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Dear reader,
I hope you are in a really bad mood today. Do you know why? Because I believe bad moods are good for you. We are often told to focus on the positive things in life and try to leave behind all the negative. But isn't that a waste of energy? We put so much power in our negative feelings. Anger, envy, jealousy, bitterness... they are all packed full of force that can be released and enjoyed. This is what this book is for.
I hope you'll enjoy listing the things and people you hate the most and bravely looking back into your own regrets. It might be liberating, it might be empowering, it might be just a pastime, a bit like a crossword puzzle - but it might also be very funny. Personally, I've noticed that focusing on the negative often makes me laugh - sometimes at myself.
I was surprised at first when it turned out that this book raised interest in many other countries besides my native Finland. Now I understand that if anything is universal, it has to be bad mood. I'm afraid I don't know very much about Taiwan, but I'm pretty sure there is a lot of bad mood to be enjoyed in your country too. Thank you for choosing The Little Book of Bad Moods. I wish you a very good bad mood!
Yours
Lotta Sonninen
親愛的讀者：
我希望你今天心情真的很糟。你知道為什麼嗎？因為我相信壞心情對你來說是好的。通常別人會告訴我們，要聚焦於生活中的正面事物之上，還要設法把所有負面事物拋諸腦後。不過那樣不是很浪費精力嗎？我們在自己的負面感受中置入了莫大的力量啊。憤怒、羨慕、嫉妒、怨恨??它們全都滿載著可以被釋放、被享受的飽滿力道。本書就是為此而生。
我希望你會樂於列出你最討厭的人事物，並且勇敢地回顧你自己悔恨的事。這樣可能很有解放效果、可能讓人充滿力量、可能只是個消遣，有點像是填字遊戲——但這樣也可能非常有趣。就我個人而言，我已經注意到聚焦於負面事物通常會讓我笑出來——有時候是笑我自己。
起初我很驚訝，因為在我的家鄉芬蘭以外的許多其他國家都對這本書很有興趣。現在我理解到如果有任何事情算是世界通行的，肯定就是壞心情了。恐怕我對臺灣所知不多，但我相當確定，在你的國家裡也有很多可以享用的壞心情。感謝你選擇《祝你有糟糕的一天》。祝你有非常好的壞心情！
你的
洛塔．索妮南
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