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

[Doolhof]

New happy memories are being created in our family.

A new baby has arrived and I for one am very excited, happy and looking forward to watching this precious child grow up, even if it is from a distance.

I have already shown co workers photos!

When I catch up with friends I can share my happy news with them.

I had tears of happiness when I heard the news.

[mmMekitty]

Hi Doolhof,

How wonderful! 😺

I keep thinking these days, since we have this new fangld technology built right into our phones, why not get sound or video recordings? Specially when the little one is making amazing sounds..😺 both loud & soft.

[missep123]

A happy memory happened to me recently-

My family, partner and I were able to go to Canberra together and so we all spent some amazing quality time! We would meet up in the lobby and go out for dinner and hang out. It was fun to explore a new city together. I had a lot of fun.

[Banksy92]

Today I have a happy memory Id like to store here 🙂

Going to the christmas tree farm with my partner and our dog. It was a beautiful sunny day and we walk around sizing up all the trees for almost an hour. Our playful pooch bounced around and weaved through every row of trees helping us to pick the perfect, plump tree for our little home. We sawed it down and lugged it to the car and now the living room smells of fresh pine.

[Mk2692]

Hi Banksy92,

A recent happy memory is when me and my family finally caught up after the lockdown for lunch. It was so beautiful to finally spend time out together and have a normal life. It made me realise how blessed I am for having a family and not being separated due to Covid.

[Croix]

Dear Banksy92 and all~

I'm not sure if I've recounted this memory before, your talk of Christmas trees reminded me of a Christmas when I was a lad on the other side of the world. We had actually had snow -not a given - and the silliest chook in the world decided to lay eggs.

Maybe we should have bought her a calendar.

Anyway it presented a problem, it was too cold for her to brood them so we brought them inside. Our original intention to use a ceramic hot-water bottle did not work out, so my parents took the light bulb from our Nativity Scene and put them on a jumper in a cardboard box wiht the globe at the top.

From memory they all hatched and thrived, the Nativity Scene was relegated to darkness, but that all seemed fitting.

Croix

[mmMekitty]

Ah, I thought I'd find you here, Croix 😸...& that sounds like a very Xmassy thing to do! 😺

mmMekitty

[Croix]

Dear mmMekitty and all~

I was talking to Blue's Clues a couple of days ago abut race horses and that reminded me.

When a teen at once place the gentleman over the back fence had racehorses. He was a war vet and used to sit for long spells in his shed overlooking the horses, just siting and smoking with a bottle of beer, sometimes all day. I did not understand at that time what he may have gone though or the result. I just took it that's how he was.

For some reason he liked my company and we often sat together quietly.

This lead on to first feeding, mucking out, grooming, saddling and bridling the horses, then later on as his confidence in me increased actually riding them (I had ridden before).

In time I'd accompany him on a second horse around the local streets, giving gentle exercise and trying not to fall off sideways, backwards or forwards whenever they shied away from a vicious horse-eating scrap of paper or tried to bolt away from a distant pedestrian.

As we only used snaffle bits for exercise I became quite proud of my riding skills.

Croix

[quirkywords]

This a recent memory of my 3 grandchild telling me she was a show dancer and was to follow what she did.

We laughed a lot and my silly dancing and it was great to be in the moment and share the sheer joy of a three year old. priceless memory.

[Centaured]

There are a lot of things I don't remember. And a lot I don't want to remember. But I like this thread anyway.

One good thing that stands out to me was most week days we would gather round the tv and watch Dr Who. That second ever episode with the Dalek scarred me but developed my passion for all things sci fi.