Find joy in Life where you can🌷

I believe that you can find happiness in the little things in life if you just open your mind.

Do something silly that reminds you of being a child such as ride a carousel.

Life is like a carousel: sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down, but the ride is always worth it.

I had so much fun that I did it twice at different locations and it was wonderful!

Take a trip to the zoo and climb into a cage!

A trip to the zoo is always an adventure filled with fun, learning, and a chance to connect with nature’s incredible creatures. Whether you’re snapping a selfie with the tigers, marveling at the elegance of flamingos, or enjoying a day out with family and friends.

Pretend that you’re capturing the beacon standing tall!

Follow the yellow brick road along your journey through this life!

Have that race up the mountain!

Watch the butterflies flutter by and land on you in trust!

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

A butterfly always reminds us that there is always beauty at the end of all the pain.”: The Dodo – For Animal People

Dance as if no one is watching! Twirl those hips and just let loose!

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance,

Enjoy your favorite meal! (Wear a bib)🤪

Feed a baby cow!

Sit next to a pumpkin person on a spooky evening!

Go to an apple orchard and pick some of those yummies!

Feed those nutty seagulls that are always hungry!

They are brazen and never shut up, I can relate to that, they’re my kind of bird.

Climb to the top of the lighthouse!

I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing. I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

Enjoy a lollipop watching your favorite tv show!

Life is like a candy. Sometimes it’s sweet, sometimes it’s sour, but it always goes bad.

Keep calm and eat candy. It’s a piece of cake!”

Remember that life is shorter than you think and the best thing to do is find the simple joys!

In your hardest days try to smile and trudge on by thinking of what is great in this life.

Read a book and let it help you escape to another world!

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Draw or paint something creative or what you enjoy.

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” – Pablo Picasso 

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time,” – Thomas Merton

Take your camera and take photos of nature, lighthouses or anything that captures your fancy!

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange 

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Be goofy and silly! Find the laughter in what’s around you!

“We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.” – William James 

If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Basically, enjoy the life you have and find those small things to make you smile! They are all around you, all you have to do is open your eyes and mind.

“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.”

I am slowly learning for myself that I may not be able to do the BIG things again that I already have, ( I was blessed to have been able to at that time) and I can admit that it can be hard to find that joy when life is hard and it is extremely hard.

I have opened my mind and eyes every day and do the best I can to find even the tiniest ray of happy!