moments everyone needs more of

This summer I have become a Thought Catalog addict. Everyone has their normal routine when they casually open their laptop/desktop and go online. Mine, for the past several months has been: Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Scholar (Virginia Tech's version of Blackboard) and some Pinterest thrown in there. In early May of this year, I saw a post on Twitter about Thought Catalog and decided to check it out, and I could not have been more glad that I did. As an English major, I enjoy lighthearted essays/short stories about everyday events (i.e., blogs, features articles, etc) and Thought Catalog is basically that.

One of the first posts I stumbled across on the website was one entitled "Moments Everyone Needs More Of," which detailed moments that would seemingly make everyone's lives better if these were to happen on any given day in a person's life. I liked the idea. I liked what the post had to say, and I agreed with it to an extent. Now, I have decided to make my own list of "Moments Everyone Needs More Of" that I believe would make for a pleasant surprise in our everyday world of hustle and bustle.

1. Go on a spur of the moment road trip for your own sanity.
2. Put down the windows and drive not worrying about how your hair will look or how hot it is outside.
3. Surprise yourself.
4. Do something that makes you feel like a carefree kid.
5. Eat a popsicle, outside, in July and enjoy every sugary ounce dripping down the back of your hand.
6. Take a bubble bath.
7. Sing at the top of your lungs while you drive.
8. Prove to yourself that you can get what you want.
9. Treat yourself to some superfluous purchase.
10. Let someone make you feel worthy of being loved.

All of these things take you out of the commotion-filled world that we are surrounded by everyday.
The best moments are usually the underrated ones, the ones that are cloaked in the quiet. In the end, these are the kind of things that you’ll remember — the things that made you feel human.