• being home alone on a sunlit afternoon
• having someone at night to snuggle up to
• sleeping in
• surviving something terrifying no worse for the ware
• boys with wavy, brown, shoulder-length hair
• warm, well lit rooms
• handwritten letters
• buying secondhand books for less than a dollar
• listening to "old time rock and roll" as I devour strawberry waffles
• old souls
• learning without the pressure to succeed
• boys that fancy me
• things that taste like fire
• feeling warm, safe, and content
• taking a deep, steadying breath
• telling stories
• magical adventures
• enjoying the cinema by myself
• doing little things that others aren't allowed to
• being seduced
• bilingual movies
• people asking me to go out for a change
• drinking lukewarm tea
• receiving things that I desperately need
• conversing with strangers
• doing something nice for someone who can never reciprocate the gesture
• epic dreams
• the prospect of being beautiful
• memories
• shouting out lyrics at the top of my lungs
• the international terminal at hartsfield-jackson
• explaining how "without just one nest, a bird can call the world home"
• savoring my grandmother's scrumptious grits
• staying up until all hours of the morning for a chance at Pottermore with my cousin, hunting for the perfect butterbeer frappuccino with Alex, or just watching A Very Potter Musical with my bfs (basically that part of childhood you just won't leave)

to be continued...