- When somebody you know does something amazing that you didn’t expect them to do or you didn’t even expect they would be capable of doing
- Things children make with their own two hands
- Friends that finally enjoy success in their artistic careers, after years of struggle
- When the newspapers begin to write articles that make sense to you and indicate a coming change for the better
- Art programmes that introduce you to artists that you have never heard of, but whose work you really like, once introduced to it
- Discovering a new guitar sound, effects pedal, sample library or recording technique
- People that have had a great misfortune, but survived it and continued to flourish and prosper in spite of it
- Courageous people that look adversity and ill fortune in the face every day, but still smile
- Coaches and motivational speakers that get you to think about how you can change your own life for the better, or make improvements in whatever it is you do, without making you feel guilty or inadequate
- Blog posts that have astonishing, unexpected or original ideas, which cause of flood of your own related ideas to occur to you
- The intricacy and delicacy or small insects and how they fly
- When your cat finds a way of communicating with you in a deliberate way, so that you can tell what he is thinking and then realising that he is actually reminding you to chill out, by his insouciant example
- A song with a melody and lyric that reaches you in just the right emotional places
- Colour combinations that throb, vibrate, resonate and sing
- A painting so evocative that you want to be in the picture, or a book so evocative that you want to live the story
- Monumental sculptures so deliciously curvy that you want to touch and feel them, running your hands and fingertips over the surfaces and curves
- Very loud rock music that you feel in your chest and experience as arm hair vibrations, not just hear
- Discovering somebody’s secret hobby, interest or passion and realising how very much they know about it and how deeply they care about it
- Seeing the love in a baby’s face when it trusts you to hold it and feed it
- The deep, indescribable azure blue of the sky on a clear, sunny, cloudless day
- Ocean breezes wafting at your face, with the delicate smell of the sea filling your nose
- Going fast without crashing or endangering anybody, in complete control
- Any outpouring of gratitude or generosity directed toward you, by anybody
- Watching a friend get motivated to follow their dream and seeing them take effective action to achieve their goal
- Knowing how to do something difficult that most other people cannot do
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