Met the cutest little baby girl in line at the grocery store.  She was smiling and playing with me all the while we were standing there.  Made me feel happy.

Friends

Yesterday I was so low I couldn't make it to the store, but today I had company.  Just having someone there to talk to changes so much.  Thank you, friends.  I hope you know how important you are.

A day off

I let myself have a day completely without obligations.  Doing only things I enjoy (plus some laundry) and not even thinking about studying.  And my brain let me have a day mostly without bad thoughts.  It was a good day.

Maybe an introductory post is in order.

Hi!  I'm unsure of how personal I want to get here, so I'll just introduce the idea behind this blog.
One day, a friend of mine said how depressing it was that his co-workers were always complaining about the bad things in life, never mentioning the good.  I felt guilty about how I had been complaining too and decided not to be that person any more.  I turned my Xanga (which previously had been a lot of complaining) into a daily "positive things" series.  Finding something good in the events of every day. I kept that up for six months or so, and then stopped for whatever reason.  Lately, I have felt that I need that positive outlook again.  This past year has been the most depressed of my life and I occasionally have suicidal thoughts.  I don't plan on acting on them, but sometimes it's hard to find the will to go on.  Enter The Bloggess with this post.  It inspired me to want to create somewhere we could share what saves us every day.  I want everyone reading this to feel free to comment with what helped them.  You don't have to be suicidal, it doesn't have to be some big epiphany about the meaning of life.  Anything that made you feel a tiny bit better is valid.

Snow

The snow.  It's been a down week, but every time I look outside and see the falling snow, a smile spreads on my face.