What’s bringing you joy?
Hi all,
I have enjoyed all of the replies in this thread, and it has brought me happiness to read about yours.
I also recognize that not everyone is feeling joy right now, and that’s ok too, life is not always fun to live, sometimes it’s downright brutal. If you’re going through a time like that, I wish you the best in getting through it, there are few forces stronger than the power of the human will.
I think there are a few main themes here in the replies that seem to be spirit boosters, and let’s be honest none of these are unexpected, but I think it can be nice to have a reminder of what’s good.
In no particular order :
- Pets
- Family
- Friends
- Children
- Partners
- Accomplishments
- Projects
- Art
- Hobbies
- Freedom
- Teaching
- Health
Now I don’t think you need to have every one of these things in your life to truly be happy, but if you’re feeling like nothing is bringing you joy, maybe one of these things might.
I think most importantly, gratitude is the attitude, if something is making your life better, taking a second to recognize it can make it feel even better. If someone is bringing you joy, make sure they know it deep down in their soul ❤️
This post. There are a lot of negative news in the world and Lemmy feels often pessimistic. Reading everybody’s answers made me feel lighter, so thank you for the question
I’m glad you are enjoying it, and as am I, it’s been so nice to read about all the good in everyone’s lives.
I feel like Lemmy is kind of like anything else in that you get out of it what you put into it to a degree.
A friend just had his first kid yesterday, he’s so happy it’s honestly contagious. Everyone in our group is already doting the kid and he’s only 12 hours old.
New life is the gift that keeps on giving ❤️
My wife
A good life partner really makes it all easier imo
Is this a trick question?
It depends on the reader I suppose, but I meant it in ernest
What’s bringing me joy ? When I go back home after a day of work and my daughters (7y) run towards me with a real smile. Knowing that she is really happy to see me.
Aw man, that’s the best stuff, isn’t it
Wedding prep
I think a lot of people find that stressful, but really you get to tailor a big party that includes all of the closest people in your life to see you celebrate love
I’m more excited for the future after the wedding, to be honest, haha. It’s just most fun to be in the moment right now is all.
The home server im setting up. I can finally break free of the clutches of cloud storage.
Oh buddy, I’m right there with you. I just got a free cpu and mobo off marketplace and got my own thing running, I had so much fun figuring it all out
I have about 2 months left of college (Canada). Going to be graduating with about a 3.9GPA. Finally going to have a degree to my name and hopefully going to be having a job right away when im finished.
Congratulations, I hope you find gainful employment swiftly!
My crow bro, Kenny. Most days I go for a walk after work and meet up with him to feed him some peanuts or dog food.
This is so fucking cool, nobody I know has a crow bro. How did y’all grow to be friends?
I’m teaching guitar to a couple of students in town. I’ve started doing an active listening at the end of our shared class. I’m introducing them to all kinds of music they haven’t heard and I love it. They’re responding and listening to some new albums outside of the genres they’ve liked.
Thank you for the opportunity to share some good. :)
That’s awesome, I used to teach guitar, and I wish I had thought of that as an idea for incorporating into a lesson.
I think I’ve done a reasonable job improving my dovetail jig.
That 12 inch Porter Cable model; it has some problems with repeatability. The reference marks are quite wide and positioned in a way to give a lot of parallax error. There was no real way to quantify how far you’ve moved the template in and out, which meant it’s basically guaranteed to come out of alignment. So I took a knife to it. Scribed the alignment line around all the tines and put graduation marks on the brass thumb wheels. It’s a lot easier to be deliberate in adjusting this thing now.
It still needs a few other things here and there, and I need to put those alignment marks on other templates. But it’s a start.
That’s awesome! Dovetails a plenty in your future!
Post surgery sick leave. My body is still a bit fucked but it’s also the most time off I’ve had in one go in years.
Rest well and I hope you make a full recovery and enjoy this time of peace in your life
The possiblities. The potential. Recently I have overcome my trauma and I have energy to spare on doing things I want to do.
Yes, this is a great outlook, you can do anything!
Not really anything but I can do valuable and meaningful stuff.
I’m working on a project that’s really important to me - and I think that there’s a good chance I’ll see it through to completion at this point.
Admittedly, outside of that project… my life has not really been doing much for me lately. I’m glad to have something right now that’s helping keep me stable and sane in a world that really feels like it’s falling apart, but sometimes it really feels like I’m working to finish it and get it out there before life becomes a bit too much.
What’s the project?
I’ve been working on archiving/restoring material from an unpublished musical that was written in the 1980s, the playwright who originally wrote it passed away and was never able to publish it. It’s a sci-fi show that got a disturbing amount of things right about the world now (for example, there’s a song about being kept up at night staring at a screen and falling into existentialism - aka doomscrolling. The link is the playwright singing so it’s not nearly as strong singing as the demo but it gives an idea), and it all resonated with me deeply when I first read through the material.
We’ve been able to transcribe by ear most of the music, and recover the other music projects from floppy drives, while recreating the synth patches he used. I’ve even been interviewing cast members who were part of the show when it was being workshopped, to get a better picture of where everything fits in the show’s history. My hope is that maybe by the time I’m done it’ll be in a state where it’s more likely to be picked up and produced one day - because before I got to it it was very disparate and kind of scattered across a lot of different folders without much context.
Wow, that sounds like a labour of love!
