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2004-01-19 Happier Entry I realize that I spend a great deal of time here bitchin’ and complaining about various aspects of my life. I suppose that some of that is due to being 24, not long out of university, not knowing where my life is going, feeling frustrated that I still live at home with my parents when I have intended to be out on my own quite some time ago. It’s also maybe the pressure I sometimes feel from being so needed by my parents, which can make me feel trapped. Maybe it’s also due in part to still being single, not having had a real date in a very, very long time. But I think it’s also, in large part, due to the fact that I rarely sit back and think about all the things (and people) that make me happy. It’s often easier to be unhappy – we have this idea that contentment is something that should be easy, but that’s not always the case. So, in the attempt to write something that’s not so doom-and-gloom, I’m going to list off the things (and people) that make me happy, in no particular order: 1. In cooler weather, a nice, hot shower where it’s just below scalding. 2. Along a similar vein, new pretty-smelling shower gel / soap / bodywash. 3. Curling up with a good book. 4. A picnic out in a park with lots of trees around, having good conversation (this I’ll take over dinner in an expensive restaurant any day). 5. Going for walks at the falls near my nanny’s house. 6. My nanny – she’s almost 90, but she has such a great social life. I love listening to her talk about the past: her days on the farm, when her mother had my nanny’s current home as a boarding house, her days with my Papa in Val-d’Or, and so and so forth. 7. Writing. If I didn’t have this, I think I’d go mad. 8. My friends (yesterday’s entry notwithstanding). All of them, those online and not. I may get frustrated with them from time to time, but I don’t know where I’d be without them. 9. Driving up north when I get out of the more urban areas and everything around is farmland. 10. Anything from Subway. 11. Funny scenes on television or in movies. 12. Horror movies that scare the bejeezus out of me (that is, until I turn off the light to go to bed). 13. A nice, warm, cozy bed after a long day’s work. 14. Swimming 15. Horse-back riding. 16. Sherry – we had plenty of arguments when we were growing up, but neither of us really meant a nasty word we said to one another. She’s always been one of my best friends. 17. My cat. He’s my baby. 18. Hayley – she brightens even my grumpiest day. My heart fills up with so much love that I think it’ll burst. 19. George – I never had a brother. I’m happier than words could express that I finally have one who is so incredibly wonderful. 20. My mom – sometimes we get so goofy that I think we share the same madness. 21. My dad – yes, I get pissed off at him a lot, but sometimes he does something that reminds me that he is the same dad I had before his stroke. 22. A coffee when I get up in the morning. 23. A cup of cocoa, which I don’t drink often enough. 24. Playing board games. 25. Doing rituals for Wicca 26. Talking (endlessly) about religion. 27. Reading a story in an Archie comic I’ve read a gazillion times before that makes me laugh out loud all of a sudden. 28. Dancing, something else I haven’t done in awhile. 29. Having this online journal and my weblog. There is more, I’m sure, but these are the ones I have thought of at the moment. I think that 29 things / people that make me happy is pretty damn good, though, and maybe I should focus on these rather than all the things that go wrong on a daily basis. What makes you happy?
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