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Hi there! So I hear you're not feeling too wonderful. Now why is that? Nevermind, you don't need to answer me. It doesn't really matter why you're not feeling your best, just the fact that you're not feeling your best is a problem! Now then, that being the case, try to think about all problems anywhere as being a simple matter of perspective. They say every cloud has a silver lining, but I've been to clouds before and there's no silver up there, mostly just water... but I digress; the point is that any time something bad happens to you, more often than not something good can come from it. You just have to look around and take it all in; take a second to just sit back and think, because if you try to jump from thing to thing over and over and over as fast as you can, you'll just run into more problems than you can handle. I know it's kinda silly to think that I, Pinkie Pie, am telling you, not Pinkie Pie, to slow down, but even I have to sit back and watch the wheels spin every now and then before I can force myself to get up in the morning.
The biggest thing to know is that things happen. Simple idea, I know, and I'll bet you're thinking "Wull duh things happen, Pinkie." but sometimes very simple ideas can bring about different feelings. Things happen that you control, and most of those have to do directly with you. If you have an opinion on something that angers you, then you'll probably get angry and that anger comes from you. To stop this, there are steps you can take and things you can think about to stop yourself from getting angry in the first place. Some ponies call it 'bottling up your emotions' but you really can influence how you feel with a simple state of mind. Bottling your emotions up is different, that's trying to ignore them and bury them underground or something, and frankly that doesn't work. If you're in fancy company and certain ponies don't want you to scratch your nose because it's considered 'rude', doesn't that just make it that much more itchy? The same goes for being sad! If you're upset about something and you simply try to ignore or fight it, you'll just get even more sad until you can't fight it anymore. There are a couple of ways to deal with this, one of them is just simply letting it out: make yourself vulnerable to a close friend for a while, cry on their shoulder, talk with them, do what you have to do and it usually helps. Sometimes, though, you might just have to ask yourself why you're sad. What's making you upset in the first place? Is it worth being upset over? Is there anything good about it? Questions to ask yourself when all you wanna do is curl up into a little ball and go away.
Say you have a marefriend or a coltfriend and they leave you for somepony else. Sure it stings, and maybe it feels like they may have done it on purpose just to hurt you or make you angry, but maybe they're genuinely happier that way. If you truly care about them, you should be happy that they're happy, and if you are happy about that then soon you might find that sting starting to go away. You can think of a sunset as the day being killed if you want, but that's awfully depressing isn't it?. You could, instead, think of it as Celestia and Luna sharing the sky, or even like the night being born. The point is to get away from thoughts and mindsets that make you depressed when you shouldn't be. Things happen (yes yes I know I sound like a broken record!).
For the things that happen that you can't control, just about anything that doesn't have to do with your own body for instance, all it really takes is to accept that there's not much that you could have done about it. Let's take health for example, sure you can take vitamins and eat really healthy food and get vaccines and other measures to keep yourself healthy, but when push comes to shove some of the healthiest ponies anywhere can still get sick. The important thing is not to focus on those bad things if they should happen and to just accept them and deal with them; certainly not to fight until you're exhausted and waste precious time and energy dwelling on how much you tried to avoid them. If you fight to avoid something that's gonna happen anyway then you're just gonna feel like you lost, and that's frustrating. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow; find a way to make something work for you, but without forcing it one way or the other. This all goes back to your outlook, of course. Of the things you can control, and the things you can't, the easiest one that you can control is what you think and why you think it. Just stop, think, and weigh out what's really important, and nothing can ever make you sad again. Just look at me! I'm never sad. Well... except for that one time... but that's because I stopped thinking about the situation as a whole and focused on something that made me sad! Whatever happens, just remember this: don't dwell on the past, it's already gone, and if you spend too much time looking at the future you might just miss what's going on in the present. Do what you can to plan, but don't think you can force everything to work in your favor, because sooner or later everypony falls down.
There, feel better? I suppose you might not right away, but I'm sure you will. Time is just nature's bandage after all! Don't let something bad that happened define you and certainly don't let your emotions control you, because you're more important than that; don't let anypony tell you otherwise. So just take a little time to yourself, slow down, think, and realize that the world is a beautiful place, even though some ponies need glasses to see it.
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This seems out of character for Pinkie Pie, but it also seems like that's the point. Seems like this has potential. I'll withhold my rating for now, but you get a track from me.
(By the way, was this inspired by The Tao of Pooh? I would be greatly surprised if it turns out that that's not the case.)
>>130467 Actually it wasn't inspired by that, though I've seen it before (haven't ever read it though). This is really just a very condensed version of a World Philosophies course I took this semester. And yeah It's kinda out of character for Pinkie, really the only reason I made it Pinkie Pie was to make it relevant for the pony universe at all... As I said in the description it was just a personal therapy session that I ponified and dropped on here for the hell of it 
Go ahead and rate it by the way, there aren't gonna be anymore updates. (Forgot to set it to Complete)
I feel better now... Thank you, Pinkie.
Actually, I don't see it as out of character for Pinkie at all. I see it more as "Pinkie found a situation, like Applejack broke her leg and can't applebuck or something and finally decided she had to serious up for once and help her out of the dumps." This seems like exactly the sort of philosophy that Pinkie would ascribe to. And this is why Pinkie is best pony.
Five stars.
While many fics entertain me, this one made me think... I kinda share the same philosophy as this and the fact that it was well written, only made it better.
Pinkie shall always be my voice of reason and comfort
Also, I'm one of the people who needs glasses to see (thereby my name), yet to see the beauty of the world, a good eyesight isn't always necessary. To be able to see the wonders, the people, the love and kindness together in the world, isn't something you see with your eyes; it have to be seen using your heart 
Love this, favorited and 5 stars 
-Glassed
Dear Pinkie Pie, your advices are useless to me. But hold on- I never said that they're false!
I'm just saying that I already know all of this and I have already mastered employing such tactics into my own life.
But I hope that you can help a lot of people around the world with your advice.
Your faithful human, Lucefudu.
PS: How about a party next saturday?
PPS: Tell the human that wrote your thoughts that this is very good.
Dang! I'm surprised, anyone else?
*Every hand goes up*
Well.... Awesome! This was a great read! Despite the opinions of others, i really didn't see this as out of character for Pinkie. I've always imagined her, not as the hyperactive nut-job, but as just an honestly happy pony. Who happens to have a sixth sense. 
Anyway, I enjoyed this look into Pinkie's(Your?) mind. It was a welcome change from actual stories.
Keep up the good work!
-The Librarian
Pinkamina's Philosophy: Actually, the world is just a tiny speck circling another tiny speck, which itself is among tiny specks nearly identical to it. All these tiny specks orbit another tiny speck, which is just one of trillions of tiny specks like it. And all these tiny specks fill up a small froaction of this empty space that is constantly expanding faster than the speed of light, and getting faster. These are just the inner walls of a tiny speck among an infinite amount of infinite specks, all similar to one another in some way. And all these specks might just be inside an even bigger speck, which might be among an infinite amount of specks that reside inside a speck.
It might be specks all the way up and down.
There's nothing beautiful about that, considering that the life that lives on the speck is clinging between a thin rocky shell that just barely protects them from the inferno that resides within this speck, while a thin layer of gases supports life on this tiny speck. The only thing kepping the life safe from deadly radiation is a magnetic shell produced by the hellfires of the interior of this speck. So not only are the specks themselves hellish, that vast space between them is too.
Good luck trying to sleep at night when at almost every point during your life, there is a chance that you, along with everyone you care about could be killed off in a mass extinction, all because of a freak accident involving specks throughout the hell that is existence.
Image: http://chzbronies.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-so-then-i-said.jpg
>>131389 Anti-depressants come with lots of horrible side effects that I don't need because my depression isn't clinical. It's just occasional depression that most folks get from time to time and doesn't warrant the use of nasty chemicals that could end up causing 'permanent uncontrollable muscle spasms'. Save the insane treatments for people who REALLY suffer from depression, the kind I get is on a level that I can easily suck up and handle myself using basic (although admittedly silly) personal methods.
I'm not sure if you can tell if this is out of charter given that Pinkie pie is...well, Pinkie pie.
odd, everypony keeps saying that.
But i really enjoyed reading this. Reminded me that i head to continue reading about Dao/Tao and learn more of life, but that's another topic(there are a number of reasons why i swiched to tao mounths ago) I like the concept, and think it may be really helpful to many ponie
>>132301 It was just inspired by the same things that the Tao of Pooh was also inspired by which are ancient Chinese philosophies. The name seems similar, yes, but Dao/Tao (doesn't matter how you spell it really) translates to "way" in English. So it's essentially the "Way of Pooh" or "Way of Pinkie".
^_^ I don't think its very uncharacter of pinkie at all. ALL of us Random bouncy psychopaths have the innate ability to get SAGEY and use that Randomly deep and shocking knowledge to help others. Hell all of my friends know about my ability so in most of my groups I'm the Pinkie Rarity. Always happy, bouncy and random. Yet then when asked I get all badass psychological and deep thinking. Some times all you need to do is sit down, find the friend who sees the world more colorfully, and talk to them. I share most of the thought that Pinkie shared above actually. Hell I think I've dam near said it all myself to some pals. Even if people don't want to hear it, I give my thoughts.. and I like to think it helps them more.
Better to be honest and hurtful then Lie and watch them fall to pieces.
Better to tell the friend to wait until shes ready before rushing with emotion.
After all -wide smirk-
Well, im really not sure how to react.
First of all, im going to bookmark this and keep it for my every-2-week-breakdown-that-apparently-never-stops. That and for the other minor things. And yes if your wondering, i have issues. lots of em. im pretty sure we all do. Thank you for sharing. 
also yes you may haz my starz.
>>131389 possi le side effects may include: drowsiness, increased depression, or suicidal thoughts or actions. talk to your therapist to see if wellbutrin is right for you *shows nostalgi,c bittersweet video of people going about daily life*
this isn't the place for ads, though the voice over i did was fun :D
Wonderfully written. It is true that the deeper lessons are learned over and over again, and are expressed in various ways by various ponies (and some humans) over time. Perhaps it is because Pinkie has found her own balance and place within the Dharma and Buddha Nature that she is the bouncy little filly we all know and love, and it is her place within the balance that allows her to see beyond the fourth wall and split time and space to do the things she does. Otherwise how can Pinkie truly be both on stage and playing the drums at the same time?
This is really cute and sweet. I like how Pinkie always has a way of making everyone smile -- whether it's fellow ponies in the show, or the people watching the show. I've seen some people say that they think the Pinkie portrayed in here is slightly out-of-character, but I don't really think so. A very nice little pick-me-up fic you have here. I look forward to reading more from you! Thanks for the wonderful writing!
Huh, you have a rather dim view on things but, like in your opinion is how I generally view the meanings of life. But, you would think in all those glowing little identical specs of light, that life would be brighter. So I ask, you have the ability to turn on the light switch for all those little worthless specs. And make things just a bit brighter... sooo... Y DA FUK DONT U 
This definitely brightened my day. The way Pinkie Pie said everything really hit home. I've heard it all before but it never really "clicked" for me the way this did. It's kinda hard to explain. 
I'm sure in the near future, I'll think back to this and remember everything happens for a reason. I'll just have to keep my head held high and look forward to what the future brings. 
5/5
I have been having problems lately, and you have no idea how much better that made me feel!~
And the last line, "realize that the world is a beautiful place, even though some ponies need glasses to see it." made me smile, because I have glasses, and it made me think Pinkie was directing this all at me ^.^
This story made me think of this website. Made me happy too, since I was depressed. Coincidence? Or was it destiny? Hmm....
>>135856 If I spelled it the way it was really spelled I'd need a Chinese keyboard all spellings of Chinese words or characters in English are derived from their phonetic because Chinese not a phonetic based language. Also: Dao is actually closer to the way it's really pronounced as with the tongue (from someone with an actual Chinese accent) than Tao is. Otherwise both spellings have equal validity since the real spelling is in a different, non-phonetically-based language. The "Tao Te Ching" is also (commonly) spelled the "Daodejing". Totally different to our eyes, but means the same thing to our ears.
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