Self-care tool box

I, like everyone else, have gone through periods of melancholy and have learned ways to deal with it.  Yet when that sadness hits me, it is as if it is the first time and I don't know how to handle it.  I have decided I need a special self-care tool box.  A box that hold the tools needed to drive sadness away and help connect me to myself once again.

Three things help me better than all other home remedies to conquer that occasional sadness; laughter, music and movement.  So I headed to Dave's Movies to rent the tools needed to loosen the grip sadness had on me.  I rented The Great Race and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.  First I watched the classic comedy, The Great Race.  If the comic team of Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk don't wipe your blues away and put on a happy face, then nothing well.  After that I put the musical in my DVD player.  Laughter may be the best medicine but what Doctor Lou prescribes as the fastest acting medicine is a dose of song and dance.  Music makes me feel good all over.  It has a way of reaching the core of my very being and grabs my heart.  Before long I had my eyes closed and I was swinging and swaying all around my living room.  This wonderful musical supplied two of the three tools needed to sweep my blues away.

I guess I should have rented Singing In the Rain.  That musical has all three tools in it.  I wouldn't have had to sit through two movies to get rid of the blues.  Actually I enjoyed Seven Brides for Seven Brothers so much I watched it twice.  Next time I am out where I can purchase DVDs I am going to look for Singing in the Rain to put in my Self-Care tool box.  Hopefully I won't need it for a while but it never hurts to be prepared.