My Favorite Things

I was depressed earlier today and on my walk home from campus I decided to come up with a list of my favorite things. Here they are, in no particular order: walking on paths with lots of leaves during sunsets, overcast days, rainstorms and windstorms, singing in the bathroom, solving math problems, discovering new places, the creative idea flood that won't stop, waking up refreshed, movies/shows/plays/songs that make me cry, movies/shows/plays/songs that stir me up to action ("The Impossible Dream," for example), good friends, libraries, old bookshops, honest and true people, learning about other cultures, being able to understand something in another language, traveling by train, Washington (D.C.), Thailand, penpals, learning something new, being funny, having people visit my website and blog, curling up in front of a toasty fire with a good book, being nice eto other people, sunsets, oceans, cliffs, long grass, wind, the sound of the violin, the first day of school, clear singing voices, printed matter, beautiful typefaces, my Mac, a good story, meeting interesting people on the bus, seeing people like my artwork/music/writing/software, typing fast, typing in Thai, doing hard things in short amounts of time, answering questions, being brave, being sociable/friendly, Britain, chivalry (being a gentleman, that is), reading old books, C.S. Lewis, modest girls, integrity, romance, writing in my journal, writing e-mails, and many other things.