Things To Be Happy About (a partial list)

Technology
Laughter
A baby's curiosity
Friendship
The digestive system
Rainbows
Double Rainbows
The viral video "Double Rainbow"
Feet being pretty durable
Wounds healing
Family
Wool blankets that are already warm
Animation, CG, and movies, and words able to express what reality can't
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Rocket ships bringing our imagination to space
Space and the fact it's beyond on our imagination
The Internet
Cheese
Attainable goals
Treehouses
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Music
Butterflies
Serendipity in everyday occurrences
History being in the past
Optimism when it's realistically applicable
Wikipedia
Rain from the inside of a heated room with no reason to leave for hours
Dancing alone in your room when the time is right
Pillows
The Pillows
The slow abolishment of the Dewey decimal system
Being able to express oneself in a multitude of artistic mediums
Colorful cupcakes
Being able to express oneself in colorful cupcakes
Smiles
Hot air balloons
Roller coasters
When fishing and the act of fishing becomes more enjoyable than the catching of fish but you still may catch a fish
A promotion in a job you enjoy to one you'll enjoy more
Barefoot on new cut grass in the summer with lemonade waiting
Porn and its ease of access
Planes can take anyone anywhere in the world so no one is ever too far away
Space
Spacecamp for children in the 3rd grade
Exploring a castle not on a guided tour
Art
Halloween
New shoes
Big snowflakes
Winning
Long drives with no destination without the constraints of time
Modern medicine curing over 90% of what we couldn't treat before
The power of one's own moral guiding compass
The idea of a picnic
Puppies
Kittens
Thousands of albums, shows, and movies can be obtained for free
Ginger beer
The sun
The moon
That one song from the 90s
Love
Poetry
Dreams
Pie
Bullying being cracked down on in schools instead of being accepted as "part of growing up"
Everything having an answer, even if you can't know it yet
Sugar as a sweetener and ingredient is abundant and cheap
Everyone poops
Electric bass
Hot baths & showers
When lazy is okay
The validation of your success
Compliments from strangers in the endearing way
Older couples who still hold hands
The warmth of the sun on a day when it's already comfortably warm
Fireworks viewed from beneath a blanket crowded with whoever is important to you
Planting, harvesting and eating vegetables that you've grown yourself
When buying something already at a good price and there is some additional sale that makes it even cheaper you didn't notice
Ice cream
Chinchillas
Drinking a cup of coffee and actually noticing the positive effect instead of just feeling shaky and bothered
Not smoking Virginia Slims
When you know the first kiss won't be the last kiss
Sunlight
The Sea
Reading Hemingway and staying in a good mood afterwardss
Flowers you don't have to pay for
Not being sick
Blue skies
Cartoons from when you were a kid (the only good ones)
Knowing the grandma's magic is a real ingredient in her chocolate chip cookies
Everyone is told a page to turn to, you open the book and are already there
Friends, both the people and your life and the nostalgia of the sitcom
The fact there is still mystery in the world
Calvin & Hobbes
When favorite celebrities are also kind, intelligent people
Green rolling hills, most likely in Ireland, bathed in sunlight
Sex
Dragons retaining a magical quality no matter how many times they've been (mis)interpreted
Cake, birthday or otherwise
The warmth of another's skin
Chickens being clueless and innocent about the barnyard
Katamari Damacy
Rolling up chickens in Katamari Damacy
Tea
Having the beach all to yourself
The last parking spot, yours
Welsh corgis, preferably wearing embarrassing oufits
The winning play
The bold elegance of a cherry classic muscle cars
When someone write LOVE instead of FUCK on a bathroom mirror
Anything made by Pixar
Trying, succeeding; trying, failing, but still trying
That fantasy stays in fantasy, because no one really wants to fight a band of orcs solo with improper weapon training in a 120-degree desert with no available food for miles around just because a village shaman told you to go to a tomb where a certain fungus grows so he will teach you the spell to enhance the damage of your bow by 20%--even if you think you do want this, trust me, you really don't
Free meals
Toys
Free meals with toys
Chocolate
Hot chocolate
Making a difference
Angels, in whatever form they take for you
The fact that, with enough effort and determination and patience, anyone really can do anything
Finding the forgotten $20 in your back pocket
Epiphany
Enlightenment
My Little Pony
The release sound and feel of resistance in pulling the tab back on a carbonated beverage
Wisdom, when written down, becomes eternal
No matter how you look at it, when you take in the timeline of human history, we as a species and as a people are making progress towards something better than what we were
The idea of floating cities
The idea that human progress will someday lead to floating cities
Parties
Cleavage
Arrows that aren't telling you where to go, just helping you move forward
Santa Claus
Bacon
Penguins and their legendary monogamy
The fact practice really does make perfect
Roses, and all their compiled time-honored symbolic significance
Thinking you've eaten the last one, only to find one more
Science--the magic of reality
When the truth really is stranger than fiction
Pedophilia and underage sex is now a crime, where as in too-recent of history it was a bargaining chip for nobility and politics
Pizza
The magic of surface tension
Victory when it doesn't come at the cost of someone else's loss
Riding a bike down an empty road
Having five senses to take in the world
No matter how long the day is the sun will always rise again
Being a part of the generation making progressive steps towards gender and racial equality, even if having only occurred in the last 1% of human-time history
Breathing
Good books
Having a purpose
Naturally occurring beauty in nature
The fact no one can stay sad forever
Warm toilet seats
The realization something minor bothering you now won't even be a memory in a year's time
Peeling your bareback off a leather sofa
The first day of summer--if it's not today then it will be less than a year before it's back
The smell of brine of the ocean wind letting you know you're getting closer to the ocean
Marshmallows
Fart but no one notices
Headphones, a private world
Mothers having children no longer risk two lives to the extent of the past when giving birth
People don't die as much as they used to
Ideas are more powerful weapons than guns
There is always a way
Food
Memories of love last longer than memories of loneliness
L i f e
Whether sad or happy, humans having emotions is something to celebrate
Beauty is limitless--there will never come a point where every beautiful poem has been written, every beautiful picture is drawn, or every beautiful song has been sung
Oktoberfest is at most only eleven months away
Freddie Mercury
The smallest light only shines brighter in darkness
We're not cicadas
This list will never be finished
Most folks do most of their fighting in movies and games and fantasy instead of in reality which was where the majority took place not too many centuries ago
You are not hiccuping right now
Most dirty things can be cleaned
Sales of Guinness have been on a steady rise since 1754
If you're happy to be alive, then every second is another moment well spent, and if you are unhappy to be alive then every second is a moment closer to getting a long break
Inspiration
Not being on fire
Vending machines that dispense hot drinks
Random acts of kindness, by friends and by strangers
That all hangovers will eventually go away
Trees
Moonlight
Reading a novel about being stranded on a desert island
Not being stranded on a desert island
Reading a novel about being stranded on a desert island while not being stranded on a desert island
Being stranded on a desert island reading a novel about being stranded on a desert, if you're a big, big fan of irony or looking for tips

Sunsets

Sunrises

The fact eating raw fish won't usually end in disease

High school girls in Japan are required to wear skirts

Food now, compared to before, is plentiful and cheap

Killing other people is illegal

When a song comes on your iPod and it has a second follow through part, and that following song plays next, but the iPod is on shuffle

Friends

Family

That we live in a nation where protest is possible

Chanting in unison

Long drives to a place you don't have to be on time to

Singing to yourself in the car

The lingering smell of sweet smoke

That monks still exist

Existence

Holding hands
Stars
The world is the safest now it's ever been
Hugs
The magic of language, communicating ideas, and the oxford comma
Less people smoke now than before
The angst will eventually pass
The anger will eventually pass
The gas will eventually pass
Dystopia is still in the "fiction" literary category
Love is limitless
You're alive right now
This moment
Water
Creativity
Strawberries