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Ten reasons to smile

omg i can hardly handle it so far...face hurts already.

"weeeeeeell"

music
creative free-speech and media such as this
my family
my friends
food
large windows
sunsets and sunrises
kaleidoscopes
sharing
listening
patience
 
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Good list PiP.
Still Putting mine together.
Kerian's smile is more infectious in person, if you can believe it.
 
haha maybe i cant believe such an infectious smile, but i can try...
10 times or more!

one - infectious smiles
2 - imagining them
thrice - writing about anything positive or even not for the moment, because it usually does work out good after all.when i allow myself to put my mind to it
4 -my cat patiently watching waiting to eat her share of salmon
fiver - thinking i am lost in the woods, and then finding the way anyhow
6 - remembering back, to the first fish i was gifted to name and feed
seven - knowing that there is always a reason to smile
8 - interpreting freely what i see as happy to me
niner - today & yesterday + the thought of tomorrow





ze number TEN - no matter how frustrated i seem to become practicing mathematics and doing a terrible job at finding a resolution - it makes me happy because i can always laugh at myself.
 
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this thread made me smile :) also the song i have on. tonight was a great night with my girlfriend, we smiled a lot. i was pissed at work but i read something on BL earlier today about some guy realizing life is too short to be an ass on drugs and off. i only got 17 (18 now!) days sober, which makes me smile but is hard at the same time. my brother and i are talking again, that makes me happy.

i need to call my mom back. she was a major part in me makin in through the physical, and she makes me smile as well as the rest of my family.

expressing myself, even if its singing the music i love at work and annoying everyone else, makes me smile and laugh.

its like coming off drugs has given me mania. not like when your dopesick and start laughing and crying in the same minute, but i laugh and smile so much more now.
 
^when you've been getting.high everyday, sobriety becomes a trip. ;)
Good job for being sober! The first couple months are the hardest IME.

I've got my list now!
Music
Taking pictures
My dog
My friends
My family
Palm trees
The sky (and everything about it)
My motorcycle
Learning new things

And last but not least, Bluelight.

:)
 
For me...

1I'M NOT DEAD! (yay for being alive period)..reason to smile.
2Math and Science... I LOVE being able to use my head, to think, and critically analyse things... I smile after doing a pile of tl;dr equations and answering a question.
3My GF and my buddies... all in all... I have some great people in my life... they always make me smile.
4C and FORTRAN...sort of like science I guess... I love hacking and kludging around with code.... making the most obscure, WTF piece of code possible makes me smile.
5my car and my motorcycle... nothing like the high pitched whine of a literbike as drop it down two gears and crack the throttle... try not smiling at 185mph!
6jumping out planes and getting lost in the desert and shit... sometimes its been scary and brutal, but damn, I had fun and got stories that I can tell forever... I might of frowned at the time, but telling someone how a JDAM going off made me feel like I'd been biatch slapped makes me smile.
7music, nuff said?
8being able to contribute/help/etc... it does feel good sometimes... I do smile when I can actually fix someones problem.
9the lulz. If I had to be all serious all the time, that sucks... hence the lulz (by definition I guess)make me smile.
10) delicious womenz... yeah yeah, say what you like, but seeing a cute girl makes me smile a bit.
 
ten reasons?

I only have one, counting as four; and for her being here, those four count as so many more

intense/consuming as fire. solid/malleable as stone. relentless/powerful as water. limitless/sustaining as air.

one woman....
with me every day.

smiling is easy.
 
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today's list:
1) starting off the 5-month anniversary of my son's death (today) with a phone call from a man that barely knew him, telling me how much my son still meant to him and always would.
2) the kid in the video
3) the humpback whales in the bay today
4) my patio, October sun
5) my persimmon tree
6) getting to lie in bed with my cats and leisurely think about things
7) all my brave friends
8) my neighbor's mandolin
9) Justin becoming Ada
10) Ada becoming herself
 
Okay, I'm going to try and find my 10 over the next few days :)
That video almost made me shed a tear, but there's a few people over and that would make it really awkward :P

I like the "As seen on Bluelight" on the bottom right.
 
1) Having not 1 but 3 dreams about Caleb!
2) waking up and feeling more grateful than sad
3) being in a crowd of strangers yesterday cheering in unison when the humpback whales breached over and over again right off the beach
4) all the tourists gone and the best beach weather of the year
5) the little kids costumes and euphoria at being out in the night for Halloween
6) flying dreams
7) Jane Hirshfield (and getting to hear her read)
8 ) really good lyrics
9) http://youtu.be/fi12f5j1VA0
10) one more day!
 
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In no particular order

1. Warm ass cozy socks
2. Strong Coffee in the morning
3. Good friends
4. Sharing such an intimate connection with someone there's no need to speak
5. Walking downtown with headphones in, jamming out
6. Not giving a fuck what people think
7. Not giving in to temptation
8. Candy
9. Music and everything related
10. The first day you're not forced awake by withdraw

This made my day, and definitely gave me a few things to look forward to :)
 
I <3 this thread :)

Okay here is my list:

1. My family, knowing I have their unconditional love and support always
2. My wonderful friends - from new BL friends to old best friends <3
3. Music - from gabba kicks to heart-breaking melodies, I can't imagine life without it
4. My beautiful apartment and making it feel like home with a new candle or cushion, despite the huge missing part currently
5. Lemon curd on toast.. mmmmmm
6. Raving infront of a big speaker stack and losing yourself so much it feels like a religious experience (if I was religious)
7. Kalaidoscopes (stolen from you pip, but so true!)
8. Science and the way it boggles my mind!
9. Nature, trees, animals, the changing seasons.. yeah I'm a hippy, haha.
10. Hope that things will get better

:)
 
1. Effie
2. Effie's list
3. living by a beautiful beach
4. for one sparkling day being the only one on it
5. beach glass
6. double overhead waves
7. PiP's metaphors
8. the way life opens out and in
9. cartwheels over 50
10. more time
 
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