Happiness

What makes you happy? It's important to list those things that make you happy once in a while... Okay, actually it's best to do it everyday single that you're alive because that's what happiness is! It's not an entirety of your life, it's the bits and pieces that pop up throughout the day, all of those little things together make up happiness, Ze Frank said it better in one of his videos (That I might post if I can find it) and, I guess, that I got that philosophy from him, it's not like that's rare, I mean, The guy's incredible! He is so inspiring and helpful and I just don't know what I would have done without his videos and webpage. However, that's not the only thing that got me thinking about happiness tonight and that maybe that's what i should write about in my blog which has been going down hill in quality lately.

In reality, tonight, when I was stumped on what to write and was feeling particularly worthless, I had an epiphany on what I could do to get myself out of this, shall we say, slump. At first, I though it was a bit crazy but it turned out to be very helpful in jump starting my brain and giving me the boost that I needed, which was good because without the payoff it would have just been incredibly stupid. I decided to have a little monologue, complete with pacing and arm gestures, and in this monologue, I went through all of the things that were on my mind and as usual I ended up with a lot of things that weren't in the front of my mind but were buried underneath a layer of monotonous goop. When I dug down deep enough, through the big picture, I found what we all find when we search a little harder, I found the little things. The little things that make life worth living, and then I thought 'When isn't it a good time to talk about what make's us happy?' So here I am, writing about the small things that make me happy happy in order to make anybody who's reading this perhaps a little happy happy too. :)

I don't really want to make paragraphs and paragraphs over something that could easily be expressed accurately through a list, so here's twenty things that make me happy! This is my "Happy List"

1. Hugs from my mum (especially when she's in a comfy sweater)
2. Watching stand up comedians with my dad
3. Giving my dad high fives
4. Watching one of my mum and I's special movies
5. Anything to do with Captain America
6. Scarlet Johansson's smile
7. The way Evangeline Lilly says "Bilbo Baggins"
8. The way the grass feels on a warm, sunny day
9. sprawling out in a pile of pillows 
10. Everything about Amanda Abbington 
11. When Simon laughs a silent laugh 
12. Opening a can of Mountain Dew
13. The sound of someone typing very quickly 
14. Holding my rats and making them all love drunk 
15. The snappy sound that my journal makes when I open it
16. When John randomly touches my hair or hands
17. Finishing a post or a story
18. Sassy Loki 
19. The smell of a comic book
20. Making food for John

So there's my list of things that make me happy, I hope that some of those things will remind you of what makes you happy because on hard days, those little things are the things that keep us going moment to moment and we should always appreciate what makes us smile and recognize the effect that the people around us have on our happiness, this is helpful because when you feel like strangling them, you can look back and say "Oh yeah, they make up some of what keeps me going, I guess I can handle them today."

Here's Ze Frank's video on happiness, It's absolutely awesome! He makes some great points, as usual, and it's definitely the video that I go to when I'm down and need a pick me up. Trust me, everyone in the world needs to watch this video, I seriously can't over sell this! Just watch it!