The 5 things that bring me happiness.

What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

I started writing this but I felt it was too much of a cliche because I said “my family.”

It’s who I am, although some memories remind me that my family did not always make me happy.

I love my family and I cherish the memories of my family, but I decided to take a more honest approach.

The 5 things that make me happy…

Long days where you spend most of the day outside so that when day turns to night it feels like a reward and the night is as illuminated as the day.

A good cup of coffee and a cigarette, when the coffee makes the cigarette taste better and the cigarette makes the coffee taste better.

Writing, putting my thoughts down into words, telling stories for others to enjoy, finding out that someone felt something when they read what I wrote.

Making people laugh, some people can some people cannot, I have always tried to make people laugh, I’ve failed a lot but when I have not it always makes me happy.

Never giving up. My father always said to me that I made him proud because “I always stuck to my guns” and that I never give up. I have wanted to be a writer, performer, entertainer all of my life. Despite my flaws, mistakes and lack of money I keep pushing and moving forward toward something.

I call myself the “Dog Fight Scrapper” the “Rat Pack Slacker.” And I will never give up because it makes me happy that I am still fighting.