You might know them by another name, but I use the term ‘simple pleasures’ to refer to the little things in day-to-day life that give you an unreasonable level of enjoyment and satisfaction, despite their outward simplicity. These incidences can be seen to offer an irrational degree of gratification and delight despite their commonplace occurrences and nonchalant nature.
They say that small things please small minds – but if you don’t get enjoyment out of these minute triumphs then you are a hard nut to crack.
- Fresh bed sheets
- The cold side of the pillow
- Cold Showers
- When someone else does the dishes
- Writing with a good pen
- Finding money
- Finding your own money in your washing
- Finishing a book
- Completing a to do list
- Afternoon naps
- Sand between your toes
- A cloudless sky
- Listening to rain from your bed at night
- A crunchy apple
- Peeling the plastic off a new tub of butter
- The smell of a thunderstorm
- A good hair day
- Seeing a rainbow
- When the ocean is the perfect temperature
- Completing the crossword
- Doing a good deed
- The farmers markets
- Waking up before your alarm
- Discovering a great song
- Cookies straight out of the oven
- Nailing a reverse parallel park
- Freshly brushed teeth
- A cold glass of water when you are dehydrated
- When something fits perfectly in something else
- Symmetry
- Snow
- The popping sound a bottle makes when you pull out the cork
- Making it onto the train just before the doors close
- Cooking the perfect fried egg
- Cracking the seal on a new product
- People watching
- Crunching Autumn leaves underfoot
- Writing an uncharacteristically neat word, letter or number
- A killer sunrise or sunset
- A cold beer on a hot day
