The 101 Reasons Why Life is Beautiful Challenge was created by someone on polyvore who wanted to have some lovely, grateful posts to brighten up the typical onslaught of depressing or argumentative posts.
The challenge is exactly what it sounds like: create a list of 101 reasons that life is beautiful to you.
I've shared my list below and encourage you all to post your own lists. It really helped me to recognize all sorts of different beauties in my life and made me grateful for so many things. Definitely the thing to pull out and read when you are feeling down or having a hard time finding the beauty in the world. And it's really cool to read about what your friends value!
p.s. The picture above is the set on polyvore that I made for the challenge
{101 Reasons Why Life is Beautiful}
1. My family
2. Being able to sit down and play things on the piano
3. When my favorite team wins the World Series
4. My super fuzzy warm bright green blanket
5. Scarves- cute & warm
6. Headphone/ earbuds and portable music
7. Port Isobel Island- when I visited and we went on a night hike and everything and you just feel the presence of God so much.
8. When you are the one to say the thing that makes everyone guffaw.
9. Pointe shoes
10. That split second when you get happily surprised or get good news and everything is wonderful!
11. Chocolate fudge brownie ice cream
12. Accents
13. Finishing a project that you've worked super hard on
14. Hair and how it feels and everything you can do with it
15. Amazing cosplays
16. When you say something about how you think or something you worry about and someone not only understand you but thinks or worries about the same thing in the same way.
17. When you know an obscure fact that perfectly fits in a situation.
18. Sitting on the veranda at that bed and breakfast and sipping iced tea and eating coconut cookies and playing games all day.
19. When you keep on feeling like you have a bunch of stuff to do, but then you remember that you actually don't.
20. Converses- specifically high tops
21. Sitting by a window- especially at twilight
22. New York City- especially Times Square and the theatre district
23. That feeling after you've been worried or sad of "you know what? Everything is going to be ok. I've got this and, more importantly, God's got this."
24. A cool glass of lemon water with ice
25. Biking on a nice day
26. Stage- dooring- especially when you have something to give the actors
27. Ice skating- when you actually get it and when you go with friends
28. The feeling that the person you are spending time with genuinely wants to spend time with you and doesn't want to do anything else.
29. A perfect, unbroken candy cane
30. Daddy/ Daughter nights
31. Thunderstorms
32. Waking up in the middle of the night and realizing you still have several hours before you have to get up.
33. Tea/ Tea Lattes
34. My purple flannel pillow case with unicorns on it. :)
35. Singing in the shower
36. When it finally begins to feel like spring/summer
37. Journaling
38. Making creative sets on polyvore
39. Fuzzy socks
40. Getting into clean clothes and a cozy bed after a shower
41. Hanging with a whole group of friends
42. When little kids come and hug you
43. Reading a really good book
44. Tartines
45. The song "Miracle" from Matilda and everything it talks about.
46. Footy pajamas
47. Christmas carols
48. Pigs
49. The key change during "Once and For All" in Newsies when they come forward on the towers.
50. Animated movies
51. A fancy tea with China and sandwiches and scones.
52. Cardigans
53. Sunsets
54. Hugs and handhugs
55. Good, delicious sandwiches with condiments
56. Bacon
57. Chocolate
58. Music- it's crazy that vibrations of things can make such gorgeous noises
59. The smell of a coffee shop
60. A cute outfit that makes you feel beautiful and confident
61. Participating in a debate
62. Playing scattergories with my family
63. Playbills
64. Making movies
65. The smell of outside
66. When you find deep, beautiful meanings in books, tv shows, and movies
67. Knowing that God forgives me for any/everything I do- especially when I'm feeling really guilty.
68. Water tubing
69. My dad's sweaters- how they feel and smell
70. Smiling
71. Soaring, epic soundtracks
72. Crispy bread and butter
73. The huge picture window and view in my grandfather's old house
74. Inside jokes
75. When it stays light outside really late
76. The smell of books
77. Children's picture books
78. Drawing
79. 20s fashion
80. Playgrounds outside
81. Fall leaves
82. Choreographing dances
83. Hotel rooms
84. Stop motion animation videos (like PES)
85. Public speaking (I know- I'm weird)
86. Using things I find in my house to set up "sets" or rooms for a certain story, movie, game, play, etc.
87. Appetizers- especially chips and dip and calamari
88. Sushi
89. Crickets chirping
90. Eating outside
91. Receiving a heart felt, unprovoked compliment
92. Musicals
93. Finding out that someone famous or cool or nice is a Christian
94. Amazing sets/ scenery
95. The woods- especially when you find cool paths and places you didn't know existed
96. Feeling proud of yourself for a good, legitimate reason- like something you worked really hard on
97. When you get the part after an audition
98. Breakaway (a retreat I go on)
99. When you feel excited or happy or giggly and have no idea why
100. When you're freezing cold after eating ice cream and you walk out into the summer heat and it feels so good
101. Acting- especially when I can incorporate it with singing and dancing
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