A list of things that are pure relief
- That first sip of coffee in the morning when your eyes are still blurry from sleep.
- Getting a piece of food out of your teeth with floss, especially if it was a piece of apple.
- Finishing your last set at the gym. Bonus points if you maintained form throughout all the sets.
- Emptying your bowels fully and feeling like you're on the moon because you're so much lighter.
- Waking up with no hangover after a night out (because you still aren't drinking).
- Waking up with no feeling of regret after a night out (because your ability to reduce dumb things said and done is vastly improved, because you still aren't drinking).
- When your program runs with no errors and outputs what you were hoping for.
- Holding a stretch for at least thirty seconds, and at the twenty second mark, you feel your body finally accept its fate as it decides to release the muscle. Never mind that it'll go back to hurting in a day.
- Friday morning if you work a four-day week. (Sorry to rub it in. In my defence, I do pay for it).
- Finishing a game that sucks.
- Finishing a book that sucks.
- Being outside in the forest, just to get away from concrete.
- Diving under the waves in the ocean. (Sometimes it's far too long in between occasions when I do that.)
- Finishing a nasty project at work. You know those ones that push you to your limit of understanding and capability, you do overtime for, you burn all your neurons trying to build the required mental model needed... And then it's done and everyone is happy and you can exhale.
- Getting to the top of a horrid boulder that scares the shit out of you at the top for the last move or two. (Had one of those yesterday, real high up, final move, tiny crimpy hold I had to swap fingers on from right to left, and a big juicy jug at the end that felt like I'd just gone from caressing piranhas to hefting gold when I hit it. Phew.)
- Getting your visa approved.
- When an old injury is finally healed and it doesn't scare you anymore.
- Waking up in the morning at my mum's place, with the kookaburras laughing, the sun creeping up, hearing the people on their morning jog in the park below, feet pit-pattering on the pavement, and knowing we're off for coffee down at the local soon, because mum also wakes up early. This one is just for me. (I hope you get to experience something similar.)
- Finishing writing when I'd come into the session feeling like I had nothing to share.
If you've got something you'd add, let me know and I'll add them to the list. [email protected] :)