I suspect we all have them - some tiny, inconsequential things that will make you smile or feel good every time you encounter them.
Por ejemplo:
CNN Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain Open - Season 1 - YouTube The opening to “Parts Unknown,” Anthony Bourdain’s show on CNN. At 0:26 into the clip, there’s a guy that is, I assume, dancing. It’s the briefest of glimpses, with no context at all, but my brain interprets his movements as exuberance, and joy, and there’s just something about that momentary scene that makes me smile. I choose to believe that the young man is, at that moment, very happy, and his happiness bleeds off the screen and infects me.
Justified - Opening Credits - YouTube Also from TV, during the opening credits to “Justified,” there’s a moment at about 0:21 showing a dog barking his fool head off. He doesn’t appear to be terribly aggressive; he’s just sitting on his porch barking. At whom? Why? Who cares? He looks just silly enough that it tickles me. Based on that image, I suspect that he’s a bit of a goofball of a dog. He probably falls for the pretend-to-throw-the-ball trick every time. If there’s a cat in that house, the cat certainly owns that dog. Probably eats from the dog’s dish while the dog just sits there watching. I’d bet that this dog has more than once run into a glass door that was closed. And he makes me grin.
I can’t find an audio clip, but there’s a stock sound effect that’s used when a pile of bricks is being shifted around, usually when our hero (or at least, protagonist) is extricating himself from the remnants of a building that has one down around him. The sound is a bit higher in pitch than what I suspect a real pile of bricks would sound like in motion, but I find that sound inexplicably pleasing to me.
So, what are the silly things that go unnoticed by most people that, for some reason or another, make your day just a bit brighter for having encountered them?
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Watching the students play with boxes of bones (medical library), they will check them out and a while later I’ll look over and see someone casually and without thought, scratching their back with a femur. It always tickles me.
Here’s a heart-warming one that comes to mind, of seeing a public figure reveal that he has human sensitivities in his private life… Analyst Jim DeShaies, doing an Astros game, with a camera shot of a spectator, a little girl with her doll. DeShaies says “She brought Rebecca to the game with her.” Asked how he knew the name of the doll, he said “It’s an American Girl doll, and I have a granddaughter.” More important is the subtext: “I spend a lot of time with my granddaughter, and I pay attention to her, and learn what is in her heart” That made me smile. And cry.
Silly socks. I have sizable collection of silly socks. Everything from dinosaurs to spiders to sushi. People at work stop to ask what socks I have on. Today I am wearing giraffes.
When my favorite patient remembered me. I have a patient I have cared for a few times over the last 6 months but not since February and I just love her. I was sad to see that she was back in the hospital last week but when I walked into the room she greeted me with, “My favorite Respiratory Therapist!! How are your puppies?!” I didn’t think I had made as big an impact on her as she had on me.
I get the biggest kick out of seeing two of my elderly cats (14 and 16 years old) snuggle together, wash each other around the face and ears, the settle down to snooze together in what my mother used to call a “puddle of cats”.