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Friends are an inseparable and important part of a teenager’s life. And Friendship day is the best way to celebrate this bond together. Friendship Day is the perfect time to show your friends know how much you love and need them. The day calls for celebrations and fun with your closed pals. The best way to celebrate this day is to spend the day in a way your friends and you enjoy the most. However, if you want to be creative and do something fun and unique to make this day memorable, here are some celebration ideas for Friendship Day. So go on and have a fun and fabulous Friendship Day celebration!

Sleepover party

Call all your friends at home for a sleepover party. Don’t forget to stock some soft drinks, chips, popcorns, burgers, pizzas, etc for the night. Start planning for a movie marathon from the day itself and ask everyone to make their suggestions. Every group has a signature song or two, play it to the top and groove with your friends.

No-tech party

You can organize a simple party for your pals at your home. Invite them and prepare a special menu for them. You can have various indoor and outdoor games organized as well. Just a little tweak here would be, the moment your friends come to your party, they will have to surrender their phone to you. A party without any intervention from gadgets and technology would be a memorable one. Also, ensure that all the devices that are surrendered to you are kept in a safe place and you return to them safely.

Rediscover your ‘Adda’

Most strong friendships have their foundations in schools or colleges. Visit the place where you and your friends used to spend time together in school or college and recollect old memories.

Outdoor fun

You can plan a camping trip, treks or any other adventurous activity that you and your friends enjoy. Or you can attend any other activity that is happening in your town with your friends.

Road trip

Nothing is better than having your pals with you on a serene long drive. Make sure you have sufficient fuel, tools, and a spare tyre. You can play your favourite songs, stop at multiple places to take food breaks and selfies and additionally, you can visit a friend who lives away from you all.

If you and your friends have a unique way of celebrating Friendship Day, then comment below and let the world know.

“Focus on an ocean of positives, not a puddle of negatives.” -  Kevin Ansbro

Attitude can simply be understood as our beliefs and evaluation of objects, people, situations, etc around us and how we approach them. Attitude can be positive, negative or uncertain. We all have seeds of both negativity and positivity. It’s our responsibility to nurture them and water them so that they can sprout and grow which would eventually reflect in our attitude and behavior.

Positive attitude can emerge from positive thinking and positive self-talk. Positive thinking doesn’t mean that our sufferings and hardships are irrelevant and neglected. It means that we view ourselves, others and situations with more compassion and faith and hope that this adversity will also sprout into a meaningful opportunity for learning. Positive attitude can mean crediting yourself for good that happens and making the outer forces responsible for the bad while also believing that negative situations are temporary and out of the ordinary.

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Of course, just like anything else, positive attitude and thinking are also a learned process and require hard work. Here are some tips which can help you gain a more positive and healthy attitude towards yourself and the world around you.

1. Listen to your favourite music. It’s as simple as that. Music tends to put us in a more positive and cheerful mood.

2. Replace words like “I can’t” or “I won’t” with “I can” or “I will” or “I am capable”.

3. Make a gratitude jar. Place one thing you are grateful for each week and read them all at the end of every month/year.

4. Remind yourself that the opposite of scarcity is ENOUGH, not abundance.

5. Use more positive language even when describing a negative experience or situation

6. Read positive quotes or phrases everyday

7. Find positive friends, mentors, family members for support

8. Encourage yourself to help someone everyday

9. Volunteer at an NGO somewhere you can do service work with no return expectations

10. Make a positive journey board which includes all your aspirations and accomplishments

11. Challenge yourself to be more resilient during a difficult situation. This will show the world that you still got the POWER.

12. Replace sentences like “I HAVE to go to school/college/work” with “I GET to go to school/college/work”

13. Breathe more deeply, mindfully and purposefully

14. Play Scrabble with the rule of only forming positive words

15. Write down one positive word with each letter of the alphabet

16. Appreciate every small success you make even if it’s something as small as waking up in the morning

17. Start practicing ‘the glass is half full’ phenomenon

18. Stop the self-blame cycle for anything that goes wrong or is undesired

19. Take a handful of smooth, clean stones and write positive words like ‘strength’, ‘joy’, ‘energy’, ‘enough’, or anything you relate with on them and keep one of them with you each day

20. Watch funny videos to generate more pleasant emotions

Any habit takes 21 days to form and so does a positive attitude. The more you allow yourself to experiment with positive feelings and thoughts, the higher the conditioning of your behavior and mind will be.

Remember, having a positive attitude doesn’t mean that you live in a bubble where everything is perfect. it means that you are capable of looking at a challenge in the eye and fight it effectively. Find your zone of positive endeavours and use them to become a healthier and happier person.