Store Your Happy Memories Here:

[Croix]

Dear All~

What this place is for:
This thread is a tool, a resource, and also I guess a dash of entertainment.

I’ve found that when life is grim that sometimes thoughts of past happiness can create a chink of light in the grey overwhelming press of down. They can help occupy the mind with lighter reflections.

With that in view I invite people to set down a brief passage describing some happy event they look back to with fondness and peace.

They - and others too - can then return to it when they feel the need to glean a little warmth.

It is not a place for gloomy or dire tales, those can go elsewhere.

What to do:
Just set out, as simply as you like, your recollection of some past experience that means something good to you, something you enjoyed, something from safe times.

It can be, like my story below, anything – from an account of visiting grandparents to simply cooking and eating a melted-cheese sandwich in a favorite kitchen – you get to choose.

How to do it:
Write. Write enough so someone else can feel the mood, know what happened, find the goodness. (stop at 2,500 characters please!)

Grammar, syntax, spelling, punctuation are not compulsory, just write as you can – the only important thing is the content - not literary merit. Short or long - it does not matter.


I hope you enjoy, contribute and find a little distraction here when you need it.

Croix

[Guest_1055]

Thanks everyone for sharing your special memories...

I have been sitting here, attempting to remember one.

And it is one with my cat Taomi in it. I really wanted a cat, well a kitten. So a person went with me to the RSPCA. We walked around all the outside cages. The cages were pretty large. One cage I came to had a lot of kittens up near the front. They were meowing loud and rolling around,like kittens do. There was a lot of them. Then I saw this little black kitten with white paws right up the back of the cage. She was all by herself and looked somewhat lonely and rejected. A bit like I felt at that particular time in my life. She was very tiny. I was instantly drawn to her, and chose her. Thanks Taomi you were a friend to me for a long time. You grew up to be such a loving and gentle cat.

Anyway after I paid for her and was told her name. I kept that name because it suited her. The person I was with put her inside his jacket, she did seem a little scared. I think she felt safe in the jacket.

Once at home we placed her in a box with a hot water bottle and a clicking clock. She slept in there. When she got bigger she use to jump on the water heater and sit up there. She liked it. Indeed she was the only one I could cuddle for a while. I loved her. Happy and special tears now..

Shell xx

[Croix]

Dear Shell~

Thank you for sharing about Taomi. As someone else recently said just looking around the forum one can see the unbelievable influence pets have been to so many, a real blessing

Croix (who can see Sumo Cat 'busy' in the chair opposite)

[Quercus]

One more post then I need to sleep just don't want this little memory to pass me by...

My Aunty gave me a present today... Or I should say gave the kids a present 😊

A fancy apple peeler and corer that attaches to the bench. You stab the apple and twirl the handle slowly and it peels and cuts and cores the entire apple. When you take it off it is a beautiful apple spiral!

My son and daughter thought it was the most amazing thing they had ever seen! Two little kids stabbing apples and giggling as they made a massive pile of apple spirals.

Every family member had to be shown the technique. Do red apples or green peel better? And everyone had to chip in and eat some apple because the kids must have peeled about 20! Lucky Dad had given us a massive box of off the tree.

Such simple things bringing a family together. And glorious childish enthusiasm which is utterly infectious. How I wish we as adults could feel joy the way kids do 😊

[Croix]

Dear Quercus~

You have a gift for seeing the wonder in life, the echidna, numbat, your father's mood, apple spirals and giggling children all make for a very rich world.

Thank you for pointing it out

Croix

[monkey_magic]

Letting go of everything and starting fresh. No past reminders, erased... including my old car that I crashed. Today I purchased a car & I'm starting a new chapter 🙂

Happy days 🙂

[Jackson1994]

Riding our bikes to school on a cold morning and seeing the fog from our breath

or riding home and stopping by the big puddle to play boats almost every single day and being disappointed when it would dry up over summer

[Jackson1994]

I remember my brother being "sick" from school one day and I rode past on the way to school and it was dry, i was disappointed, it rained during the day and when I rode past on the way back it was full, and I rode so fast the rest of the way home to tell ty that the puddle was full, and we went down to have a look, seemed like such a big deal to us. It was kind of like our thing, that mum didn't quite understand haha

[monkey_magic]

Being a goddess. Feeling a white light. Seeing many men surrounding me. I can see them he he...they are surrounding us. They are protectors. Laughing, smiling, feeling gold because of my huge heart. Empowerment, forgiveness, letting go of guilt,hurts, shedding it all, sending the past away to someone giant. A man in the sky....he knows 😉 nothing to fear

[Croix]

Dear Guest_43256~

Being pretty good - yes, a goddess -um I dunno, perhaps. Actually your last three words in that post above are the gold.

Croix

[Croix]

Dear Jackson~

Your story of Ty and the puddle. It's good, it reminds me of fooling round with boats in puddles I made with sand dams at the seaside. Keep a kid occupied for hours. It was a big deal back then.

Croix