Some Nice Feelings (To Make Up For Today's Sad Post)

• Waking up when you have several hours left to sleep. You're comfortably tangled up in your blankets and sheets. You're not too cold, but not too hot. lie there listening to the silence and feeling the movement of your own breathing, letting your mind relax and fly in whatever direction it wants to until you doze off again. 
• Stargazing at night, either alone or with someone. Relaxing music is playing in the background as you stare at the infinite sky peppered with stars and galaxies. It's a comfortably warm night and you can feel the hard surface of the top of the car underneath your back. A soft breeze plays through your hair and you are at peace with your place in the cosmos.
• Energized on caffeine and adrenaline. You're on top of the world and you can do anything. You can feel energy running through your veins like blood. The sky is electric blue and you reach out and touch it.
• Softly tired. You finished everything and now you're relaxing. You like the way this tired feels, not demanding for rest, not the raw insistence of sleep-deprevation. You drink a hot cup of tea slowly and savor the moment before changing into warm pajamas and spinning into sleep.
• Peace. Everything is at peace. Things are going on all around you, but you are content to sit there for a moment, just watching and listening and thinking. You cherish a long minute that is yours alone, yours to feel. Then you get up and get back to it, finishing on a productive and cheerful note before calling it a day. You might not go back to that moment of peace, but it's a golden minute to remember.