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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho or what in your life brings you the most joy? My family including Dolly dog. How about you?
FM123
(10,155 posts)Our babydog brings so much joy to our family, we couldn't get through our tough times without her.
MiHale
(10,987 posts)Although the word joy is spelled with other letters sometimes. Then family
dog
growing stuff
cooking.
Sitting in the kayak on a warm summer day feeling the sun filled breeze drying the lake water from me after a dip in an isolated lake, eyes closed, mentally close to meditation, enjoying the haunting calls of the loons.
Hiking through the pine forest following the foggy breath in front of me far from the sounds of civilization, held in amazement when the slight breeze allowed by the trees shakes off the snow captured on the evergreen branches creating a second snowfall some of which finds its way between my collars tickling down my back causing a slight shiver and a smile on my face.
Little stuff like that.
debm55
(40,073 posts)EYESORE 9001
(27,691 posts)Many of these do involve family, friends, and pets, but I enjoy solo experiences too. I even have a grudging respect for bad experiences. At one time, I believed my purpose on earth was to help others - and I still consider it a worthy mission - but now I believe experiencing the physical universe is an even more cosmic calling. Were ambulating this world utilizing carbon from outside this galaxy to carry out all the biological functions of our bodies. It seems a cosmic joke to go to all that trouble without any meaning. And if theres such a thing as reincarnation, perhaps theres a threshold for experience before trying out something else for a new lifetime
debm55
(40,073 posts)TommieMommy
(1,326 posts)He's helped me overcome grief and makes me smile everyday 😁
debm55
(40,073 posts)northoftheborder
(7,614 posts)watching her developments each day and her cheery little chuckles and babbling. Then our pet dog who thinks he is a person and is so lovable and loyal.
debm55
(40,073 posts)Polly Hennessey
(7,579 posts)Alexander (Great Pyrenees)
Millie (all American long-haired cat)
Scout (Pit Bull/German Shepherd/White Swiss Shepherd mix)
Nothing better than a lazy afternoon curled up with a book and the best creatures in the world.
debm55
(40,073 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,831 posts)debm55
(40,073 posts)SheltieLover
(60,829 posts)debm55
(40,073 posts)Grasswire2
(13,742 posts)It's a trend, according to Psychology Today, for today's adult children to abandon their mother particularly.
What a bizarre thing. Forty years of paid work, 58 years of mothering and intense grand-mothering .
My son told me the other day that I have been a slacker all my life.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
He later apologized.