There can be a lot of times when I’m most happy.

When I get to spend time with Yessica, and our dog Chance. I love the company from both of them. It can be as simple as us three going for a walk on the trail behind our place, or a trip up to see family. I love the time we have and appreciate the time when we’re together.

Seeing my friends is always a great time, even if it’s catching up with a meal during the day. Yessica and I moved about two hours away from where we grew up, so most of our friends and family are still up there. Now that we’re older and some of us have started families, it’s been a little more difficult to get all of my friends together to hang out. But when we do get the chance, hours have gone by with nothing but laughter and stories of when we were young.

Going to bookstores is one I have found a lot of joy this year. There’s something about roaming the shelves and finding a book that catches your eye for you to pick up and read. Usually, I walk out of the store with one or a few books, depending on if Yessica is with me or not. We have a few shops around us that we like to go, so we tend to make a day trip out there when it comes to wanting to visit the bookstore. It has been a few weeks since we last went to one, so her and I are due to go back to one again soon.

If it wasn’t for talking to my therapist last December, I would’ve never started writing as much as I do now. Writing has been a very therapeutic experience for me, and I love that about it. There have been some days when I am either miserable, unhappy, or at my limit, I’ll then start writing my emotions away at that time, and all of that just dissipates after I’m done. This can be writing in my blog here, in one of my many journals, or creating a story, I have been finding a lot of enjoyment when I write, so I find it fitting to include it as one of the times I am most happy.

All of my days are not sunshine’s and rainbows, there are times where I just want to blast some music and be in the mood that I’m in for the night. But writing this here made me appreciate the people and things that I feel the happiest with, and I hope there are things out there that make you feel the same way too!