What were your favorite television shows that made you feel happy everyday and compare that to now

[idelttoilfsadness21]

This exercise is to remind you of how you used to feel and where you are now, almost like reminiscing the past, since the past holds a memory you can still engage in to work on, while the present, you have no idea where you'll go, but if you can, give yourself this growth to try and focus on going back there on tough times.

For me, it was always One Piece, SVFOE, Fairly Odd Parents, Barbie, Monster High, and Lab Rats

Compared to now, I struggle watching One Piece and have stuck on eps 600 for the past four years now since I last got in touch with that and can't care anymore, SVFOE paused and finished it, but the ending made me not sad as it once did, Fairly Odd Parents will always make me happy, but it doesn't bring the same feelings anymore especially since I've lost touch and the themes are more sadder now, Barbie excited me and it will always excite me, Monster High makes me proud I enjoyed a past to my girlhood and I might but I'm not sure again, and Lab Rats made me feel so happy inside but I never finished it.

You don't have to share or engage with what you'll do now, just share what about these excited you originally and what makes you struggle... it seems from me engaging more into this practice, I was able to illustrate my point on what I found to be the cause of what truly give me a sense of happiness...

Hopes this helps someone!

 

[human909]

The big bang theory, it still makes me a little bit happy but not so much as it used too.

 

[EternalShore]

Cardcaptor Sakura always made me happy~ :) I like shows focused around elementary school as that's when my life was most enjoyable~ :) I never finished it tho as I wanted to keep it around for when I was uber depressed to make me happier~ which tbf, I kinda am now! xDDD But I still haven't finished it! >_<

 

[Forever Sleep]

Frasier, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Keeping up Appearances, As Time Goes By, Game of Thrones, a whole lot of crime dramas: Inspector Morse, Jonathan Creek, Midsomer Murders, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Pie in the Sky. Plus, film series too like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. I'm sure there are others I've missed...

I often put any of them on in the background while I work. They give me a comforting and nostalgic reassurance. I'm not sure I've actually lost my appreciation for them. Obviously, it's not the same as seeing something for the first time and loving all the twists and turns but, there's also something nice about returning to familiar things. It's nice when I've left it long enough to forget how good a series is.