Life is tough. At its most worst it’s chock full of adversity and it’s least worst it’s mostly very boring. I think it’s important to take a step back from inexplicably stressful, tragic and sad life can be and focus on the amazing, miraculous everyday things that can and do happen all the time. No I’m not talking about clichéd sunsets, although those are pretty nice, I mean the serendipitous, coincidental or unexpected little nuggets of happy that pop up everyday.
It’s not winning the lottery, but it is those small victories that keep us going and transform our typical everyday routines into a life worth living.
1. When you realize the song you always skip is a banger.
2. When someone cancels plans that you didn’t want to do anyway.
3. You find money in the purse you haven’t used in a long time.
4. You find the other sock.
5. You actually brought an extra hair tie when you needed it.
6. You actually showed up on time and no one else was late either.
7. You thought that was the last episode but there’s actually 3 more left in the queue.
8. The book that everyone kept telling you to read was actually like crazy good.
9. Free lunch.
10. You cut class but the teacher didn’t check attendance that day anyway.
11. You pick up your phone to text someone and as you’re typing they text you.
12. When you get a free drink on your punch card.
13. When you’ve been thinking about that sandwich all day and it’s actually still there in the fridge.
14. When your browser fills in the web address you’re about to go to.
15. When Google auto-fills the weird thing you were about to search but now you know it’s not weird because a million other people have searched it too.
16. A good hair day.
17. When you just weirdly feel like you look extra, super cute today for no real reason at all.
18. Seeing a puppy on the Internet.
19. Seeing a puppy in real life.
20. Petting a puppy.
21. Walking passed a celebrity and absorbing their aura of decadence.
22. That feeling you get after rearranging your furniture and finding out you had way more space than you thought.
23. Someone throws something and you actually catch it.
24. You go out to dinner and then someone is like, “It’s on me tonight.”
25. The avocado is perfectly ripe when you want to use it.
26. When the weather matches the outfit you want to wear.
27. The package is delivered on time and you are home to sign for it.
28. The thing you wanted to buy for months but were debating about it is now on sale.
29. When you’ve been thinking about someone and you run into them.
30. The Starbucks barista spells your name correctly and remembers your order.
31. You really wanted the thing and then the universe gave you the thing and you’re like, “Yes, I got the thing I really wanted.”
32. Finding a designer item at a thrift store.
33. It’s raining and you brought an umbrella.
34. Someone you’ve been online stalking/bae-watching likes your Instagram selfie.
35. Free cupcakes.
36. You meet someone new and they don’t suck.
37. When a program crashes and you think you’ve lost all your data but then it turns out you didn’t.
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