Spin - I tend to use the word in a similar way to "slant" or "approach", to suggest the angle or pitch given in a narrative or report.
I think "spin" is an important aspect of being happy. For instance, it is a rather overcast day here now and I don't want that. That nature and winds and clouds and whatnot have collaborated to result in my having to live under overcast - or is it "over undercast" - irritates me. I don't want to be irritated. So, investigate, cogitate, invent, poeticize, narrate, fancify, disfancify! Come up with a different slant. Put some helpful, more satisfying spin on the current state.
That is what my wife tries to do for me when she finds I am in a depressed state. That is what Sigmund Freud tried to do for some of his patients. Exploring different compositions and their emotional effects is what Cyrano de Bergerac did for the gentleman who seemed to be staring at his nose:
"You might have said at least a hundred things
By varying the tone. . .like this, suppose,. . .
Aggressive: 'Sir, if I had such a nose
I'd amputate it!' Friendly: 'When you sup
It must annoy you, dipping in your cup;
You need a drinking-bowl of special shape!'
Descriptive: ''Tis a rock!. . .a peak!. . .a cape!
--A cape, forsooth! 'Tis a peninsular!'
Curious: 'How serves that oblong capsular?
For scissor-sheath? Or pot to hold your ink?'
Gracious: 'You love the little birds, I think?
I see you've managed with a fond research
To find their tiny claws a roomy perch!'
Truculent: 'When you smoke your pipe. . .suppose
That the tobacco-smoke spouts from your nose--
Do not the neighbors, as the fumes rise higher,
Cry terror-struck: "The chimney is afire"?'
Considerate: 'Take care,. . .your head bowed low
By such a weight. . .lest head o'er heels you go!'
Tender: 'Pray get a small umbrella made,
Lest its bright color in the sun should fade!'
Pedantic: 'That beast Aristophanes
Names Hippocamelelephantoles
Must have possessed just such a solid lump
Of flesh and bone, beneath his forehead's bump!'
Cavalier: 'The last fashion, friend, that hook?
To hang your hat on? 'Tis a useful crook!'
Emphatic: 'No wind, O majestic nose,
Can give THEE cold!--save when the mistral blows!'
Dramatic: 'When it bleeds, what a Red Sea!'
Admiring: 'Sign for a perfumery!'
Lyric: 'Is this a conch?. . .a Triton you?'
Simple: 'When is the monument on view?'
Rustic: 'That thing a nose? Marry-come-up!
'Tis a dwarf pumpkin, or a prize turnip!'
Military: 'Point against cavalry!'
Practical: 'Put it in a lottery!
Assuredly 'twould be the biggest prize!'
Or. . .parodying Pyramus' sighs. . .
'Behold the nose that mars the harmony
Of its master's phiz! blushing its treachery!'
--Such, my dear sir, is what you might have said,"
Once we internally examine each of these possible spins, we may find that we can invest in that slant and possibly use it to feel more satisfied with the issue, whatever it is.
