There is a very brief moment when you first wake up. You don’t think of anything. You don’t have any memories. It is a new day, an entirely new, blank slate.
Little moments like these are often overlooked and the happiness that these moments bring us is often not recognized. We should be recognizing the small things that make our souls happy. We should start fueling our lives with very simple, pure bliss.
Here is a list of some very simple things that make us happy, even if it is subconsciously, on a daily basis.
1. Taking your work clothes off, and changing into sweatpants
2. Fresh bed sheets
3. Walking barefoot on a freshly vacuumed, fluffy carpet
4. Having the opportunity to sleep in your own bed after a night of drinking
5. When people say, “Wow! You’re so tan!”
6. Toasting your bagel to that perfect golden-brown color
7. When someone (OK, anyone) plays with your hair
8. Getting your back tickled
9. Crossing the last item off your to-do list
10. Spooning
11. Hearing the doorbell finally ring after you’ve been waiting for your pizza forever
12. Walking into Chipotle and seeing no line (very rare, but it has happened before)
13. When Panera is not out of bread bowls for once
14. Smiling through a kiss
15. When the sun finally comes out at the beach after it’s been raining all week
16. Going out to breakfast
17. Finding money in your back pocket
18. Laughing so hard that it physically hurts your stomach
19. Reading any kind of article that reminds you of the greatest years of all times: The 90’s
20. Finding any kind of object that reminds you of the greatest years of all times: The 90’s (Tamagotchi’s, HitClips, Heely’s, Furby’s, SkipIt’s…etc.)
21. Hotel beds
22. Putting on aloe & laying naked in your bed under the fan after a day at the beach
23. Outdoor showers
24. Waking up before your alarm goes off, and realizing that you can go back to sleep for a little while longer
25. Heated blankets
26. Reading through your old yearbook
27. Campfires
28. When the much-anticipated beat finally drops
29. Long conversations with old friends that leave you feeling nostalgic
30. Staying up late just so you can keep texting that person because the conversation is just too good
31. Waking up in the middle of the night so thirsty, only to look over next to you & remember that you brought up a gigantic glass of water
32. Getting an “A” on an exam you genuinely believed you were going to fail
33. When the teacher allows you to answer on the exam itself, instead of having a separate answer sheet
34. Ice cold lemonade (only because I really, really, really, want lemonade at this exact second that I’m writing this.)
35. Double spacing an essay after you type it only to notice that you just met the exact page requirements
36. Driving with the windows down and heat blasted on your feet
37. Getting so sucked into a good book that you completely forget your own reality
38. Finding a great parking spot
39. When someone else cleans all the snow off your car for you (my dad did this once and yes, it was blissful.)
40. Going out to ice cream with your family on vacation, just like the good ol’ days
41. Coffee shops
42. Hand massages (rare, but fantastic)
43. Flannels
44. That first bite into cool, soft, creamy cheesecake
45. When your handwriting looks so perfectly neat
46. When you finally finish writing out that giant stack of notecards
47. Little sun showers
48. Any kind of place that lets you eat outside & listen to acoustic live music at the same time
49. Dancing to good music with good people
50. Finding a new show to binge watch on Netflix
See simplicity in the complicated, and seek bliss in even the small things. Whatever is good for the soul, do that.
