If you’re anything like me, sometimes life just gets to you and all you can do is take a step back and think of (or write!) all t he things that make you happy. Writing about what makes me happy always seems to counteract a bad day. I challenge you to write down a few things every day that makes you happy, and you’ll be surprised at all the simple things in life that can put a smile on your face! Here are 50 things that made me happy today:
1. A sunny spring day
3. The 3 dogs I saw on campus
4. Cereal for lunch and dinner
5. Listening to Ed Sheeran’s new album on repeat
6. Iced vanilla coffee
7. The purple flowers outside my window
8. My friends
9. Finishing my lab report
10. Teal nail polish
11. Having the door held open for me
12. 24 hour Dutch Brothers
13. Clean laundry
14. Basketball open gym
15. 60 degree weather
16. Trees for hammocking
17. Cozy blankets
18. My awesome school
19. The two guys playing ukulele in the University Center
20. Peanut butter M&Ms
21. An open study room at the library
22. A fully charged laptop
23. A good book
24. Birkenstocks with socks
25. A “cotton candy” colored sunset
26. “That 70’s Show” on Netflix
27. Funny filters on Snapchat
28. Facetiming my sister and brother
29. Looking at pictures from summer vacation
30. Planning future road trips
31. Finding the jeans I thought I had lost
32. My mini Christmas tree that I still have up
33. Extra credit points
34. A full tank of gas
35. Lavender hand soap
36. Lemonade
37. Videos of dogs on Facebook
38. Journaling
39. My favorite sweatshirt
40. The mountains
41. New friends
42. A quiet campus at 7 o’clock this morning
43. Free events
44. Cheese bagels
45. Texts that make me laugh out loud
46. Starbucks on campus
47. Planning beach trips
48. Making it through the day without my phone dying
49. Tie-dye t-shirts
50. Writing for Odyssey!
