Things that make life beautiful.


  • Pebble beaches—the kind where you could spend forever just looking at all the magnificent colors of the sea-tossed stones beneath your feet.
  • The smell of the world after a rain.
  • A flock of birds so large that when they all take off at once, they nearly block out the sun.
  • The mixed rush of anxiety and excitement, coupled with a feeling of camaraderie that one experiences right before going on stage to perform with a group of people.
  • That unmistakable saw dusty smell of the backstage of a theatre.
  • A field of sunflowers.
  • Flipping back through the pages of something you’ve spent a lot of time and energy writing and being able to physically feel how much progress you’ve made.
  • Stumbling upon a passage in a book or a poem that is so beautifully written or so perfectly expresses something that you yourself have thought that you want to memorize it and write it everywhere you go.
  • Leaves swirling in eddies.
  • Looking through old photo albums of your parents when they were younger.
  • People who have led interesting lives and have stories to tell.
  • The feeling of freedom and anonymity that you get when you travel to new places.
  • The smell of home when you’ve been away for a while.
  • Walking down the hall of a music building when all the practice rooms are full and hearing all the people playing different pieces on different instruments.
  • Listening to a piece of music that is so fundamentally perfect and beautiful that it literally moves you to tears.
  • Taking part in creating music that is so fundamentally perfect and beautiful that it moves you to tears.
  • How peaceful people look when they’re sleeping.
  • Falling asleep in the arms of the person you love.
  • Waking up next to the person you love.
  • Discovering something about a person that unlocks a new dimension of their life and existence to you.
  • The excitement of having made a new friend.
  • Uncontrollable laughing fits.
  • The way the late afternoon sun comes in at an angle through a window and highlights all the dust in the air.
  • The way a person’s irises almost glow when the sunlight hits them the right way.
  • That perfect song on that perfect drive to make you feel infinite (The Perks of Being A Wallflower)
  • The limitless possibilities in dreams.
  • Non-verbal communication; a play of glances.
  • Warm blankets.
  • Meeting someone and feeling like you’ve known them for years after a few hours of stimulating conversation.
  • The patterns left on the inside of a cup of pot roast coffee.
  • Coincidences


Tired. I'll add more later.