Dear Reader,
Alright here’s the thing: if you’ve been keeping up with me, you’ll know that I am a freshman in college. You’ll also know that college is proving to be hard, despite how much I tried to prepare myself. And you’ll know that because I write for clarity and insight and just as a way for my thoughts to explode and be free, I’ve been posting some pretty sad entries–often at night.
So then I decided I would write happy posts for a while. I can choose to be happy and look at the good things in life. After all, there is so much I have to be thankful and happy about.
So that’s what I’m going to do.
Instead of sit here on this gloomy day, ranting about how I’m lazy and unaccomplished and stupid, I’m not going to focus on myself. I’m going to focus on this beautiful world filled with inspiring people and lovely feelings.
Here’s What Makes Me Happy:
- new music
- sunrises
- good hair days
- inspiration kicks
- getting mail
- hand-written letters
- laughing out loud at TV shows at tumblr posts
- laughing until it hurts
- laughing until you cry
- waking up in the middle of a good dream, realizing you have more time to sleep, and getting to finish it
- sitting in a clean room
- boy bands
- payday
- compliments
- unexpected rhyming
- when your handwriting looks really good
- eye candy
- cancelled classes
- finding the perfect gift
- making someone laugh
- retail therapy
- knitting
- dreaming the impossible
- comments on a post
- yogurt parfaits
- cute mugs
- puppies & babies & other tiny creatures
- maps
- talking back and forth with a friend: “remember when”
- the full moon
- breathing in the fresh night air
- texts that say “did you make it back okay?”
- random acts of kindness
- clothes straight from the dryer
- laughing at yourself
- getting flowers and displaying them in your room
- being proud of something you’ve created
- supportive friends
- libraries
- beautiful pictures (future post coming soon)
- crushing on someone
- late night talks
- rain showers and thunderstorms
- seeing a cop car on their own driveway surrounded in children’s chalk drawings
- blanket forts
- oversized sweatshirts
- pick-up lines
- birthdays
- trying not to laugh in a silent room
- the promise of a new day
Feel free to share some of your favorite things in the comments or let me know if you make your own happy list! I always find it handy to have just a few of my favorite things in a list like this on hands at all time. It’s so simple to create and sometimes the impact it can have is unexpectedly huge.
Sincerely,
Sammy
PS: Montana – Youth Lagoon Around 3 minutes in is where I fell in love with this song.
SINCERELY, SAMMY 