• Family and other loved ones, and the ability to learn about one's ancestry.
  • Nature itself, and the feeling of being totally immersed in it.
  • Happiness, love, peace, truth, compassion, courage.
  • The gift of memory and the weird way it works.
  • The genius of time, language, the universe, and cells.
  • Epiphanies and other moments of heightened clarity, and how those feel.
  • Day- and Night-dreams.
  • Warm rains and warm breezes on bare feet.
  • The ability to photograph things and have them last so long.
  • Someone else smiling or laughing genuinely, and the way it makes you feel.
  • Seeing little kid-couples or elderly-couples thoroughly enjoying each others company.
  • The ability to easily communicate abstract/complex things to people you really connect with.
  • Communication without words.
  • The way eyes look up close.
  • Seeing others dancing and singing and generally being carefree/spontaneous...or being that way yourself.
  • Hearing people talk in foreign languages.
  • The way you can make up a word or mispronounce it and people still know what you mean.
  • Meeting strangers who are genuinely friendly.
  • Large amounts of wisdom and truth packed into relatively few words.
  • Random acts of kindness.
  • The ability to read someone else's thoughts/ideas from a world away, the minute they write them.
  • Orgasms and really good sex, or spending all afternoon in bed together.
  • Rainbows and other prisms, sunsets/sunrises, and other natural miracles.
  • Black licorice and black jellybeans.


Just making that list made me feel better about life.