply bitter life is a special art that not everyone is good at. So, if you want to be a master in this art, I advise you to follow to the letter the 7 steps that follow. They will take you straight to hell and make your life a barren and lonely desert.

7 steps to make life bitter

1. If you don’t have enough of your problems, take on those of others too.. So your life will be full of complications, it doesn’t matter if they are real or fictitious, the important thing is that you are as worried as possible. And don’t forget to give as much importance as you can to negative events, this will ensure you a good dose of unhappiness.

2. Remember: you are always right. Why are you going to listen to the advice of people who love you? You know that in life there is only one absolute truth and that is yours.

3. Any thought or situation is good for you to obsess over.. Choose anything and repeat it over and over again like a mantra, the more negative the thought that obsesses you the better, and try to take it to bed with you, this way you will have a good sleepless night, perfect for being in an unbearable mood at night. next day and thus be able to make life miserable for others.

4. Don’t even think about enjoying anything in the present, it’s better to leave everything for tomorrow

5. To keep yourself in a permanent state of frustration, there is nothing better than continually comparing yourself with others.. So focus on what you think others have, it doesn’t even have to be real, and never think positively about everything you have achieved. This nice exercise will prevent you from enjoying what you have.

6.You and only you are the only one to blame for everythingso don’t even think about forgiving yourself, and if you don’t forgive yourself, don’t even bother to forgive others.

7. Life is something very serious so avoid laughing at all costs. There are no reasons and if you find them try to repress them because adult and serious people do not laugh. If what you want is to make life miserable in your mouth, not even a small smile should appear, let alone a laugh.