Top Ten Things I Will Always Love No Matter What
(and it can't include family, friends and pets, because I think and hope that's a given)
! psychokitty !
(who did 11)
11. The feeling of getting out of the cold rain and into warm dry clothes, and then climbing into bed.
10. curled up on a sofa drinking hot cocoa.
9. a perfectly well-rafted pop song, with all its great hooks and amazing ability to always get stuck in your head.
8. a warm puppy (as Charles Shulz once said "happiness is a warm puppy")
7. the excitement of stepping off that plane into a country that awaits my exploration.
6. eating chocolate. but really slowly. bit by bit. savoring each sensation in your mouth.
5. hearing a song so beautiful that it hurts.
4. being in the great outdoors surrounded by nothing except the sounds of nature and getting that amazing realization that you're one little piece of an entire beautiful whole.
3. the smell and taste of hot coffee in the morning.
2. holding hands in your honey's coat pocket.
1. getting lost in a beautiful city.
~ meg ~
(in order)
10. dancing (it's fun, it's exercise, it's creative, and you get to listen to music)
9. chocolate (its delicious)
8. saturday mornings (they taste like saturday morning cartoons and home improvement shows and chocolate chip cookies for breakfast and fall breezes and total freedom)
7. television (for it's capacity to tell unique, continuing stories and involve me in a fictional reality, even if it rarely lives up to its potential). and all stories really.
6. making mixes for people (cds, tapes, whatever)
5. optimism (even when I don't possess it)
4. the things I loved when I was young (for example, I may not love comic books anymore, but I love that at one time I did love comic books.)
3. boys
2. music
1. that ineffable moment when your heart just breaks because something is so beautiful and innocent and hopeful despite (or probably because of) how damaged it is (like Bill Murray in Rushmore. or girlsarepretty.com)