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// Step Two: Create A Coping Method 
// Story: How to Forget Happiness 
// by LyraAlluse 
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Step Two: Create A Coping Method


In the fourth grade, think of a traumatic event in your current life to make ponies stop asking questions. Especially that overly happy filly Lemon Hearts who just won’t leave you alone. Tell everypony that your pet hamster died and you never got over it. Tell them that a psychic told you that your pet hamster was the reincarnation of your diseased Grandpa, Star Watcher. Pretend like this event was the catalyst for all future misfortunes in your life. Convince everypony that this has been eating away at your conscience for years. Convince yourself that it is the reason why you feel insecure when ponies look at you the way they do. Spend hours burying your snout in stacks of books you’ve piled at the back of the classroom. Read these books by yourself every day so the other ponies will see you are busy reading and leave you alone.