Disclaimer: I am not a happy girl. Never has been nor will I ever be. There, I said it. Speak the truth and the truth shall set you free. I know myself and I am perfectly fine being who I am. Phew! Now that that is out of the way, I don't have to pretend to be something I am not. Let me explain why I make such a strong and seemingly negative statement about myself. In my experience, most "happy people" behave in mean-spirited ways and go around throwing out labels such as happy, negative, positive, pessimist and optimist. I swear, I am going to find a way to replace such seemingly harmless yet demeaning and derogatory terms for describing people. Like Margaret Thatcher once said: Power is like being a lady, if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. So if you have to act like you are happy, positive or optimistic, are you really? My philosophy is that people should never let them selves look good or feel better at the expense of another. Yo...