100 Very Specific Reasons to Be Alive
Инглиш ридингLife is good, and often for very special, tiny, specific reasons. Here are mine.
- The feeling of well-being after sport
- The soft lips of the person you love against yours
- The smell of pizza
- The feeling of drinking water when you’re really thirsty
- Taking off your shoes to put your feet in the sea
- Reading a book so good that you come out of a trance two hours later
- Laughing alone in public because you just thought of something funny, and having to bite your lips to keep from looking crazy
- Coming home and being filled with a sense of satisfaction about the day you’ve just had
- Blaring(орать) the lyrics of a song(текст песни) while driving alone in your car
- Putting on your favorite underwear in the morning
- Having lunch or dinner on the terrace
- Going to your parents’ house
- Hearing the song of the cicadas for the first time in the season
- Waking up to the first rays of sunlight entering the room
- Receiving good news
- Going home, being alone, making yourself a good dinner, and eating it in front of your favorite TV show
- Taking a nap after lunch (or why not after breakfast)
- Picking up someone you love at the train station
- Realizing that you look pretty good today
- Walking out of the hair salon with a clean cut
- The atmosphere of vacation departures(отпускные поездки)
- Waking up before dawn and realizing you can go back to sleep for a few hours
- Experiencing mindfulness
- The smell of coffee
- Taking a cold shower in summer
- Waking up and finding croissants(круасаны) on the breakfast table that someone who got up early went to get
- Finishing work early and doing something nice in the late afternoon
- Sunrises
- Sunsets
- Putting on(надеть) something you feel comfortable and sexy in
- The evening air cooling off after being hot all day in the summer
- When Spotify randomly puts your three favorite songs in a row
- When you’ve had a bad day and someone takes care of you at night
- Massages
- Feeling in harmony with yourself
- Jumping for joy
- Looking back and seeing how much you have evolved or gotten better on this or that point
- Having a perfect night’s sleep
- Laughing so hard you cry
- Film photography
- Having lunch at your grandmother’s house
- Taking your grandmother to a restaurant for lunch
- Eating comfort food without feeling guilty
- Finding out that your efforts have paid off
- Receiving an opportunity you’ve been dreaming of
- Tasting a new dish
- Getting a new tattoo
- Dyeing(покраска) your hair the color you’ve always wanted
- Receiving a compliment, from a stranger or someone you love
- Dancing like nobody’s watching
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- Feeling the naked body of the person you love against your own naked skin
- Traveling alone
- Traveling in good company
- Spending quality time with your brother or sister
- Meeting a friend for a drink after a long week at work
- Realizing that you have a common passion with a friend, then practicing it together
- Putting on sunscreen(солнцезащитный крем) and forgetting a small spot, and realizing that the spot got sunburned, so thankfully you remembered to put sunscreen on the rest of your body
- The smell of a perfume that suddenly brings back a memory
- The smell of a perfume that suddenly brings back a memory
- Christmas Eve
- Realizing that the photo you just took is great, that it accurately captures the essence of a person, or that it freezes an action impossible to reproduce
- The warm feeling of the sun on your skin
- The feeling of fulfillment that you get at your favorite artists’ concert when you sing and dance and feel carried by the energy of the moment
- The long walks alone, with or without music
- Realizing how much your body does for you
- Eating ice cream from a cone(рожок) while walking by the sea
- Receiving a letter
- Spending time in a bookstore
- Buying books
- Seeing fireflies(светлячков)
- Going to the funfair(ярмарка с атракционами)
- Having accomplished something that was important to you
- Making someone laugh
- Feeling happy and grateful to be alive
- Singing and hitting a certain note and being surprised at yourself
- Taking up a hobby you haven’t done in years
- Learning something new
- Seeing a rainbow
- Repeating the joke of the moment that keeps making your mom laugh
- The sound of a soda(газировка) can being opened
- Successfully pranking someone
- Ordering food at the drive-through and eating in your car in the fast-food parking lot with your significant other, music playing and windows open
- Sitting on the sand of a quiet beach and looking at the sea, preferably at the end of the day
- Looking at the stars and perceiving the immensity(необъятность) of the universe and the mystery of life
- The beautiful plays of light
- When your pet spontaneously climbs on you asking for love
- The smell of a cake baking in the oven
- When you arrive home and your partner or your mother or father has cooked your favorite dish
- Surprises
- Pancakes
- Mixing two foods that don’t normally go together and finding out that it’s delicious
- When you find a banknote in your pants pocket
- When you’ve just finished cleaning and your house is spotless(безупречный)
- When you cook a dish for the first time and it’s delicious
- When you make eye contact at the bar with someone you think is cute
- Arriving at a restaurant, saying you have a reservation, and discovering you got the best table
- Surprising someone
- Feeling loved
- Going to bed on clean sheets
- Lying in the grass when it’s a little cool