here’s a list of ten things that make me happy, bc i need it in these trying times
1. having something that’s “our thing” with someone. a song, a word, a game, a tradition, an ongoing inside joke. that’s what makes me feel connected to people.
2. dogs pulling the leash bc they want to come say hello to me. it makes me cry. i have been chosen
3. snowfall. the kind where those big snowflakes that are actually lots of snowflakes bunched together fall in slow motion. it did today and i shit you not genuinly spun around, looking up at the sky and giggled
4. when someone i’m thinking about texts me out of the blue
5. people exclaiming my name when i enter the room because they’re happy to see me. it doesn’t happen a lot though but i like to do that to other people, their faces just light up and it’s so nice
6. how everything comes alive in the spring. the outdoors suddenly has a scent (lilacs, asphalt, dry grass). the birds singing in the woods. people! where have all these people been? (indoors)
7. this is really basic but how nice isn’t it to be looking forward to things? everything else up till then feels much easier. i get excited about things really easily, i think it’s my default mode
8. like discovering a song i absolutely love, because it makes me excited about going to school the next day, because i’m going to listen to it on repeat on the subway ride
9. wearing the colour red. it’s my power colour
10. the moment after buying a new plant or fresh flowers. just can’t wait till i get home. excitement mode activated
Vincent Van Gogh used to eat yellow paint because he thought it would get the happiness inside him. Many people thought he was mad and stupid for doing so because the paint was toxic, never mind that it was obvious that eating paint couldn’t possible have any direct correlation to one’s happiness, but I never saw that. If you were so unhappy that even the maddest ideas could possible work, like painting the walls of your internal organs yellow, than you are going to do it. It’s really no different than falling in love or taking drugs. There is a greater risk of getting your heart broken or overdosing, but people still do it everyday because there was always that chance it could make things better. Everyone has their yellow paint.
—(via closedforprayer)
