What are things that bring you joy?
My sprogs. A nice day after shitty weather. Beer. Comedy. Takeaway food. Getting into a freshly made bed after a long day. Sea swimming in the summer.
Speedball lines of opiates and cocaine.
That’ll do it.
goth latinas
Oh yes
Every morning my two youngest kids (under 5) get up around 7:00 AM. The first thing they want to do is sit on my lap in the recliner while I either read to them or turn on one of their TV shows and we just chill for an hour. We do this every day and it’s my favorite part of the day.
I’m a simple man… I see a cat and I pet it. This makes the brain produce the happy juice.
Toddlers. Seeing toddlers stumbling about and discovering their world is fascinating to me.
Similar but different, we have a kitten and it’s funny to see him trying to figure things out. The other day he just stared at our Keurig when I was making coffee. We don’t use it that often and I guess he hadn’t seen it in action before.
When I met my wife, she loved going to theaters to see kids see something amazing for the first time.
She’s so wonderful.
I know a toddler. He’s so fucking charming and positive. He could be a talkshow host.
Not having to go to work, quit work at 40, am now 60.
How did you do it?
Oh, hey, OP! I, too, enjoy touching paintings w/ a bone-dry brush and then holding still in the moment. 😶
maybe OP heard of dry brushing and got a little confused
Mostly simple stuff
An entertaining or educational book, a good philosophical argument, enjoying moments of good health, leisure, and company, the double barrel shotgun in doom, learning a new song or technique on the guitar and using it to create my own stuff, warm socks and cold coffee, figuring out a bug or defect in a program.
Seeing animals, especially in the wild, especially birds. I like to think of every sighting as good luck.
Crashing fresh ice. Especially the one that has air underneath. It crackles really nice. It is very satisfying experience.
My wife and my cats. We got a kitten a few months after my older cat passed and it turned out to be a really good decision (even though he does drive us crazy sometimes, because kittens are basically toddlers with pointy teeth and claws and a 1-meter vertical leap). Not saying kittens are a cure for depression, but it helps.
That moment when you’re stuck on a part of your code and you figure it out, write it, test it and it just works.
It’s rare, but when it happens, it feels very good.
To crush ny enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women!
My wife
My morning meditation
My garden
My cats and dog
My electric bill- no, wait.
