The world can be so triumphantly shitty sometimes. So astoundingly bad that it's very tough to believe that good even exists. Lately, I've had a pretty bad time, and I made a promise to myself. In order to keep myself afloat in a perpetual sea of crap, I have to remind myself constantly of the seemingly insignificant little things that make this world good. Here's just a select few of those things:
1. Clean notebooks
2. Bulk packs of pens
3. Multi-colored Post-it cubes
4. Those fat little birds on the street that just kind of boing around wherever they need to go.
5. Saturday afternoons
6. The existence of Netflix
7. My best friend down the street
8. The friend that I've managed to keep for 14 years so far
9. Full, overstocked bookshelves
10. The class schedule for an upcoming semester
11. Robert Downey Jr.
12. The Walking Dead
13. Movies
14. Polite children
15. Oversized hair accessories
16. The sheer act of writing, putting pen to paper.
17. A full bank account on pay day
18. Slam poetry
19. Anything with Guy Fieri
20. The existence of the phrase "Flavor Town"
21. Food porn
22. I can't lie, sometimes actual porn
23. Watching one side of the book get bigger as you get closer to finishing it
24. Quirky mugs
25. Photobooths
26. Beanies in the winter
28. Fun socks
29. Yearbooks
30. Posters
31. Memes
32. Straight, unwrinkled bedspreads
33. Empty, undecorated walls
34. Chandler Bing
35. Relationships like Jim and Pam Halpert
36. Filled journals
37. Empty beds
38. Comic books
39. The storage/organization section at Target
40. Quiet walks
41. A fully charged iPod
42. Pretty much anything to do with Hamilton
43. Beef
44. The glorious combination of garlic and mashed potatoes
45. Summer thunderstorms
46. Oversized sweaters
47. Neil Patrick Harris
48. Jaunty Broadway tunes
49. Taking off your bra after a long day at work
50. Giftcards
51. Big cupcakes
52. That little butt wiggle you do when you try on cute new underwear
53. Super chubby birds
54. Big dogs that have no idea how big they actually are
55. Old dogs
56. Particularly fluffy dogs
57. Baby dogs
58. Happy dogs
59. Dogs
60. That little squeak that kittens make
61. That badass onion volcano at Benihana
62. Air conditioning
63. Large, spacious couches
64. Smelly hand sanitizers
65. Sales on overpriced clothing
66. Bags full of previously overpriced clothing
67. Unlikely animal friendships
68. Much needed silence
When I first started to feel a little bit depressed, I promised myself that I would never turn into that kind of person who relies on medicine and constantly wallows in their own self pity. Yes, the world can be terrible. And it's pretty easy to fall into that pit and not be able to claw your way out. But if you take the time to sift through the piles upon piles of crap, you'll find that there exists so much good that you may not have noticed before. So I try to take stock of the little things, and that's the best form of self-medication that I can think of.
