As inspired by (and expanding on) my friend Tim’s post:

• A classy-cozy place to drink sparkling wine and read
• Walking to the grocery store
• Better yet, walking to a cheese shop
• Travelling alone like once a month
• Travelling with somebody like every other month
• A place to have espressos in the morning within a few minutes of home where the people know me
• Freedom, absolutely no demands on my time
• A kitchen with a Dutch oven (once you go Dutch…)
• A boy to cuddle at night
• Observing seasonal festivals (Advent/Christmas/midwinter, Easter/Spring equinox-ish, Summer vacation/Midsummer)
• Italy like 5 times a year
• Seeing my family like 2-3 times a year
• Hosting friends and family
• Calling my parents like once 1-2 months
• Long, long term friends that are the same even after not meeting for years
• Walking to an independent cinema with indie/foreign movies
• Working with other people (because working alone doesn’t work)
• Being god smacked by great novel natural beauty
• Hiking, but only in new places (exploration instinct?)
• Dry martinis, so chilled it kinda hurts to hold the glass at first
• Live classic jazz bands, but only abroad
• Flixbus
• Unexpectedly seeing the sunrise after a long night out (their never the same when planned)
• Raving alone after going out with friends
• Gaining new groups of friends (because transcending individual identity is an entirely different experience)
• Getting on a train to the airport (but not busses, weirdly)
• The sensation of the sun touching your skin
• The sense of your muscles lifting slightly more weight than it did last time (at the gym)
• Bertrand Russell (for correctly pointing out that pretty much any other philosopher is wrong about pretty much everything and just not worth reading)
• Cognac, sometimes Armagnac
• Chopin, but only Nocturnes
• Comfortable clothes that look better than they should and last forever
• The sensation of heat on your face
• When friends mock you for being exactly how you are, because it means they know you, and don’t mind (true love?)
• Hostels, without which I would have barely afford to travel, but with which I have travelled and seen so much for so long and met so many lovely people
• Balconies, because humans need daylight, everyday, and nobody should believe otherwise
• Napping in parks
• Sunhats
• The quality of unexpected intoxicated sleep, like rophying yourself