I will keep adding items as they occur to me.
Things that make me happy:
- Eating breakfast sitting on my sunny front porch
- Making love / feeling loved / expressing love to someone who adores it
- An excellent conversation
- A delicious meal
- The sense of accomplishment at a task or project well done
- A cool breeze on a warm day
- Harvesting food from my garden
- A just-cleaned home
- A clean, warm towel
- Clean bedsheets
- Myself or someone else growing to their full potential
- A kind offer of assistance, given or received
- A heartfelt apology for wrongdoing, given or received
- Returning home after a journey
Things that make me sad:
- Leaving a much-loved person or place
- Being ill
- Feeling alone
- Injustice
- Untimely or unwarranted death
- The ravages of unbridled welfare capitalism
- Evictions
- People who convince themselves they aren’t worthy (unless it’s part of a kinky scene)
- People who underestimate themselves or others
- People who can’t see beyond the box they are in
- Unfairly judging people on personal characteristics such as race, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.