Good moments 🌈
hey everyone, i'm creating this space for myself to come to every day, hopefully, and share my good moments. ✨
when i say 'good moment', it doesn't mean i have to feel happy or anything. it could be anything that made me feel a tiny bit better or something that made me feel good for a little bit. it could even be something that happened that's supposed to be good, even if it didn't change how i feel. or if i'm having a particularly bad day, a good moment could be a moment when i just didn't feel that horrific. and of course, it could be a moment when i just somehow magically feel fine for a bit, with no apparent cause. magic, lol. 🪄
i've recently realised that thinking of good moments makes every day feel a tiny bit different, instead of every day feeling the same and having that school, homework, exam, eat, sleep, repeat cycle going on. when i'm depressed and have been for months on end, it's really easy to just see that and forget the good that does occasionally come. perhaps after a while of posting on this thread, i might even be able to go back and read previous good moments when i'm feeling awful.
i know that every time i try to feel better and actually get to feeling better, it eventually comes crashing down soon and i feel bad again. but i guess i'll try to feel better anyway by focusing on the good moments. and when i do get to feeling better, i want to make the best of it and use it to get work done, so that the times when it gets bad again don't affect my schoolwork too much.
i will really try to come here every day and post something, even if it's very small and seems insignificant, even if i feel like i didn't have anything good happen that day. and if i ever have a miracle day when i have a lot of good moments, i'll try my best to list them all out for me to read on the awful days that follow (somehow my really good days are always followed by some really bad ones, and it sucks). if i ever miss a day of posting, i will try to post that day's good moments the next day.
i know that sometimes i will need to mention the bad stuff too here, to be able to explain why something was a good moment, but in general, i will try my best to avoid talking too much about the bad on this thread.
thank you, @bestVase7265, for encouraging me to write down my good moments. this idea of yours has been of a lot of help to me. i hope it works well with this thread for posting good moments. feel free to follow along and read whatever good i find every day, and share yours too (only if you'd like to, of course. you can always just stick to our space if you wish). 🤍🤍
anyone else reading this is welcome to share their good moments as well, i'd love to hear them. wishing you all the best. 💙
saturday (1st feb): i've had such a good day today, filled with countless good moments. just an amazing day. it's a lot to type though, so i'm not sure if i can list everything out.
i woke up at 7 am and realised how quickly i had fallen asleep last night. i has just gotten into bed and opened up this good moments thread on the phone, so i could type in something. and i had fallen asleep like that. the phone fell out of my hand, my bedside light stayed on all night. and i got such good sleep. of course, i turned the light off and went back to sleep for another hour and a half, but yeah. in the end i got almost 7.5 hours of sleep, which is the longest i've slept in weeks.
when my mother woke me up today, i thought it was gonna be a horrible day because i felt so irritated and she wasn't being nice either. but she calmed down and started being nice and that really turned around my mood and literally my whole day. she started being really nice and my mother and i have had lots of good time together today.
i cleaned up my room today, as in changing my bedsheets and dusting. changing the sheets is quite a task, but my mother helped me a bit with it and that was good. also, my bed looks quite nice with fresh sheets. also, while i was doing it, i got all my pillows down on the floor and when i was tired i just could just lay down on them for a bit before changing the pillowcases as well.
i had oiled my hair last night, and today i washed it and cut/trimmed it. it took a lot of time and effort, but i love how it turned out. at first, i thought i messed up the trimming, but after washing it again and towel drying it, i thought it looked quite good. when my hair dried completely, i honestly loved it and thought my hair looked so fluffy and shiny and felt so soft and silky. i love it. i think it really needed the cut because my hair has been a disaster since the last time i cut it, but it looks and feels good now.
i gotta go now. will type the rest tomorrow if i get time.
So glad that you had a pretty successful day. Those are already so nice because they give you a place to breathe.
You got some sleep! Just awesome. Maybe the fact that you ended your day with plans for writing on here helped you fall asleep faster. You had good thoughts to end your day on rather than bad ones. Doing that actively can really help.
And some nice time with your mom! What a blessing that she was kind today. Glad it felt a little healing and you got a clean bed and nice hair out of it! @exuberantBlackberry9105
And I forgot to do mine again. It was probably going on a walk. We went to a park and there were literally hundreds of yellow-rumped warblers, a very tiny bird that moves really fast. My binoculars really helped in seeing and enjoying them. @bestVase7265
@bestVase7265 ah i remember how good a day that was. i wish it happened again lol. so much sleep and good stuff happening... thanks for sharing your good moment. sounds like a really nice walk. i googled "yellow-rumped warblers" and aww they look so nice. i'm glad you got to see them and enjoy it. 💛💛
sunday (2nd feb): really have no time for this so i'll just say my hair feels good today. and i didn't have to visit the temple today which is a good thing because i thought i'd have to go.
and today evening when everything hurt and i felt awful, i decided to take a nap since i got only 4.5 hours of sleep at night. i ended up sleeping for about 1.5 hours in the evening, without even asking my mother. when she discovered me sleeping, somehow she wasn't mad. and i just felt so much better after sleeping. i felt fresh and for a moment, forgot all the pain and everything that happened.
i do have more good stuff. but it's 2:35 am. bye bye.
Great job writing this good mini message. Hopefully it set you up for some more relaxed sleep.
My good moment today was lunch when we had some mango fruit bowls. I do like mango a great deal and it felt like I was eating healthy. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 thank you! aww, that's good to hear, thanks for sharing. mangos sound yummy, i like them too. how'd you get mangos in february though? just curious. 🥭
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@Bewitched76 hi there. did you wanna say something? 🤍
hey hey, sorry i haven't been posting lately. i have been having the occasional good moment but just been too tired to type it out. i'm just too tired to do anything , too depressed to want to take the efforts to do this, and too sleepy and exhausted to actually type after the whole day is over.
You managed to get on and type something here. I am so proud of you for making that effort in spite of how bad you have been feeling. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 that means a lot, thank you! 💗
Such a beautiful idea! Focusing on the small, good moments can really help. Wishing you all the best on your journey!💗
@CharisB21 i'm glad you like the idea hehe. i agree that they can help. aww, thank you so much! 🩷
hey, i came to this thread today after a long time. i'm really sorry i haven't been posting here lately. let's hope i start doing it again soon.
saturday (15th feb): i've had quite a lot of good moments today. i'm sleepy though and it's getting late, so i don't think i can type it all out but i've have good stuff happen. like getting some schoolwork done! though definitely not as much as i needed to, it's still something. and a good chat with my cups friend, and also coming to this thread and looking over and replying to stuff.
i've spent tons of time in the balcony today. i decided to sit there with a tiny table and do some homework there. it was quite uncomfy but i got some stuff done. also took some plant pics. and later at night, i gotta say i love the night sky and all the stars, though i didn't see the moon today. 🌃
That looks like an excellent place to study even if gets uncomfortable at times. You can actually be more productive out there than in your room! Go you.
I guess that the best part of my day (which was otherwise hard) was going to the history museum archives with my students and watching their excitement in handling old historical stuff as they researched their projects. There is something thrilling about holding something no one else may have touched for 100 years. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 it isn't really an excellent place to study. the place is good, yes. but the table i was sitting at, no thanks. it's too tiny, too low and way too uncomfy for me now. it was good when i was about 4 or 5 years old (yes, it's a really old plastic table i used as a kid), but for me now, it isn't suitable, especially not for homework.
studying in the balcony felt good for a while, but on sunday i realised that it isn't actually of much help. it was slowing me down. so it's better than sitting in my room and procrastinating, but it isn't an excellent place. so it's kinda like a last resort. and good once in a while, for a change. but i do need to learn to study at my desk in my room too, and gotta learn to stop procrastinating whenever i'm in my room.
thanks for sharing your good moment, i'm happy to hear it. it does sound like fun, i'm glad you could enjoy their excitement. i'm sorry your day was otherwise hard though. *hugs* by the way, i do wonder, how come nobody may have touched them in 100 years? how come your students got to hold them then, when no one else may have in years?
Then using outside occasionally would be good. Studies have shown that regularly switching up where you are studying helps.
As far as the museum goes, my student was looking at a personal journal. There is so much stuff at the museum is that my guess is there is a strong chance that no one turned to that particular page since the writer of the journal wrote things down.@exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 i guess i should use outside occasionally. should've used it yesterday instead of watching youtube all day.
oh, i got the museum things, makes sense! and it sounds really interesting to be honest.
friday (21st feb): i'm too exhausted and sleepy to think clearly and actually type anything here in detail, even though i want to. i'll try, but excuse me if i'm talking nonsense. i've been up since 6 am, no naps and running on less than 2 hours of sleep last night. i'll just say that the day wasn't as bad as i expected. i managed to push through it even on less than 2 hours of sleep. that's a good thing?
i'm extremely glad i could go to school today because sitting at home for days with my mother has been awful. also, getting to talk to my former bench partner was good. for some reason, i love talking to him and it's amazing to get a chance to talk to him. school was actually not that bad. i was worried about chemistry notebook submission but the teacher ended up being quite literally blind to my incomplete work, which is good.
we also got a few free periods today and mostly did timepass. in a way, that's good because if teachers take revision, that's a problem for me because i haven't been studying. and we saw our maths teacher in a good mood after quite some time and he was joking and stuff.
i guess things have been a teeny bit better with my mother today. i've been trying to fix things. i dunno really, but at least she explained some maths and english stuff to me even though things are far from normal and we're not talking normally and i'm still being rude and yelling a lot.
i got my room tidied up today. and it's 12:13 am and i'm quite ready to go to bed. this is a good thing, right? it's relatively early. a lot better than 4 am.
Glad that you got back on here and wrote about a pretty successful day. I am also happy that you got to talk to your formal bench partner and your mom was a bit better. May you get blessed with more sleep.
It was again a rough day for me but I am going to say that the best part of the day was getting to eat the dinner my son prepared. It was nice to not have to cook. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 that counts as a successful day?! oh lol. but getting to talk to my former bench partner was good. especially knowing that me talking to him might have really helped him because no one really ever talks to him or is really interested in listening to his story.
the only reason i'm interested in knowing is because i know how depressed and lonely he is and how much he just wants to talk. i ended up finding out a lot about him and how he keeps going. he also said something that was really relatable and i could agree with it.
i'm sorry it was a rough day for you. *hugs* getting a break from cooking sounds good though. it sounds nice to have your son cook dinner and you not having to do it.
saturday (22nd feb): feeling like crap all day today. i don't know what on earth to say here. but yeah, things have been better with my mother today. and i lied this morning because i was still in bed at 8:20 am and she actually believed me. and she was nice and trying to help. and she kinda tried to hug me for the first time in days.
and i doubt if this really counts as a good moment, but hurting myself a little really gave me a sense of relief for a bit and i felt better for a while. and i don't even regret it or anything so it's a good thing. comes under my criteria for a good moment because it made me feel better.
i took hours for my shower today and somehow my mother wasn't mad. in the evening she came to explain stuff and ended up making me solve some maths and she was pretty nice. and eating something spicy in the evening was good, felt like i'm alive. and i took some plant pics and that's good? supposed to be good? also, after a whole day wasted on youtube, i found some stuff on youtube that kinda comforted me for a bit. for a bit, i felt some relief.
this is all i have. nothing else, i assure you. i am so done with life and even my mother being nice isn't helping, but it guess it's still supposed to be a good thing so i'm saying it.
Recognizing that your mom was a little nicer, getting a good shower, eating some nice food and getting out to some plant pictures are both excellent. These are the kinds of things that you need to keep looking for. They are the touchstones to breathing and being alive. Keep at it. @exuberantBlackberry9105
That you continue to try is everything. I know it feels pointless when you are down, but still you do a good job with finding things. Thanks for trying.
Every little bit helps. My days are also rough at the moment so when I try to think of good moments, I have to really ponder for a few minutes to come up with anything.
Today was walking around a car rest stop while waiting for my husband to use the restroom. I picked up some of the garbage and put it in the can which always reminds me that I can do something good even if it is small. Then I saw two large sandhill cranes and they let me walk really close to them. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 lol i rarely come on this thread these day and you still count it as trying? oh, and i'm sorry your days are rough lately. *hugs* 🫂
thanks for sharing, that sounds like a nice moment. i'm glad you got a change to do something good. ah, and i googled sandhill crane and, they look really nice. i'm glad you got to see two of them up close.
Of course I count any time that you come on this happier thread as trying. When you are really down this is you taking the time to breathe and look around you. That is always worthy of a victory lap and a pat on the back.
Another rough day for me so I have to think a bit harder of a good moment. But one is always there if I keep looking. I am going to go with dinner. As usual, I ended up eating the leftovers that other people have been avoiding. I wasn't looking forward to it because I don't particularly like collard greens no matter how healthy they are for me. But they were better than I remember from a few days ago. So I enjoyed dinner unexpectedly. That's good enough for today. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 well, i hope to start posting on this thread again, hopefully every day. and i might try to catch up with the days of posting i missed in march, but i dunno.
i'm glad you could find a good moment, even on a harder day. eating leftovers doesn't sound like fun, especially when it's something you don't like, but i'm happy to hear that they were better than expected. an unexpected good dinner sounds nice hehe. ❤️
Happy to hear that you think you are going to be back on here a bit. You have been studying hard so it good that you are finally going to get some more brain space.
Still on the up and down rollercoaster myself, but I taught an okay class this morning where part of it focused on a silent video from the 1920s that included a short video of a man fishing in a white dress shirt and a tie. We then speculated about why you would dress up to go fishing. They came up with some good ideas. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 hopefully i will be back here everyday starting today. i know i need to do this. and no, i have not at all been studying hard.
i'm sorry about the roller coaster, that's a tough feeling. i'm glad you had an okay class though. hmm, that does sound interesting lol, i hope you had fun speculating. feel free to share more if you feel comfy, i'd love to hear! 🤍
hellooo. so i realised i haven't been posting here for the longest time ever. i was looking over this thread the other day and i see i've had patches of time when i didn't post for a while, but none quite as long as this one. looks like i've hardly posted at all in 2025, especially since february 2025. i can't catch up with all that now, and i thought i would post for every day of march, but i dont have the great memory to post for 10 h3lly days of exams. so lets's just start from today. i really hope that i can post here every day consistently for the rest of this month. i need to be doing this if i want to feel better, you know.
11th march (tuesday): so today i am done with my 9th grade finals. was it horrible? yes. but is it over? thankfully, yes. so i made it. which is unbelievable given all that i've been going through lately. 9th grade is over! yay! now i can have some holidays and enjoy and relax for a bit. i have had quite a few good moments today.
so one of my good moments for today was when i saw that despite not studying for today's exam, there were some questions that i knew the answers to. few, but yeah. and i breathed a sigh of relief when the exam got over. it truly is a giant relief.
i got to meet my friend in school, and it was pretty good. i first saw her in the morning before the exam, then after the exam (we are classmates but we have to sit in a different classroom during exams due to different roll numbers). when i saw her after the exam and she had to go to the sick bay for something and i had to go to the bathroom, we both came out at the exact same time, which was a funny coincidence. she came with me to drop me to my bus just for fun since it's the last day of school before year end hols.
after getting home, my mother and i talked a lot and i was able to find the courage to tell her about something important, that my hair is falling out. she didn't take it seriously but i'm just glad she didn't blame me for it. also, after a lot of convincing, i was able to convince her to let me cut my hair today.
so i cut my hair. and washed it of course. and it feels so good after that, like somehow it's all fresh and fluffy and i feel clean. which is amazing after a while of feeling really disgusting. my shower today was amazing. also, i had an embarrassing moment with my mother and i accidentally yelled at her and expected it to turn into a huge fight. but somehow she was cool with it and let it go.
during lunch, we were able to plan a lot of fun stuff for the next few days. that makes me feel good. and i was able to take a really good nap after lunch. i slept really well, was so relaxed and it felt so good and i felt good when i woke up.
i finally got to use the laptop again today after my mother took it away from me on sunday for unknown reasons. being able to use it again was great. i was also able to have a really, really amazing interaction with a friend, which felt great. and knowing i can do cups work. awh, just amazing.
i had a few good laughts during dinner tonight. and after dinner, my parents and i went to get ice cream. my first ice cream of 2025. it was pretty good. and it was nice being outside at night. honestly, i was really longing to get out of the house for a bit, as in anything other than home and school. so that was nice. it's cooler at night and it's pleasant outside. also the moon. i love the moon and how it looks tonight. i spent some time in the balcony as well, at night. 🌙
and i got permission to wake up late tomorrow morning. woah, my mother allowed me to wake up at 10 am. i dunno how i convinced her, but i did. it's only for one day though. let's hope the keeps her word and wakes me up at 10 am. because my wonderful evening nap has me wide awake at almost 3 am right now. okay, i'll try to close my eyes and get some sleep.
All of that sounds just great and I am so happy that you were able to plan out a good few days ahead, get a solid nap, see the moon and have ice cream. May the time with your mom be peaceful.
I guess the best part of my day was slowing down for just a few minutes to take a few flower pictures on a quick walk around campus. But Tuesdays are really long. I leave for school at 7:15 am and get home at 7:00 pm. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 i'm glad too. but sadly things aren't going as planned, as usual. but the other stuff was good.
oooh, flower pictures sound amazing! would you like to share them? only if you're comfy though, no pressure. 🌸🌺 i'm glad you could take a quick walk, i know you love walks. i'm sorry tuesdays are so long though. 7:15 am to 7 pm is crazy long! i wonder how you can even get through such a long workday.
The pictures aren't really anything special. They were mainly to take my mind off of things. But I will attach one or two here. Aah, they are going to be upside down. Feels kind of like my day. But I tried.
Rough day here but I did find out that we are singing the song that I prefer to do for Easter in another month or so. So maybe that will be nice. 
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@bestVase7265 ah, that's okay! i'm glad the pictures helped you take your mind off things. and thank you so much for sharing them, i loved seeing them. i particularly like the second picture, the flowers are so tiny and pretty. 💮💮
and thanks for sharing your good moments too, that sounds great. sorry about the rough day. *hugs* 🫂
