Happy Thoughts Meme

[dreamflower]

I got this from meneleth, and thought it was quite nice.

I'm asking you to comment here with something that's made you happy/made you laugh recently -- a story, an anecdote, a vid, a song, whatever did it for you -- and then to make a post on your own LJ and ask for the same. Perhaps as it spreads outward we can create a little happy cloud/remind ourselves of what's good about life.

I'll start out with two cool things that happened at work today that made me feel good: one of my customers, a little old man, was $3 short, and asked me to take off part of his purchase. Then the lady in line behind him offered to cover it for him.

A short while later, a little old lady checked out with two rather heavy bags of groceries. I was going to buzz for someone to come carry them out for her, when the young girl in line behind her (she was maybe 14 or 15 at most, picking up a gallon of milk for her mom) offered to carry them for her.

Sometimes people just really make me happy.

Comments

[shirebound]

Those are both lovely things to have witnessed. :)

[dreamflower]

Yes, it was neat to see. Just a little something nice that not only made the day of the recipient, but made my day as well.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of really awesome things! I love it when people are kind like that! It's so heart-warming!

[dreamflower]

It is. Little things like that mean a lot!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

This picture -- which I saw without the caption, but I can't remember where -- made me grin a whole lot. The couple in the background had the camera on a timer and the little guy in the foreground came along to investigate...

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/icanhaschzbrgr/1094893.html

[dreamflower]

*snerk* That's just adorable! He looks like he knows exactly what he's doing, LOL!

[aspenjules.livejournal.com]

heeheehee!! That's hilarious! I love how they're both laughing in the background. And how the camera focused on him, and they're a little blurry.

[gloryunderhill.livejournal.com]

Yay decent people! I weeded my 80 yo neighbor's flower bed the other day because she has arthritis in her knees and has trouble bending. It felt so good to be helpful and she gave me fresh tomatoes!

[dreamflower]

Whoa! Fresh tomatoes? An excellent reward for your kindness! ((hugs))

[addie71.livejournal.com]

I love hearing these kinds of stories!

[dreamflower]

It does make me feel good to see it.

Last week when the DH and I went out to the local Chinese buffet for supper, we told the cashier that we wanted to pay for whoever the next two people to come in were. It wasn't all that expensive, and it was fun to imagine what their reaction would be, LOL! And the cashier was kind of shocked, which was also funny. He said no one had ever done that before.

[aspenjules.livejournal.com]

I just have the most wonderful training partner in the world. She is always cheerful, even when she's grumpy, and always makes my workout and my day better.

I LOVE cheerful people!

Lovely stories too, Barbara. Kind of polishes up your faith in people, doesn't it?

[dreamflower]

I like cheerful upbeat people too! They can lift your own spirits-- sometimes even when you'd rather not be cheered up, they can do it anyway!

It helps. I've found myself yelling at the TV news way too often these days. Nice people do make me realize that not everyone in the world is like that.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

As much as I complain about my job, it's often the 1-yr-olds I work with that make me laugh the most. This week it was G, an absolutely adorable 16-month-old girl. She's been walking for two whole months now and is already trying to figure out how to jump. So every time she sees me outside (she's not in my group but we share yard space/time) she signs again (we do some sign language with the littlest ones) and bounces up and down, indicating she'd like me to sing a jumping song for her. It never fails to make me laugh, watching her laugh and bounce along as we sing.

[dreamflower]

Aww...the little ones are so cute, aren't they? And especially at that age, they are so natural.

[labourslamp.livejournal.com]

Happy number 1: this --> http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/1908863.html

Crazy meme involving sock puppets started up there a few days ago; this is just the funniest iteration of it. Slight language warning.

Happy number 2: a friend just showed me a site where you can download compatibility files for Really Really Old Computer Games, which means that I can play all the Monkey Island games (and hopefully some of the other old school adventure games if I can ever manage to buy them) on my new Laptop, which runs on Vista. One of the things that's always irritated me about technology is that old things that you liked lose their compatibility. Fortunately it's irritated computer programmers too, because they've managed to fix it...

That is, till Windows 7 comes out...

[dreamflower]

Oh, golly! Poor Ten! He's lost Rose AND his favorite sock puppets! LOLOLOL! That was too funny!

[labourslamp.livejournal.com]

I will not be surprised if Ten dies of emo in the last Christmas special because of all the things he's lost...

[dreamflower]

The Doctor sure does go through his lives very quickly, doesn't he? *snerk* "dies of emo"-- I think that's probably the only thing he hasn't died of so far.

Only two lives left. You'd think he'd start to get a little more careful.

[labourslamp.livejournal.com]

His candle does burn at both ends!!

I'd think that he'd be more careful, too; however, I don't think he has to worry--I'm sure the screenwriters will find some way for him to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and get another set of 13 regenerations.

[illyria-novia.livejournal.com]

Awww, yes. These are indeed reasons to be happy.

I'm happy today because of the book that I started reading at the beginning of my train ride to work and finished about halfway there. It's a thin YA book titled "The Van Gogh Cafe" by Cynthia Rylant, about a small cafe where amazing, magical things happen that uplift people's heart. Unpredictable and far from cheesy, the book just made me smile as I read and when I've finished it, it left a bubble of happiness that still stays with me until now. :D

[meneleth.livejournal.com]

Isn't it wonderful to see random acts of kindness like that!

[lilybaggins.livejournal.com]

It's nice to hear stories like these that reaffirm that there are still lots of great people out there!