Lesson #3

Don't make a 'sad playlist' on your iTunes.
It's guaranteed to make you feel even crappier.
Maybe you innocently thought that compiling the likes of James Blunt's Goodbye My Love, Al Green's How Can You Mend A Broken Heart and Duffy's Warwick Avenue into one giant list of depression and misery was a good idea; one that would help you get over that dickhead. I'll tell you now, it's just not gonna do the trick.
Listening to James Morrison tell you that 'love is hard' won't make a blind bit of difference to your recovery rate, other than slow it down. You don't need other people to tell you how upset and crushed you're feeling, your brain's doing a pretty good job of that already, believe you me. And what's worse is that they're paid to feel hideously lonely and write about it. I'm not getting paid for feelng like shit, where's the justice in that?! I could easily write a song about regret and pain and suffering and heartache and all that crap... Though maybe I'm confusing song-writing with shed-destruction and titanic-watching.
Moral of the story is, chums, you'd feel garbage, lonely and insignificant even without the reminders from the Goo Goo Dolls. You'd cry regardless of their heartfelt lyrics and bittersweet melodies. Why give them the satisfaction!
In order to avoid feeling worse, don't make a 'sad' playlist' on your iTunes account, you're gonna feel crappy with or without it.