One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. - George Jean Nathan
Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Women, despite all their complexity, do not.