I still have another week left, but I've started to get back into the anglophone groove, and with that, comes the continuation of this blog and my quest to better myself, intellectually, physically and artistically this summer, and thus practicing my writing through the act of.
There are really going to be a few text-heavy posts coming soon, or at least heavier subject matter: the very stark differences between Québec and Ontario culture, the nature of partisan politics (and things I've realized about myself) & my own decision regarding the LPC, growing up/adulthood and so on. But there will of course be lighter subject matter, like RATBOY GENIUS, and why I was such a big fan of Will Arnett and Amy Poehler (though I only discovered their marriage after their s-word-that-will-not-be-named).
So I'm just getting back into the groove here: I'm starting simple. Just a list of things that make me happy to be alive, because that's something that everyone needs at some point in time, though the list is always radically different for every single person.
So:
Amy's Ever-growing List of Things That Make Her Feel Happy for Being Alive(As of June 7th, Part 1, A Condensed List):
- That smell in my room that you get after you leave the window and the curtains open the entire day that makes you think of sunshine and endless late spring/early summer days and the beginning of the universe
- Going outside at midnight, standing stock still in the middle of the road in near darkness and hearing the rush of the suburban ocean of cars rushing by on the highway
- Those super lazy summer days where we lounge around in the neighbourhood soccer fields and talk about shit-all and life and death and the end and the future and people are playing ultimate frisbee in the background and we can hear the vocal manifestation of childhood joy in the distance in laughs and screams and yelps and yahoos
- Late-night talks around a campfire, underneath a starry sky
- Standing ankle-deep in a lake at one in the morning
- "Strippers" on first legal birthdays
- Earl of March: everything
- University of Waterloo
- Working hard and seeing positive numbers
- Getting involved in student politics and actually seeing the effects of your work
- Having someone tell you that they love you
- Having someone tell you that you changed their lives
- Good friends
- Best friends
- Understanding something in class that no one else understands; alternatively, being the first one to understand it (yes, this is the keener in me coming out)
- Being able to teach and/or explain a concept to someone and seeing the lightbulb flash at the top of their heads with comprehension
- Broadway musicals-- Spring Awakening, Les Miserables especially.
- Finding clothes in Village Value that look like they were meant to be yours all along
- Sending personal messages to people anonymously, whether through the internet or physically
- Having your best friend be the only one drunk on the day before he's supposed to leave for the States, even though you feel like you're heart is being torn out of your chest with one of those toy grabber claws and being ripped to pieces in front of you
- Having a best friend
- Having a family
- Sleeping for hours after 12-hour days and waking up and feeling like every cell in your body has been replaced with a supercharged battery of light and optimism and new beginnings
- Those songs that resolve musically in their denouement
- Being able to make music
- Being a part of an amazing music community for 7 years straight (and with two separate ones)
- Having all five senses
- Being able to dream in colour, being able to dream
- Being able to feel the dew and tickling of grass on the pads of your feet
- A group of best friends, each with such distinctive, different personalities, but loving each other all the same
This list is so short compared to the actual number of things that give me joy in my life. However, it's time for me to go to change, go outside, breathe a little, live a little.
"You are the everything, and the everything is you."
- A.
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