• SharkEatingBreakfast
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    520 days ago

    When my kid has a nice day

    A cute plush

    Crab rangoon

    Seeing plants start to bloom

    Friendly cats

    Seeing someone embrace their curiosity about a subject

    My stupid bearded dragon

    Seeing someone clearly filled with joy

    Younger people discovering a “retro” thing and thinking it’s “cool”

    Being able to answer a question because you have the niche knowledge to do so

    Someone who is genuinely awed by sometimes you put a lot of time / effort into

    Eating a juicy, crunchy, delicious apple that hits that craving just right!

    Seeing a cool bug

    There’s more, but I’ll stop for now (but lmk if you need a continuation).

  • @Yermaw@lemm.ee
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    120 days ago

    In the last couple of years, seeing my toddler do new things. Any new things. Jumping, saying “cake”, eating a new food, today it was making toys talk to each other.

    Overall, coding things. I’m incredibly newbie but wannabe game dev. Learning to code as I go copying tutorials and trying to tweak things and mash different ones together until it does what I want. I would spend an entire evening getting frustrated and not understanding error codes and pulling my hair out because invalid syntax and shit. Then finally it would do what I wanted it to do and I could physically feel my brain light up with buzzy happy-chemicals, big grins and jumping round the room like a kid on Xmas.

    Then I’d start on the next minijob and break the whole fucking thing…

  • @JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
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    020 days ago

    Seeing kids smile, hearing them laugh. Like, if I’m on the bus and I hear a baby laughing, with those early crackly chuckles they get, it just taps into something within me and brightens my mood. Very difficult to frown with such pure happiness around.