10 Things That Make Me Really Happy

Sunday, January 7, 2018

So my sister gave me this ’30 Day Writing Challenge’, and the first day challenge is….

“LIST 10 THINGS THAT MAKE YOU REALLY HAPPY”

Okay, so… My wise friend told me once; there are only two things in the world that give a human true happiness: to give and to be trusted.

But I’m not there yet. For now, here are the 10 things that make me happy:

10 Dogs

I can’t say I’m an animal lover—or even dog lover if it means I have to take care of it—but dogs make me happy. They are the best creature I’ve ever seen! All dogs are incredibly cute, beautiful, and adorable! They are angels, really.

9 Sports game

Especially football (soccer, but I’d love to play American football too), but any other sports game would do. I love to play, not to watch, because I don’t like to watch. I love to be watched instead, even if I suck, playing is still better than watching. Especially when I watch my favorite football team, I usually get too attached emotionally and it ruins my mood for no reason. I hate it.

8 Books

I don’t read many books. I don’t read often, because I don’t have enough time. But I love books. Just being in a library or a bookstore makes me so happy. I’m surrounded by so many interesting books that I’d definitely read if I had the time.

7 Traveling

I prefer to do it alone, but to travel with my family is awesome too. I love to travel to other countries with completely different culture with mine. I love to travel to countries with languages I’ve learned, interact with the locals, and get them awed with my ability to speak in their tongue, even though I actually suck at it. That’s one of the best feelings. Especially the Europeans, they are mostly very appreciative.

6 Food

Pizza, olive, assorted cheese, fresh salmon, fresh oyster, creamy desserts…

I know some people would say, “It’s just food, it’s not love,” but for me, “It’s just love, not food,” makes more sense. I mean, love is beautiful. I love love. But honestly, who can live without food? Come on!

5 Learning

I love to learn about a lot of new things. Mind the ‘new’. It means I love it when it’s new for me. When I’ve learned it for a while, I got bored and move to the other things to learn. What have I learned by the way? Well, I’ve learned eight foreign languages, and speak none of them properly. Lol! I learned about philosophy, astronomy, psychology, sociology, the history of human, of language, of arts, of football, of fashion, of… yeah you name it, and now have forgotten most of them. Who cares? It makes me happy.

4 Writing

I’ve always loved to write. It’s the best thing to do in the world. It makes me happy to share whatever I thought, even if it would sound so dumb and ridiculous the very next day. I’m pretty expressive. I love to express whatever I feel, think, or dream about. I love to write stories and ideas. I used to write teen-series that were popular among my junior high and high school friends. And if I wanna be really honest, if I don’t have to think about making money, I’d love to be a writer. I mean, yeah some famous writers are extremely rich. But I don’t wanna write, being worried about whether my books would make money or not. I wanna just write because it makes me really happy.

3 The internet

Well, I don’t even have to explain, do I?

2 My inner circle

I love spending time with my sister and brother and their partners, my dad and mom, my cousins, some of my aunts and uncles, and my close friends (I have plenty). They’re so fun, awesome, and some of them are actually wise and inspiring. I won’t say I’d take a bullet for them, but trust me, they’re important enough to be put in number 2 in my sources of happiness list.

PS. No, romantic partner is not one of them. They’re like kids or animals: it’s fun to play with others’, but not so fun to have your own because you need to take care of it.

Because…

1 Me time

As much as I love the people I mentioned in number 2, I mostly love to be alone: watching movies or TV series, eat junk food, reading, making artworks, writing, listening to my music, singing it out loud, contemplating about life, taking a nice, warm, bubble bath, or even just doing useless thing like checking on social media. I still need people. As most people, I can’t live alone. But, me time is the best thing in the world, don’t you agree?

Okay, those are the 10 things that make me happy. There are a lot of things actually, but either they didn’t make it to the top 10, or I just forgot them. Anyway, see you in the next post.