Keep busy...

Dear son,

Doing good things for others is a way of doing something good for yourself. It can be very rewarding if you do it selflessly, that is, not expecting a reward. All I did today was things for other people: my mother, your mother, your mother's mother, your uncle, and you. And you know what? I feel great, I really do. Remember that exercise is good for stress. Sleep is good for overall health. And doing something for someone else simply because it's a nice thing to do is great for lifting your mood. So is listening to music you love, by the way. Also, I like building things, like putting furniture together. Taking things apart is great, too. That way you learn how things work and at the same time have the visceral satisfaction of destroying something, which let us admit, the desire to break, smash, burn lurks in the hearts of all boys everywhere. But at the very least keeping busy does make you feel better.

Love,
Dad