I don’t feel like working on Eugenia today. I’m just not in the mood. I’m feeling tired and introspective.
I was thinking the other day about a question religious people like to ask me when they find out I’m agnostic. “What makes life worth living?” It’s kind of a weird question, because honestly, what isn’t worth living? But I thought I’d make a decently comprehensive list anyways.
1. Seeing friends
2. Giving people gifts and watching their faces light up
3. Babies laughing
4. Creating beautiful things
5. Going on road trips
6. Learning new things
7. Philosophical debates over text message
8. New music
9. A family that loves you
10. Visiting museums
11. Learning similarities about people
12. YouTube and it’s community
13. Farmer’s markets
14. Pesto pizza
15. That brief period of time during the winter that Starbucks serves Pumpkin Spice lattes
16. Going to concerts
17. Seeing a new place for the first time
18. Sitting by a river and watching it run
19. The perfect combination of words
20. Being so absorbed in a book you forget to eat and go to the bathroom
21. Bargain books
22. iTunes gift certificates
23. That brief moment of connection you feel when you smile at someone you don’t know and will never see again
24. Hugs
25. Long hugs
26. Going to dinner with people you haven’t seen in a while
27. Visiting your old schools and remembering the good times
28. Moving on
29. Moving out
30. Midnight bagel toast
31. Watching the Macy’s Day Parade while eating pancakes on the floor of your living room
32. Star gazing and picking a favorite constellation (Mine’s Casseopia)
33. Writing songs to help you remember facts
34. Music comedy acts
35. Meeting someone famous at an unexpected time
36. Being in love
37. Figuring out the metro system in a foriegn city
38. Experimenting with smoothie recipes
39. Chaco tans
40. Inner tubing down a local river with a group of the chillest people in the world
41. Someone answering your question of a live broadcast
42. Planning trips
43. Choosing a major
44. Taking art classes instead of calculus
45. Letting go of something that hurts
46. GAP sales and getting a really cute shirt for two dollars
47. Being recognized at a coffee shop because you come in so often
48. Acoustic rap covers
49. The soreness after a good workout
50. Those brief moments of happiness that come only when you open your heart and let everything in to warm it
