Everyone knows, or should know, that life isn’t necessarily a pleasure cruise all the time. We all have issues, whether few, several, or many. There are things we may or may not get over, and things we get over in time, but which still remain there, because they changed us and our lives in one or more ways. After all, as the joke goes, life can be seen as the most widely spread fatal STD
However, I don’t believe life is merely a pathway to death that has lots of obstacles along the way. We are here and aware of it. There are good things in the lives most of us lead – from small (such as an activity one mildly enjoys) to big (such as having that which means the very most to oneself). The things we are truly grateful for are often varied and personalized. I would like to make a list of those I can think of now. I’ve done this before, but it’s a positive and pleasant activity, and I’m not only doing it for myself. I won’t go into details about that, but I hope this could inspire others, too.The following list contains things that I have in my life now, or did at some point, which make me happy (in no particular order).
1. Listing happy memories, thoughts, and feelings;
2. Realizing what I was upset about is actually a nice thing, or has turned out nicely;
3. Having a family and a nice home;
4. My best friend, his friendship, trust, and art;
5. Original art of any kind;
6. Having an idea for a whole poem that seems to be coherent and original;
7. Noticing things I like about myself;
8. Loving and being loved;
9. Being told I’m loved;
10. Saying “I love you” and meaning it;
11. Making people happy;
12. Helping others;
13. Giving gifts;
14. Making things;
15. Paying and receiving sincere compliments;
16. Receiving awards;
17. Publishing stuff;
18. Nice memories;
19. Bad memories to appreciate my happiness more;
20. Liking myself and other people in spite of shortcomings;
21. Being loved/liked/accepted in spite of my shortcomings;
22. Funny comics;
23. Jokes;
24. Having hysterical fits of laughter, even for no reason;
25. Sacrifices made out of love;
26. Looking in the mirror and liking what I see;
27. Learning nice things;
28. Interesting or warm conversations;
29. the Internet;
30. Webcams, microphones, and telephones;
31. Saying or being said to something really sweet out of the blue;
32. Encouragements;
33. The people I get along with well;
34. Seeing a friend cares for me enough to keep all my 7 messenger IDs in her list;
35. Trusting dear ones;
36. Making confessions and being made confessions to;
37. Having to see the good part of life to cheer up a friend when I’m depressed;
38. Painkillers;
39. Seeing that someone very dear to me who’s been ignoring me for a lot of time commented positively on my poem and added me to his favorites;
40. Surprising people I don’t talk to often by remembering their birthdays;
41. Daydreaming;
42. Favorite TV shows;
43. Finding things that mean much to me while tidying my room;
44. Being able to get over a severe sleeping issue just because my friend showed me he cared;
45. Intimacy;
46. Sending friends links to stuff I think they’ll like;
47. Receiving gifts;
48. Having my secret love do nice things for me on Valentine’s Day though we weren’t in a relationship;
49. That type of confusion that makes me think my high expectations may come true;
50. Stuffed hearts and stuffed toys to hug when I feel down;
51. Ceaca
;52. Pictures of moments that meant a lot;
53. Finally finding a site that seems to have every feature I want;
54. Having some of my favorite poets ever enjoy and comment on my poems;
55. Having art dedicated to me;
56. Learning I inspired someone somehow in their life;
57. People who have made great differences in my life;
58. High school;
59. Apparent telepathy;
60. Playing my favorite games with my favorite people;
61. Being told by a close friend that I made him happy;
62. Emoticons, particularly the hug, kiss, and heart;
63. Returning from a hostile, very unpleasant environment, to people who care and whose company I enjoy;
64. Being told someone who hurt me badly was wrong to do so and that I deserve more;
65. Dark humor that makes me laugh and feel funny when I’m not well;
66. Finding large sums of money I lost in random places;
67. Talking to someone and saying the exact same thing at the exact same time;
68. Writing poetry;
69. Singing;
70. Successfully making a song;
71. Lazy days;
72. Good food and drinks;
73. Vegetarianism and vegetarians;
74. Having someone not allow me to give up on what I can and like to do just because I’m depressed for the moment;
75. Feeling loved so much there’s no need to hear it said, and trying to make someone feel the same;
76. Teachers’ strike;
77. Swimming;
78. Editing poetry written in a very dark period of my life while listening to music dedicated to me by a friend, realizing that I am way happier than I used to be and being satisfied with the result of editing the said poems;
79. Having my family and best friend make the day I thought would be one of the worst in my life, one of the best;
80. Exceeding expectations in various ways;
81. Surprising and being surprised (pleasantly!);
82. Some people’s unbelievable patience with me;
83. Feeling at peace with myself (like now
;84. Writing an optimistic, inspirational poem while sad, just to make myself happy again;
85. Writing poems to help inspire during hard times an old friend I no longer talk to;
86. Writing birthday poems or just-because poems telling someone they’re loved and appreciated;
87. Keeping the secret before giving gifts to dear ones for birthdays or Christmas;
88. Realizing it was indeed childish to believe I would burn in hell for stealing a couple toys as a kid;
89. Friendly honest feedback on work I’m really interested in;
90. Seeing the good in the bad;
91. Being silly;
92. Spare time and using it well;
93. Reading lots of stuff I’m not one bit interested in, just to help a friend;
94. A chilly thunderstorm after months of unbelievable heat;
95. The sea;
96. Learning that someone I considered only an acquaintance knew lots more about me than I thought she did;
97. Making up after arguing;
98. Having my first real love make me feel beautiful because I did everything to be great for him;
99. Being helped to accept something I struggled with for over a decade;
100. Filling out silly surveys that gain me nothing;
101. Finding nice stuff online;
102. Looking for something cute to cheer up a friend;
103. A beautiful, clear rainbow;
104. Being complimented by someone who I didn’t like before on something done while ill, and when I would have rather expected criticism;
105. Talking a lot;
106. Feeling proud but not arrogant;
107. Giving and receiving reassurance;
108. Hugs and kisses from certain people, or when I’m feeling down;
109. Feeling safe because there are people around me;
110. Strangers who care;
111. Songs that take me back...;
112. Anything inspirational;
113. Wanting to change my life and not care about certain people and ignore them, but realizing I couldn’t do that and that I want to help them no matter what;
114. Sunshine without too much heat;
115. Vacations;
116. Noticing good changes;
117. Taking time to realize how much some things mean;
118. Natural environment, without any stress;
119. First time voting;
120. Sharing feelings with close family/friends;
121. Games;
122. Accomplishing something that used to seem very difficult;
123. Altruism;
124. Apologizing to friends for something I did wrong, or having someone apologize to me for something they did;
125. Forgiveness.
There are definitely more, but I’ll stop for now. I dare y’all to make a bigger list without stealing my ideas
Even if it’s bigger by only one item.
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