This made me happy #1

Hey there, did you miss me? 

Probably not.

But if you did, hey, how are you? How are you really doing? How's life? :)

I'm not here to give excuses for why I haven't posted but I will explain a little before I go on.

I wrote a post explaining that I was drowning in University work and won't be able to post anything until December time, but Blogger wouldn't let me post it. I tried rewriting it several times but I still couldn't post it - back in October actually. 

Whenever I tried to publish it, it wouldn't show properly. The post has been sitting in my drafts, collecting dust ever since. And I suppose it's irrelevant to post it now.

So, I decided to leave it and come back here with a new post whenever I do, in hopes that I can post a new one.

So here I am.

I don't have any sort of advice for you. 

I could have ranted to you because life is pretty crappy, but that's not what I want to do either.

So, you're probably wondering, what DO I want to do? 

What DO I want to tell you?

To be honest, I don't know actually.

I figured I'd let you know I'm still alive, but not just that. I'm also in a happy mood, truly happy, albeit probably for a short time but it's still there nonetheless, so I shall embrace it.

You might be wondering why I'm in a happy mood. 

And if you're not wondering that, then you probably don't care. That's fine. You don't have to keep reading. 

But for the person who does care, I'll tell ya.

So a friend of mine told me to watch a Christmas series called 'Dash and Lily' on Netflix. She told me to watch it some time ago and I decided to watch it yesterday night.

Long story short, it was the most beautiful thing ever. 

Some people may disagree with me, but hear me out.

I, for one, haven't watched any sort of happy or joyful thing in a while; nothing that invokes fuzzy feelings in a person.

You know, the type of fuzzy feelings romantic or cute stuff make you feel? 

If you like those kinds of things, then you'd know what I mean.

Since I haven't watched fuzzy-invoking things in a while, anything cute or romantic is bound to create that effect.

Also, it's a Christmas series - they usually have this sort of vibe that screams happiness or joy. It's like they cause you to think the world IS a beautiful place or CAN be a beautiful place. They sometimes make you look at things in an optimistic and hopeful way.

Because of this outlook, the storyline and the things they portray become beautiful and almost magical in a sense.

You might think this is all gibberish, but hey it's my blog so I can write all the gibberish I want ;) 

And it's all just my perspective anyway, so you don't have to agree with it :)

So, the storyline. 

This may be a spoiler for people who plan to watch it but it might also encourage others to watch it.

It may discourage some people from watching it, which would be unfortunate because that's not my intention.

Anyway, like the title implies, it's about Dash and Lily. A guy named Dash, and a girl named Lily. Those are short forms of their names, of course. 

They basically got to know each other through a notebook. It started off with Lily writing in a notebook and leaving it at a bookstore. The notebook had clues that needed solving, in order to decipher the message. Dash found the book and solved the clues. He then left his own clues for Lily and she solved it.

They basically dared each other to do things around the city and helped each other get out of their comfort zones. 

It seemed really fun to me.

They, of course, went through some things and broke each other's hearts.

The story mentioned something about the person in our heads not being the person we see in real life, which leads to disappointment. 

They had been communicating through a notebook and hadn't met each other, but they met in a not-so-beautiful way. That's kinda what led to the whole disappointment thing.

Allow me to explain what the 'person in our heads' thing means. In my own way, of course.

Basically, what it means is that we have an image of the ideal person in our heads. Something that is probably derived from the impression they give off. In their case, it was through the notebook. The words they wrote; the things they said about themselves and the way they expressed it. 

And also the way the receiver interprets it.

I think those things went into molding what either of them expected the other to be like or look like.

So using those things, you form an ideal person for yourself. This is obviously biased because your own interpretations were involved.

So once you've created this image, and you meet the person in real life, this may lead to disappointment. Because, of course, no one is really the 'ideal person'. You can meet someone and say they are your ideal person.

But no one's true ideal person exists. 

I don't think there is an ideal person.

Anyway, because they didn't meet each other face to face, they created ideal versions of each other. And they saw that the real-life person deviated from that, so that was upsetting to them.

I'm trying not to give too much of the story away, without stripping it off its magic. The magic it bestowed on me, to say the least.

So they of course got through the hurdle and ended up together. 

I really liked how it started; the relationship I mean. The idea of writing in a notebook seems appealing to me and is something I would do.

The story was really cute.

Yes, I'm writing to tell you about something I did that made me happy.

I momentarily forgot I had mountains of work to do. Earlier that day, I had actually gotten rid of one of the boulders blocking the path down the mountain so I didn't feel too guilty watching something non-university related.

So like I said, I have no advice for you or anything informative of that sort. I just wanted to share something. Something that isn't remotely negative; something that isn't a complaint about my current situation.

Rather, something nice, to put it simply.

It was almost like casual magic, except not really. 

Whenever I discover movies on my own and happen to really love them, I consider it casual magic because what are the chances of that happening. I also feel that with songs as well because I feel like I've discovered a hidden treasure.

Casual magic can happen in everyday life too.

I was about to say, "so my point is", but I realized I don't have a point :)

So, I'd like to end this by saying: do something that truly makes you feel happy often.

"Do more of what makes you happy."

Never forget that you're loved💖

Stay safe! Wear a mask! Sanitize! And practice social distancing, please!

- By Teenagehood Misfits 💙

P.S. I will admit, I'm starting to feel a little lost about what to put on here. I wanted to, and I try to write things that I think will be helpful for others but I don't often think of ideas like that. And executing them is even harder.

I'd like to just post casual things like this more often, is that okay?

Well, let's see how it goes. I could make it into some sort of series in itself, like happy stuff. And I could collect happy stuff from other people and include.

I think that'll be cool. Of course, I can't overdo it, so I'll have to think of other ideas.