How do you stay positive when life regularly presents you with negative events?

I shut myself in my room if I am at home or just shove my headphones into my ears and blare music. I just sit there or walk casually as I listen to a huge compilation of personally hand-picked songs that I can lose myself in. I also love to daydream and fantasize about a world in which I'm some kind of solipsistic god. Just some random world in my head in which I can leave all the problems that happened in real life and just spend some time exploring my made-up world. Like, I get up and actually out everything like a little kid, prancing around the house and talking to made-up people. The second anyone is in my presence, though, I immediately act as if I am a normal grown up kid rather than the tiny toddler who was just acting as if he was pretty much a superhero, playing it off as if I was casually stretching my arms. It gets bad sometimes, that I find myself just whispering dialogue to myself like I'm reading off a script of the (in my mind) greatest thriller hero book you've ever read. After just wallowing in those moments, I just calm down and get over whatever upset me in the first place.

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