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Counting Happiness Feels Like a Lie

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Daily writing prompt
List 30 things that make you happy.
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I don’t get this thing where people make lists about what makes them happy. Feels like busywork for souls that forgot how to breathe. Maybe that’s the trick now—scribble down thirty reasons to keep your heart beating and hope one of them sticks.

Me? I don’t have thirty.

Hell, I barely scraped together five—and even that feels like a stretch some days. But here they are, the small anchors that keep me from drifting too far:

  1. A cup of coffee strong enough to burn the fog out of my skull.
  2. A good smoke when the world won’t shut up.
  3. A pen that glides like it knows what I’m about to say before I do.
  4. A fresh pad of paper, clean and waiting for truth or madness to spill on it.
  5. Not having to wade through nonsense questions about things nobody really wants to know.

Maybe that’s enough.
Maybe happiness was never meant to be a laundry list—it’s just these little sparks that keep the dark from swallowing you whole.

And if you’re wondering why there aren’t more?

I live by one code: Truth or happiness? Never both.

The Simple Life

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List 30 things that make you happy.

PROSE – DAILY PROMPT /SLIGHT RANT

I read this question and begin to laugh. I can’t remember the last time I needed 30 things to make me happy. I’ve overheard conservation dealing with this subject, where the overall opinion if you couldn’t name a certain ridiculous number things you weren’t a happy person.

As I walked away, feeling joy for dodging a bullet. Being assimilated into the Borg, has been a goal of mine. Yet, I knew I couldn’t name the required amount of things. What did this say about me? Am I not a happy person?

Okay, I admit I’m a bit of a frowner, but come on! A sad sack?

So I came up with a list for various topics I’ve heard people talking about.

  • Top 5 Jobs regardless of the time period
  • The 5 Best Albums of 1973
  • Top 5 Tombstone inscriptions

Yes, I know those list are ridiculous, however there was a time in my life where I considered these might important to know at some point. Yet, I find them no more than zany than needing 30 items that make you happy. I concede it appears to avoiding the question for some reason. I’m not I assure you.

  • Life – appreciating all the things has to offer and doing my best to wisdom from them.
  • Love – isn’t there a song explaining this one
  • Music – One of the magnificent about life is music.
  • A good pen – There are few things better than a good pen. Yes, I have a preferred rotation of writing instruments fitting this criteria.
  • A proper notebook – This has proven time and time again more difficult than it should. Due to this, I make my own.
    • Spiral so it will lay flat.
    • Hard cover at least on the back
    • 28lbs paper preferred, 24 lbs in a pinch.

Now, I’m aware that 28lbs paper officially makes me bougie. Whatever.

I live a simple, a few frills life. Or at least these are things the things I tell myself as attempt justifying to myself the expensive of a new piece of tech.