Happiness is a Warm Billy West

I believe that everybody in this world deserves some happiness.

How much happiness varies person to person. Think of happiness on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being the least amount of happy and 10 being the most. For somebody who is a complete and total suck-wad, I believe that person deserves only a 1 on the happiness scale. While somebody as awesome as myself deserves more, like an 8 or a 9.

I’m not greedy or egotistical. I’m not giving myself a 10. I don’t deserve a 10. I can recognize my tiny amounts of sucking.

Meanwhile, it seems that there’s a wave of unhappiness infecting my world. Nobody around me seems all that happy. Not that these people necessarily deserve complete happiness. Let’s say these people deserve somewhere between 5 and 8 happiness. Right now, they’re not getting the happiness they deserve. They’re all around a 3 or 4. And that’s bumming me out.

I don’t like to be bummed out. I should be at all times, at least, a 7, one less than I deserve. I should never be dropped below that. This wave of unhappiness is giving me a 6. I don’t like being a 6.

Fortunately for me, I have an instant happy method. I have access to the happiest song ever, Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. that song always makes me happy. I could be driving around and that song comes on the radio (or the CD player as I keep a copy in my car at all times for just such an emergency) and I start rocking out.

At first, I start doing this little finger-pointing hand-jive sorta thing. I remind myself of Stimpy (of Ren & Stimpy fame) when he’s watching the Muddy Mudskipper Show while sitting in his litterbox. He does this finger-snapping and hand-jiving thing.

As the song progresses, I start bopping my head back and forth and a little bit side to side. Basically, I’m dancing in while sitting down. I’m sure anybody in a nearby car who happens to glance in my direction thinks I’m drunk or mildly mentally disadvantaged. Which brings me to the second mental image to pop in my head during the song, Fry (from Futurama). It’s no secret Walking on Sunshine is Fry’s favourite song.

Stimpy and Fry, a pair of animated characters, share some similarities. Both are generally blissfully ignorant as they make their way through life. Both are mentally disadvantaged. (Notice how I’m trying very hard not to say they’re retarded even though they both clearly are.) Both are voiced by the very funny Billy West.

And now the title of this post makes sense.