You make a list of random, little things that make you happy. Making your mind remember all these things changes your mood and is guaranteed to at least make you smile, even if it's secret and just on the inside.
Then forget about it and read it over again on your next bad day.
This is my list of 38 things that make me happy:
1. Not growing up
2. Swimming underwater
3. Summer evenings on a swingset
4. A lot of family together in one room
5. The feeling I get after learning my first song on a new instrument
6. Watching historical documentaries
7. Sharing Christ's love with people I don't even know
8. Researching and reading bios about old rock musicians
9. Sneaking into abandoned, creepy places and making an adventure out of it
10. Showing people their potential by capturing in photoshoots-- beauty they didn't know they had.
11. Going into an antique store I haven't been in yet
12. 1950s convertibles
13. Catching a bug or small critter and keeping it as a pet for a day
14. Old hymns, especially sung acapella
15. The smell of tobacco being smoked from a short distance away
16. Eating ice cream at the park
17. Mystery Science Theatres
18. Playing songs with my band and then suddenly realizing people in the audience know the words
19. When male specimens act like gentlemen and treat females like ladies
20. Playing pranks on people and having myself be the last person they'd suspect
21. The fact that I can hardly go anywhere without returning with a funny story about something silly I accidentally did
22. Writing and inventing things
23. Networking with other musicians and meeting new people in general
24. Loving on people that don't often get love
25. Pretending my car is spaceship while I'm driving
26. Wearing little girl dresses and just staying a kid
27. Trying on shoes and finding out I can fit my leg brace in them and don't hurt me to walk in
28. When male specimens wear suspenders or can just dress themselves nicely in general
29. Cotton candy
30. Old female jazz singers who had class
31. Making embarrassing movies with my brothers
32. Eating pasta
33. Buying a new box of crayons and journal every fall, even though I'm not actually in school anymore
34. Animals
35. Dressing up nicely for work or something professional related and pretending I'm in an old movie
36. Traveling and learning about other cultures
37. People's faces from the car in the lane next to me when they notice that I'm singing really loudly in mine all by myself
38. Hugging old people
:)
ReplyDeleteyay from bananacake
Numbers 1, 3, 7, 10, 13, 16, 21, 22, 24, 26, 31, 33, 34, & 38 are some of my favorite things about you. I also like 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17-20, 23, 25, 27-30, 32, & 35-37.
ReplyDeleteBasically, you're one of my favorite people ever.
<3 Cassie Joy