Carmen Maura
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Feb 10, 1994 · How to be miserable and really enjoy it! Carmen, a newspaper journalist, is made a widow early in the story when her husband has a massive heart attack and dies. Her life alone, is not exactly what she probably thought it was going to be.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Enrique Urbizu
- 1994-02-10
Mar 5, 2014 · Find reasons to be miserable when life gets “too good.” Prefer to play the victim role and blame others rather than take personal responsibility for their choices.
- Recognize the unhappiness you are experiencing. Research indicates that accepting your negative feelings will, paradoxically, increase your well-being.
- Offer yourself some compassion. Talking kindly to yourself could bring moments of comfort. You may not have many people in your life right now who can give you the deep empathy that you need, but you do have one person—you.
- Give yourself permission to be happy when possible. Tell yourself that you don't need to feel guilty for wanting moments of relief, happiness, and joy in your life.
- Experience pleasing and healthy distractions. Once you give yourself permission to be happy, you can better allow yourself the experience of small pleasures—a walk, a cup of coffee, a chat with a friend, a visit to the park.
- They’Re Never Thankful For anything.
- They Lead A Very Unadventurous Life.
- They Live in and Glorify The Past.
- They Do Things For Personal gain.
- They Are Afraid of Economic loss.
- They Love to Pick Fights.
- They Blame Others and Play The victim.
- They Think People’s Intentions Towards Them Are Always dishonorable.
- They Give Themselves A Negative Identity and Revel in it.
- They Get Involved in Others’ Drama.
Being grateful and thankful for anything in a highly miserable person’s life is a big no! When a person shows gratitude, they should do it from a point of view of happiness and are usually ten times more likely to be thankful for things they already have rather than the things they don’t. A miserable person avoids any expressions of gratitude at al...
Highly miserable people lead a dull, boring and unadventurous life. They ensure to have a mundane existence, with no fun, no possibility or excitement and then complain about it! When life is unadventurous and boring, they’ll start to believe that they are boring and project that upon other people. Life is predictable as far as a highly miserable p...
We’ve all done it, said things like ‘it was so much better when I was a kid’ except highly miserable people tend to live their lives stuck in the past rather than remembering it fondly and moving on. They’ll talk about what has happened, what they have done and what it was like back then, saying that life has only gone downhill since. When a highly...
Being self-centered and only doing things for personal gain is an extreme habit of a highly miserable person. Life is about having and gaining more and getting it no matter how they get it, even at the expense of others. They’ll surround themselves with like-minded people and even take on ‘professions’ that involve criminal activities. They’ll have...
Fear is a good habit to have if you want to be a highly miserable person. Fear keep miserable people from doing a job they absolutely hate; it makes them work long unbearable hours working for a company that doesn’t care about its employees. They are greedy and stingy with money, generosity isn’t even in their vocabulary; and if it is, there is per...
Every now and again, a highly miserable person often picks a fight out of the blue with someone close to them. They usually pick a fight about something absurd and completely unrelated to their current situation. Secondly, they expect that person to respond with kindness and sympathy and if they don’t, they’ll be quick to point it out. If however t...
Highly miserable people are brilliant at blaming their parents, because, after all, they were the ones who brought them to this world and shaped who they were. Typically, they’ll also blame the bully who bullied them as a kid, a teacher who didn’t like them or a friend who never wanted to do what they wanted to do. They simply can’t let go of the i...
They’ll take any remark, comment or opinion the wrong way, believing that whoever gave it is trying to insult, belittle or put them down. They believe that humiliation is at the forefront of most people’s intentions of which will make a highly miserable person distrustful, resentful and always on the defense. Miserable people expect the very worst ...
Highly miserable people let their perceived emotional problem absorbs their very core. For example, if they suffered from anxiety, depression, grief of some sort, they’d define them as a person. They also try to make everyone know exactly what’s wrong with them. They make this the focus of their life, talking about it constantly, and bringing it up...
They are the center point of all the drama in their lives and others’. This includes family and community dramas. They want to be the person that people will turn to, to share their miserableness with and to help carry the drama to new levels; exaggerating situations and consoling others with their own sorry stories about how life has dealt them a ...
- Be afraid, be very afraid, of economic loss. In hard economic times, many people are afraid of losing their jobs or savings. The art of messing up your life consists of indulging these fears, even when there’s little risk that you’ll actually suffer such losses.
- Practice sustained boredom. Cultivate the feeling that everything is predictable, that life holds no excitement, no possibility for adventure, that an inherently fascinating person like yourself has been deposited into a completely tedious and pointless life through no fault of your own.
- Give yourself a negative identity. Allow a perceived emotional problem to absorb all other aspects of your self-identification. If you feel depressed, become a Depressed Person; if you suffer from social anxiety or a phobia, assume the identity of a Phobic Person or a Person with Anxiety Disorder.
- Pick fights. This is an excellent way of ruining a relationship with a romantic partner. Once in a while, unpredictably, pick a fight or have a crying spell over something trivial and make unwarranted accusations.
Jun 6, 1994 · Film. Reviews. Jun 6, 1994 12:00am PT. How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It. In this Spanish comedy, the fabulously gifted Carmen Maura plays a role similar to her hilarious turn in...
Aug 28, 2017 · 1. Recognize the unhappiness you are experiencing. Research indicates that accepting your negative feelings will, paradoxically, increase your well-being. Accepting negative feelings...
