• How it's possible to laugh so hard that it feels like I just did an ab workout.
  • Catching myself smiling when thinking about a memory.
  • Smelling my favorite meal being cooked for dinner.
  • Waking up to realize that I still have another hour to sleep in.
  • Having the smell of air caught on my clothes.
  • Spending hours in a restaurant talking to my friends and not even taking a bite of my food.
  • Knowing the answer to a question on a game show.
  • Dancing in the aisles of the supermarket.
  • Eating a meal that I cooked and can feel proud of.
  • The feeling I get when I'm nice to those who are left out.
  • Finding a lucky penny.
  • Finally learning the name of that song that I haven't been able to remember in months.
  • How exciting it is to get something in the mail addressed to me.
  • The feeling of donating to a charity.
  • The funniest things little kids say.
  • When I have such a better day than yesterday.
  • Finally getting into bed after a long night of studying.
  • When I think that I need a refill but I realize that the ice has melted just enough.
  • When the cashier rings up whatever I'm buying and I realize that it's on sale.
  • When I can actually get to bed early.
  • Closing a book after you've finished reading the last page.
  • When you and your friend look at eachother for a moment, and then start cracking up for no reason
  • Having some one give you a big smile or just say hi
  • Getting into your comfy bed when it's chilly.
  • The way you feel after doing all your homework, even though you didnt want to.
  • Thinking of any old memory and dying laughing.
  • Getting a good grade on a test that you didnt study for.
  • Days where you think you look bad, but you get compliments from random people.
  • Getting a text from someone you havent talked to in ages and catching up.
  • The way your teeth feel after you just brushed them.
  • Wishing at 11:11.
  • When you make someone smile.
  • When you thought you had no gum left, but look in the pack and see one last piece.
  • The way the sun feels when you first walk outside in summer.
  • Spending every holiday relaxing with friends and family
  • Getting to sleep in an extra day on long weekends.
  • The feeling of being proud of yourself.
  • The feeling of drinking hot chocolate after being out in the cold.
  • When you hear an amazing song for the first time.
  • When you think something isnt going to happen, but then it does.
  • When you find a 20 dollar bill in an old pair of jeans.
  • When you throw your hands in the air, yell, or skip and feel like a kid again
  • Receiving hugs from your best friends.
  • When you think you failed a test and you end up with an A.
  • When you see an old married couple still acting all lovey dovey and you catch yourself smiling at their happiness.
  • Feeling that there's not a thing in the world that can bring you down, grinning from ear to ear.
  • Feeling the sand in between your toes, the warm sun on your back, and the clear water surround you.
  • When someone reminds you when ever you need them they are just a phone call away
  • Those days where you wake up and are just so thankful that this is your life.
  • When you come back from a week long trip and your best friends run and hug you to death the second you see them again.
  • Listening to that new song you just put on your ipod on repeat over and over again.
  • Talking about everything with your bestfriend.
  • The feeling you get when you get to see or even hear someone who you've been missing so much.
  • When you come home from a long vacation, and it feels amazing just to lay in your bed and take everything in.
  • Knowing that you have your family through it all.
  • The smell of freshly cut grass when you wake up on a summer day.
  • Whe feeling of jumping into a cold pool when it's the hottest day of summer.
  • Seeing that perfect shirt, and there's one left in your size.
  • Fresh mountain air
  • A home-cooked meal.
  • When summer is almost there.
  • Counting how many pieces of candy you get for Halloween.
  • When you arent in school one day and all your friends tell you they missed you.
  • Catching snow flakes on your tongue
  • Running down hills.
  • When it's cold outside, and you smell someone making a fire.
  • Opening your curtains and letting a beam of sunlight into your room.
  • Singing and blasting songs with your friends in the car on the way to the mall or movies.
  • Watching your favorite show on a rainy day.
  • Listening to an old song from years ago and remembering all the words.
  • When you have a ton of photo comments from your best friends on pictures of you and them.
  • How you can't help being happy at Disney World.
  • Singing as loud as you can all by yourself.
  • Following your dreams.
  • When you come in from the snow and curl up on the couch in front of the fire and hot chocolate.
  • Making the perfect snow-angel.
  • Laughing so hard that you actually go weak at the knees and fall over.
  • Reminising on your life so far and realizing that you have lived a good life and love your life.
  • Realizing the changing colors on the leaves and how beautiful fall is.
  • Finding old pictures or watching home videos of when you were litte.
  • When you do REALLY good on an audition.
  • After you do a show and your family gives you flowers.
  • Actually saying "no" to something thats wrong.
  • Singing and dancing in the rain.
  • Getting an eskimo kiss.
  • The feeling of being on a soccer field and you know you'll suceed because you have your ten best friends with you on the field.
  • When you realize you wouldn't be the same without something.
  • When your friends do something really nice for you, without any reason
  • Dreams that make you smile, even if you don't know why.
  • When you wake up on the first day of summer and realize you don't have to go to school for three months.
  • When random strangers smile at you, just being friendly.
  • Holding hands.
  • Finding a book that you can read over and over again, and fall in love with the characters in it.
  • Doing absolutely nothing with friends and love every minute of it.
  • Having a sleepover with your best friend(s) and just talking for hours on end in the middle of the night about everything
  • Amazing candid photos
  • Cuddling up and reading a good book; getting lost in it.
  • Thinking about dreams for your future and getting really excited about them.
  • Finding a song that you can totally relate to.
  • Knowing that in the end, everything will be okay.

I did not come up with all of these things myself. I just figured that I would make this list to remind myself and others who read it how valuable life really is, and how just the smallest things can make your day.

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