Tips for cheering yourself up from 1820

Gretchen Rubin shares a letter which is written in 1820 by an English writer Sydney Smith. Even though it is nearly 200 years ago, those tips on cheering yourself up are still valid for our modern life – Well depends on your personality. There are 20 tips, here are a snippet of it:

1st. Live as well as you dare.
2nd. Go into the shower-bath with a small quantity of water at a temperature low enough to give you a slight sensation of cold, 75 or 80 degrees.
3rd. Amusing books.
4th. Short views of human life—not further than dinner or tea.
5th. Be as busy as you can.
6th. See as much as you can of those friends who respect and like you.
7th. And of those acquaintances who amuse you.
8th. Make no secret of low spirits to you friends, but talk of them freely—they are always worse for dignified concealment.
9th. Attend to the effects tea and coffee produce upon you.
10th. Compare your lot with that of other people.
11th. Don’t expect too much from human life—a sorry business at the best.
12th. Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, melancholy, sentimental people, and everything likely to excite feeling or emotion, not ending in active benevolence.
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Tips for cheering yourself up–from 1820. – [The Happiness Prodject]