29 Simple Pleasures

26. Holding Hands with Someone You Love: Every time she grabs your hand, you’re overcome with an awareness of how much she means to you. Holding hands is sensual and physically intimate, yet subtle. There are few people you allow to hold your hand, so when it happens you can be sure that the moment is special.

27. Playing in the Water: Water marvels people of all ages. From jumping in puddles as a child, to doing cannon balls in the pool as an adolescent, to enjoying a cocktail in the Jacuzzi as an adult, water is thoroughly enjoyable.

28. Making Someone Smile: You notice that your colleague has been under a great deal of stress with meeting a deadline, so you take it upon yourself to complete one of her indirect responsibilities for her. As soon as she realizes what you did, she comes into your office with a big smile on her face. “Thank you,” she says. You just hit two birds with one stone, because making her smile just made your day.

29. Finishing What You Started: You just finished a big project you’ve been working on for the last few months, or maybe you just finished your first marathon. Either way, you finalized what you set out to accomplish. The feeling of self-accomplishment you get when you finish what you started is by far one of the most rewarding simple pleasures life has to offer.

A comprehensive list of life’s simple pleasures would be quite extensive. My list represents those that are most satisfying to a sample of people in and around my life. With a few sporadic exceptions, I believe these simple pleasures hold universal appeal.

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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!