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Here is my script, however I will let my classmates read it and comment on it, so that I can improve it. Thank you those who have commented! :)

You feeling down today? Fight with friends or got a bad grade in the math test? Don’t you just hate feeling always upset and disappointed? Then it is time you turn on your loudspeakers and listen to me. Right.

First of all I would like to mention that I am not a professional psychologist or anything like that; I am just a typical 17 year old teenager who is just living her life. However, I wanted to share my feelings and experiences with you guys about how to ‘bounce back’ whenever you feel bad. I should mention that feeling good and happy is the result of a long-term progress and not something that can happen in a short period of time. I believe that happiness comes within yourself and how your attitude is towards life.

Of course there are small things that can make us happy, for example new skater or your crush asked you on date; however do you really think the happiness you are feeling right now will last long? Imagine you are having great time with your bf/gf, but suddenly one day they decided to leave you. It will hurt you a lot and you will be feeling down etc. Yeah, it is ok to feel the emotions you are feeling at that time, however there are always limits. You don’t want to spend your whole life with such an attitude, don’t you?

You might have not realized or you did; but don’t you agree with me that whenever you feel a certain emotion, you always affect your surrounding with your mood? For example, I recently started feeling as if no one ever would understand me and that I am such a lonely person. Every day I was in such a bad mood, very aggressive, and even my classmates started not talking to me since I was quite being mean them (such as responding in mocking way or something like that). Then I got my test results back and I got a really bad grade… the whole thing just started annoying me, so I began to prefer to be alone. But my mom just won’t let me have time for myself; instead she would tell me I should study, since I got a really bad grade. Then I started a fight with her and all that…it even more annoyed that now I was pushing off the closest people in my life away from myself. It felt like the whole world was collapsing down, because I could not do things right.

And the one thing really helped me was when I talked to a close friend about the whole thing. It really gave me such warmth whenever she encouraged me, told me not to give up and that the emotions I was feeling were just for a short period of time. Through her nice words, I could finally realize that it was up to me to decide whether I am going to go on with life with optimism or just end up being lonely and upset in this wide world. So, I started thinking that those factors are really important:

1. Being best friends with yourself

· Accepting who you are

· At the very end, you are the one who is going to be there for you

· Start seeing the positive things in you (write the characteristics, skills etc you like about yourself and write them down on different colorful paper and stick it everywhere where you can see it)

· Tell yourself encouraging words (e.g. you can do it! You are amazing!)

· Don’t care what other people think of you

· Don’t compare yourself to others

· Do things that you enjoy doing (drawing, listening to music etc)

· Find your own style

· Dream list

· Develop your skills

2. Optimism

· Thinking positive is hard, but if you can learn it then it is going to be very easy for you to push away those bad feelings

· See the good things in situations

· Good thoughts

3. Act kind and forgiving

· Helping others is a great action of anyone. Helping those who needs one is going to make that person AND you happy.

4. Smile

· Just a smile at others or at yourself can make your day ;)

5. Love your family

· These people seem to be very annoying, however remember that they are the most trustworthy people in this world. Respect them, admire and love them.

6. You are not alone

· This thought makes some people even worse and upset. But hey. Why don’t you just listen to the voice within yourself? Why don’t you just travel inside your mind? Then you will truly realize you actually aren’t alone at all ;)

These were things that I developed more and to be honest it really works for me. Of course, I sometimes have bad days but I am able to get rid of them very easily since I started following those factors listed above. I always tell myself encouraging words and it is very cool to see that when you start accepting yourself as who you are, you start feeling very comfortable with yourself and you feel as if you can do anything! I hope you at least try to follow some of these factors and I really wish you all the best in the future! Believe in yourself and remember:

Nothing is impossible!