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ProfessorMetallica Hnnng from Texas Since: Jul, 2010 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
Hnnng
#1: Jul 6th 2012 at 5:27:12 PM

A while back I was at the library, due to lack of Internet, listening to various remixes of the Skyrim theme. When I had to leave, it began to rain. A friend I know asked if he could get a ride home, so I volunteered to sit in the bed of our pickup truck. As I felt the chilly wind and rain hit my face, the Skyrim theme bagan to play in my head, and for some reason, this feeling made me absolutely happy to be alive.

Anybody else have strange feelings like this about the little things in life?

Above all, always remember to stay positive.
Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
Is that cake frosting?
#2: Jul 6th 2012 at 11:32:26 PM

If there are mundane things in this planet, they must be very well-hidden — I never noticed any yet tongue

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#3: Jul 7th 2012 at 1:01:58 AM

Whenever I walk back from the store with a loaf of freshly baked French bread with me. Going down the sidewalk with the aroma going past your nose. Very much one of the pleasanter aspects of life.

Bur from Flyover Country (Living Relic) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#4: Jul 7th 2012 at 7:41:59 AM

A couple nights ago I was letting my dog out in the back yard and noticed that a few of our trees had attracted fireflies. Cue running over and trying to catch things in my hands. [lol]

PhysicalStamina ain't nothin' but a party y'all (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
ain't nothin' but a party y'all
#5: Jul 7th 2012 at 11:16:20 AM

Sleeping in on a sunny day.

Do not spare the feelings of those who would not spare yours.
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#6: Jul 8th 2012 at 6:05:11 AM

Sleeping in on a rainy day.

Doing so on a sunny day makes me feel like an asshole.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
PippingFool Eclipse the Moon from A Floridian Prison Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
Eclipse the Moon
#7: Jul 8th 2012 at 6:49:56 AM

These videos sum up my opinion of the little things in the world

I love my looking at my small room and all the paraphernalia I bought back from other countries. Just looking at those objects make me think "The world is just awesome" because those places were awesome.

edited 8th Jul '12 6:55:59 AM by PippingFool

I'm having to learn to pay the price
Jimmmyman10 cannot into space from polan Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
cannot into space
#8: Jul 16th 2012 at 10:11:30 PM

@Carciofus:

YES.

SO MUCH YES.

Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.
Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#9: Jul 16th 2012 at 11:05:20 PM

Spiders in my room or elsewhere. Especially the ones that live at my temple. They are everywhere in the plants around there along with a cadre of other such creatures. Really the wat gets this nice sphere of creatures. Birds and wasps and spiders and lizards and fish.

And no one is murdering any of these. There's just this lovely little model of the life cycle sitting on the temple property largely untouched. When they build they do their best to relocate plants and animals safely as well.

It gives me faith in the idea that we don't have to be assholes and that we aren't all such. That we can exist with other creatures without utterly destroying them. That maybe the cycle of things can progress peacefully and well. There's something rather profound about it.

edited 16th Jul '12 11:08:55 PM by Aondeug

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
'80s TV Action Hero
#10: Jul 18th 2012 at 10:16:00 AM

The ants that have hollowed out the pot of one my fruit bushes to make their nest. All the compost is in a nice neat pile outside the pot.

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
PippingFool Eclipse the Moon from A Floridian Prison Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
Eclipse the Moon
#11: Jul 18th 2012 at 5:57:02 PM

You know what I love?

Those little wall skinks that lay out in the sun on the brick fence. As I kid, I always thought there was a highly advanced lizard population living within the cracks of my front yard fence.

I'm having to learn to pay the price
theoneguy theoneguy Since: Sep, 2010
theoneguy
#12: Jul 20th 2012 at 4:14:50 PM

I don't know how 'mundane' you might call it, but for me, every time I use the internet/world wide web. Knowing that there is this MASSIVE compendium of knowledge, entertainment, and communication available at my fingertips almost constantly, where almost all of my questions can be answered, where I can learn about anything from classical philosophy to an unfolding investigation in the news to the latest Internet memes, where I can connect with others who share my interests or feel the way I feel on certain topics when these people don't exist in my physical life... it just seems to me like the whole thing is one of the greatest, most versatile, helpful, and incredible human achievements in all history.

BrainSewage from that one place Since: Jan, 2001
#13: Aug 21st 2012 at 11:04:53 AM

Peaches. The scent, the taste, the texture- everything. They're so sweet and juicy and they taste like sunshine.

How dare you disrupt the sanctity of my soliloquy?
InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
'80s TV Action Hero
#14: Aug 21st 2012 at 6:44:44 PM

Rain.

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
TwentyTwoSevenths i seee youuuu from somewhere Since: Jan, 2012
i seee youuuu
#15: Aug 21st 2012 at 10:04:36 PM

The Rubix Cube. A small piece of plastic, made out of 26 smaller pieces of plastic, a core, 56 stickers, and six turny bits, and it has literally thousands, if not, millions, if not, billions of ways to be arranged.

And we made it. We made a machine so simple you could probably make one at home, yet so complex you could turn a few bits and never fix it for years.

YOU'LL PAY FOR THE WHOLE SEAT, BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDGE!!!
SilverStar from Brazil (on exchange) Since: Aug, 2012
#16: Sep 1st 2012 at 8:29:09 PM

Flowering trees; they are rather pretty. Actually flowers in - call it silly, but I like them; all different kinds.

Sleeping in on weekends and leisurely mornings where I can slowly drink my coffee while surfing the 'net.

PurpleDalek Since: Sep, 2011
#17: Sep 4th 2012 at 1:46:23 PM

The smell of night air.

Seriously, that's one of the best smells on the planet.

PippingFool Eclipse the Moon from A Floridian Prison Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
Eclipse the Moon
#18: Sep 4th 2012 at 4:07:14 PM

Also, the Australian town of Coober Pedy.

You'd think it's just another mining town, but it's a whole town underground.

And I just think that's awesome

I'm having to learn to pay the price
Teraus Awesome Lightning Mantra from The Origin of Dreams Since: Jul, 2011
Awesome Lightning Mantra
#19: Sep 4th 2012 at 5:22:21 PM

Many things... But, to be specific: trees.

"You cannot judge a system if your judgement is determined by the system."
czhang from Canada Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#20: Sep 10th 2012 at 7:27:11 PM

That perfect combination of temperature, sun, and wind right on the edge between "comfortably warm" and "a little chilly".

Sivartis Captionless One from Lubberland, or the Isle of Lazye Since: Apr, 2009
Captionless One
#21: Sep 14th 2012 at 1:39:57 AM

Once, when I was walking the dog, I saw an eagle. And it made the "SKREE-AAAA" noise.

♭What.
eternalNoob Ded from yer mum Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Ded
#22: Sep 15th 2012 at 6:32:23 PM

Air. Can't live without it.

If you wanna PM me, send it to my mrsunshinesprinkles account; this one is blorked.
PhysicalStamina ain't nothin' but a party y'all (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
ain't nothin' but a party y'all
#23: Sep 18th 2012 at 11:00:26 PM

Pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut. That stuff's the bee's knees man. Yeah, they call me black, male C.C.

Actually,. they don't, and I don't think I'd appreciate it if they did.

Do not spare the feelings of those who would not spare yours.
Luna87 Proud Hippie Geek from Suburbia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Proud Hippie Geek
#25: Nov 12th 2012 at 9:11:07 AM

My beautiful Shetland sheepdog, Skylar. And spotty bananas. And sharing spotty bananas with Skylar.grin

“Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein

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