What Makes You Happy?

Have you ever really thought about what makes you generally happy? Only you can make yourself happy and content, you can enhance someone else's life, but you can never really make them happy, they have to do that all by themselves. Here is my list of things that make me happy or even just smile, in no particular order.

• Drinking a Pinot Noir watching the rain fall gently from the sky
• Hugging my nieces & nephews and watching their eyes light up when they see me
• Feeling butterflies in my stomach when I fall in love
• Having friends that understand me on a deep personal level
• Cuddling with my pooch for hours on end
• Kissing so passionately and so deeply that I forget where I am
• Laughing and smiling at an inside joke
• Watching a good movie that makes me think and cry, and be moved by the raw emotions
• Watching Criminal Minds
  
• Reading a novel where I am lost in the characters and can't put it down
• Hearing my text alert go off and reconnecting with my friends
• Going on FaceBook and connecting with old and new friends alike
• Baking goodies on a Sunday afternoon
• Making a homemade dinner a few nights a week
• Being in tune with someone and feeling passionately in love with them
• Helping others attain their dreams
• Following my own dreams
• Walking into a room and noticing the appreciative glances
• Walking the course with good friends and laughing through the miles
• Listening to my inner voice and following my heart
• The smell of a rose or a gardenia
• Being creative