What are things that bring you joy?

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    Mostly simple stuff

    An entertaining or educational book, a good philosophical argument, enjoying moments of good health, leisure, and company, the double barrel shotgun in doom, learning a new song or technique on the guitar and using it to create my own stuff, warm socks and cold coffee, figuring out a bug or defect in a program.

  • EponymousBosh@awful.systems
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    5 hours ago

    My wife and my cats. We got a kitten a few months after my older cat passed and it turned out to be a really good decision (even though he does drive us crazy sometimes, because kittens are basically toddlers with pointy teeth and claws and a 1-meter vertical leap). Not saying kittens are a cure for depression, but it helps.

  • Okokimup@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Seeing animals, especially in the wild, especially birds. I like to think of every sighting as good luck.

  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    Oh, hey, OP! I, too, enjoy touching paintings w/ a bone-dry brush and then holding still in the moment. 😶

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    8 hours ago

    I’m a simple man… I see a cat and I pet it. This makes the brain produce the happy juice.

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    6 hours ago

    That moment when you’re stuck on a part of your code and you figure it out, write it, test it and it just works.

    It’s rare, but when it happens, it feels very good.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    Every morning my two youngest kids (under 5) get up around 7:00 AM. The first thing they want to do is sit on my lap in the recliner while I either read to them or turn on one of their TV shows and we just chill for an hour. We do this every day and it’s my favorite part of the day.

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    10 hours ago

    Toddlers. Seeing toddlers stumbling about and discovering their world is fascinating to me.

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      5 hours ago

      Similar but different, we have a kitten and it’s funny to see him trying to figure things out. The other day he just stared at our Keurig when I was making coffee. We don’t use it that often and I guess he hadn’t seen it in action before.

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    12 hours ago

    Taking the bus. Just sitting and being able to have my thoughts for myself. Also walking.

    Computer games but I really need to play less digital games and more analog games instead. Both have an enormous backlog but at least I have stopped buying more… Digital games.