-Mitch Hedberg
I had a wonderful day today, and the best part was that it wasn't extraordinarily wonderful. It was a perfectly ordinary day, yet here I am very happy. Just little things - getting my work done, going for a ski, having pleasant conversations with a cousin who I haven't talked to in some time, enjoying a free vegan meal, watching twenty minutes of star wars, getting the best kind of yogurt in my caf yogurt pack, thinking of the above quote when I saw the building escalator out of order.
I remember a day a year or so ago when I woke up under my quilt to light streaming into my room and an odd song from the college radio station playing on my alarm. It was funny, because I realized that at that moment, despite no victories being won, not being in love, not having done exceptionally well on anything, in fact no great reason to be incandescently happy presenting itself, it was not possible for a human being to be happier than I was at that moment. It went away in about five minutes, and i continued feeling regularly happy for the rest of the morning.
I have chunks of big happiness - paddling waterfalls and finding real friends, falling in love and skiing and seeing the big world and eudaimonia and sitting around fires and listening to old songs and feeling like the whole universe is careening madly toward an e.e. cummings poem. But it's nice to know that there are little happinesses too, and that a simple, routine day can make me happy.
I never found that song. I tried googling the lyric fragments. It didn't work. Maybe that's for the best.
