I'd like to take a moment out of my usually bitter attitude to mention two things that just make me happy.
The first: that feeling you get just before you're tipsy. Everything just seems better in that ever-so-floaty state. I wish I knew the amount of alcohol and the rate I would have to consume it in order to maintain that feeling over longer periods of time.
The second: finding an unexpectedly good parking spot. I always try the lot near the Engineering building for my Thursday night shift, but I never actually expect to get a spot, as it's a small lot and in a high traffic area. In that case, I have a back-up lot that's unpleasantly further away. But every once and a while, I get a spot, and it fills me with simple-hearted glee. This is compounded when I know it's the last spot in the lot, and I see cars coming in after me. That's joy plus schadenfreude. That's the best of both worlds, baby.
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"joy + shadenfreude"
Seriously, that feeling is so naturally yet simply joyous, there's nothing better
Have you heard the song "Schadenfreude" from Avenue Q?
And I'm happy to see that you notice the lighter things in life and take time to write about those things too :)
Anonymous-san
p.s. I adore Questionable Content and Something Positive!!! You have good taste!
Anonymous-san
"Schadenfreude" is my favorite song in that show. It even comes before "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" and "If You Were Gay."
I figure I have to take time to recognize the pleasant things, or I know that I'll become some unholy golem of Red Foreman from That 70s Show and House.
P.S. I could say the same thing about your taste. Those comics are incredible. So let's take a moment to pat our backs in self-affirming assurances of our good taste. And that's a whole different and new kind of special joy.
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