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Please help me to know you better knowing your list your priorities about Happiness!
<p>Happiness is: 1. Falling in love. 2. Laughing so hard your face hurts. 3. A hot shower. 4. No lines at the supermarket. 5. A special glance. 6. Getting mail. 7. Taking a drive on a pretty road. 8. Hearing your favourite song on the radio. 9. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside. 10. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer. 11. Chocolate milkshake ... (or vanilla ... or strawberry!)12. A bubble bath. 13. Giggling. 14. A good conversation. 15. The beach.16. Finding a 100 Euro note in your coat from last winter. 17. Laughing at yourself.18. Eye contact with a hot boy.19. Midnight phone calls that last for hours. 20. Running through sprinklers. 21. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all. 22. Having someone tell you that you're beautiful/good looking. 23. Laughing at an inside joke. 24. Friends. 25. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you. 26. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep. 27. Your first kiss (either the very first or with a new partner). 28. Making new friends or spending time with old ones. 29. Playing with a new friend. 30. Having someone play with your hair. 31. Sweet dreams. 32. Hot chocolate. 33. Road trips with friends. 34. Swinging on swings. 35. Making eye contact with a cute stranger. 36. Making chocolate chip cookies (and eating them...!). 37. Having your friends send you homemade cookies. 38. Holding hands with someone you care about. 39. Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change. 40. Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a much-desired present from you. 41. Watching the sunrise. 42. Getting out of bed every morning and being grateful for another beautiful day. 43. Knowing that somebody misses you.44. Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply. 45. Knowing you've done the right thing.</p>
I would add three more to my list:
-kissing solid ground after a scary voyage in a small boat
-finding a back-street traditional French restaurant with time-expired furniture and scrubbed wood tables, but with real food (none of that nouvelle cuisine) and a real welcome and chat and the chance to sleep on or under the table (with or without le garçon) if you can’t make it home.
-holding a warm boy in your embrace forever, or at least until dawn.
I actually think your blog is about happiness, not contentment. Happiness is a broad idea and one should not insist on applying it to one form. Yes, there is the inner pleasure of the sage, perhaps, by inversion of terms, best described as contentment, but for me happiness touches joy and pleasure and ecstasy and orgasm while contentment is a steadier, longer, quieter more resigned thing: satisfaction, acceptance, acquiescence, ”desiring nothing more or nothing different” . Never let a linguist out of his cage.
will add sow a seed or two and watch it grow like a pumpkin - giles
Thinking every day “that was a good day”,but you have to work at it
Finding time to listen to the birds (and Sibelius and Beethoven) and smell the flowers
Having someone to love and be loved everyday.
Climbing a mountain in mist without a map and climbing down again without falling off
Finishing the day with a good wine and leaving tomorrow to mind itself. ‘So tonight let’s drink; tomorrow we cross the mountainous seas’(Horace, I think)
Being your simple honest self.
Trying to be a good companion and listener and a dependable friend and lover
Friendship
Admiring someone
That first touch and kiss and hug.
Lying with a lover/loved in a field under the stars on a warm Mediterranean night.
Sitting on a hill and delayering the landscape century by century until there is only crag, bog and forest, then feeling very alone!