How to make the world a better place
by Amanda Prouten
From planting flowers and buying food for strangers to giving a boyf a surprise bj, there are 101 gajillion ways to be a happy emo and make this world a better place. Amanda Prouten (the big tease) is going to give you 12 of them.
1) Give someone who's homeless your sleeping bag. Give it with grace and apology for not having more. If you have more give it - maybe that sandwich you were saving for your journey home or your favourite bag of crisps. Money's also good but some say a little vulgar - after all, who ever brought drugs with money! Pah!
2) Send an anonymous present to someone you don't particularly care for but who may be a bit sad and lonely. Cover your tracks, don't let the florist or amazon let your secret out. If the person has a partner, DO NOT send them anonymous flowers or gifts or it could cause a rift. Better address them to their cat or dog.
3) Reduce your co2 emissions. Put on enough weight to make your own portable insulation against the cold. Don't bother with central heating. Snigger when your skinny friends' teeth chatter. Wear a hoodie to bed - it's cheaper, more eco friendly and way more cooler than putting the heating on.
4) Smile at everyone you see (except for after dark - that's just dammned dangerous or drunken behaviour!). Do a smiling experiment for a week wherby you gently smile and say hello to everyone in your path. If they smile back they are nice people hiding behind conformity, if they chat pleasantly and easily they are just like you, if they scowl they're not worth bothering about and if they follow you onto the bus/train/tram/plane out of the country/ they are probably a potential stalker and best given the slip. Or they may be your future partner. Remember Gary Numan? (He married his stalker - Mooky Eds xxx )
5) Show your boyf you really care. Your relationship may have got a a bit jaded in the sex department. But surprise him with a raunchy blow job on a Monday morning before work/college. The ultimate self sacrifice when you need that extra time for a lie-in! C'mon 5 minutes isn't gonna kill you and you can reap all sorts or rewards later...
6) Plants some bulbs or seeds in a place where jaded, bored people will see them and it will light up their lives. Take little stash bags to public gardens or horticultural centres in autumn, collect the seeds and sprinkle liberally over traffic islands, banks and horticulturally derelict areas.
7) Likewise do the same for an old or disabled person in your neighbourhood who has a neglected garden. Find a little area where you can offer to do some weeding for nothing, then plant loads of delights to cheer them up in the spring or summertime!
8) Compliment people. Take a day to casually compliment everyone you meet on something that's great about them. Bump into people on purpose just so you can say, 'Oh sorry. Hey I love your umbrella, its so cool' or if it's a hot man, 'For a moment I thought you were my husband" and when he asks you if you're married you reply, 'no, not yet'. Whoa, heavy cheese! Bad chat-up line alert - but we know you mookychicks can pull it off!
9) If you really MUST go on a stupid diet, make sure its for a worthy cause, not some daft size zero death wish. Pledge to give your puddings to someone more needy. Spend all your choccy allowance on a 3rd world charidee or to a soup kitchen for the homeless.
10) Give all your old stuff to freecycle.org. Lighten your load and renounce your material possessions by offloading it onto someone who might actually want all your old crap. Have a good sort out and find a bunch of freecyclers in your area. If there isn't one, start one.
11) Next time you go to a bar or café, buy a bag of crisps or nuts for every table in the room. Pay the person behind the bar and ask them to distribute them, saying they are from an anonymous benefactor. If your budget allows, stretch to a bowl of chunky chips for each table.
12) Be nice to yourself. When you wake up each day look in the mirror and tell yourself how absolutely wonderful and mooky you are. List all your fabulous qualities that are unique to you and count your blessings. Then count all your friends' blessings for knowing such a benific, cool and groovy goddess such as yourself!
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