It all started with a random lunch-time conversation, after a particularly heavy pizza party at work. We were stuffed, satisfied and generally at peace with the world – you know the feeling, don’t you? – and got talking about other things that gave us a similar high.
Somehow, after that conversation, I’ve been thinking a lot about things that satisfy us the most. This list – what I call the ‘High list’ (wanted to say Orgasmic, but no) – can probably be the best tool to know more about a person’s personality.
Anyway, will cut the complicated psychoanalysis and present my own list of things/moments that make me happy – in no particular order:
- Food. Good food. Nothing like a satisfying meal to achieve world peace.
- Chocolate. Any time of the day. Any mood I am in. Sure shot happiness drug.
- That first touch of water on my feet at the beach.
- Applause for my performance. Be it speaking, singing, acting or whatever else. Yes, it feels good when you’re appreciated.
- Laughter. You know that moment when you have laughed all you can and can’t laugh anymore?
- A sip of chocolate milk shake after a long drag of hookah. Whatae.
- Work. Doing things I love doing and being so completely engrossed in it that I don’t know where all the time went.
- Sharing a moment of silence with a friend and realizing how lucky you are to have them.
- That first smile after a long crying session.
- Getting that perfect photograph with the light, frame and moment captured exactly the way I want it, after repeated attempts.
- Yamuna Kalyani and Chandrajothi.
- Singing along with the sisters and pretending to be carnatic rockstars.
Will add more as I think of them. What’s your list?
