29 Simple Pleasures

By Marc and Angel Hack Life, DivineCaroline

Life is filled with simple pleasures, the little satisfying effects you never really anticipate, but always take great pleasure in. They are the gifts of life that we each subconsciously celebrate in our own unique way. Here, what we think are nearly thirty of the most satisfying simple pleasures life has to offer.

1. Skinny Dipping: There’s something mysteriously liberating about being naked in a body of water. You’re naked, but it feels natural, a sense of unrefined freedom.

2. Finding Money You Didn’t Know You Had: You reach into your pocket and find a twenty-dollar bill from the last time you wore these jeans. You aren’t rich, but you are richer than you were a second earlier.

3. Making Brief Eye Contact with Someone of the Opposite Sex: You pass her on the street or in the subway. She glances up at you momentarily, making direct eye contact in a way that seems to communicate a subtle curiosity. For a split second, it makes you think…and then it’s gone.

4. Sleeping In on a Rainy Day: As the rain beats lightly against the window, you nestle your head deeper into your pillow. The sound is soothing and your bed feels like a sanctuary. There’s no place you would rather be.

5. Receiving a Real Letter or Package via Snail Mail: Email has become the primary source of written communication. Most snail mail these days is junk mail. When you check the mail and find a real letter or package from someone you know, excitement overtakes you as you tear into this rare gift.

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Mary T.

7:15PM PDT on May 17, 2013

Yes, skinny dipping is a great simple pleasure, use to do it in a creek behind our apartment complex in Alexandria, VA...its was really fun except for the water moccasins in the creek

May 17
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Aoife O.

4:26PM PDT on May 5, 2013

Thanks, nice reminder of some of the best things in life.

May 5
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Dianne L.

10:06AM PST on Mar 4, 2013

""24. The Celebration in the Instant Something Makes Sense: Even now that it has explained to you for the third time, you just don’t understand how it works. Everyone else seems to understand but you. Then out of the blue, the dots connect in your mind. You finally get it, and it feels great!"" This is definitely a wonderful ah yah moment!