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. 💙
@exuberantBlackberry9105 this is such a sweet idea! good luck <3 hope you have many good moments in 2025!
@heretohelpyou1211 thank you so much! i hope the same for you. ❤️
looks like i really havent been writing much here lately. i'm sorry. i hope to be back to doing this now that my exams are over.
i have had quite a few good moments today, especially in the later half of the day. but today i've been awake for over 18 hours straight, and on less than 4 hours of sleep. i haven't slept much for several days now and have had a very exhausting day today. so i'm just going to sleep now and will share it tomorrow.
okay, i said that on 10th jan and never came back here after that. i don't remember much anymore but i guess i'll say a little because it was a really good day.
friday (10th jan): so my exams got over that day and that's supposed to be a good thing even if it didn't change much of how i felt. i got to talk to my friend a bit after the exam and she even gave me an early birthday present lol. it's a little keychain with the letter "s" on it because my name starts with an "s". like i don't need keychains because i hardly have any keys, but i appreciate her giving it to me and i'm gonna keep it somewhere safely.
my mother and i had to go buy clothes for me to wear on my birthday and it was a disaster overall but we did find something fairly good in the end. and i found a really nice pyjama set that had a nice colour and pattern and my mother decided to buy it for me.
i remember taking a wonderful shower that day and it was really good. yeah it was late, like 5 pm or something. but it was a lovely, long, hot shower and felt good. i washed my hair and then my hair was wet for a while and it helped me feel fresh. i also remember that after my ultra long shower i sat on my bed in the dark and ate something. it was nice just sitting there. it felt so good. major good moment hehe.
my mother and i had this little time of hugging each other laying in her bed and she started off about how i am growing up so quicking and i'll be an "adult" in "just" three year. that hurts me a lot because i just wanna be a little child. but i was able to tell her that and she said she wouldn't say it again if i dislike hearing that so much.
also, at some point my mother came to my room and told me she was sorry for not being able to give me any presents for my birthday coming up. i really appreciate that she understood that and apologised.
and i remember cleaning up my room that day after it was a complete mess because of exams. i'm glad i could clean up before i went to bed. oh, and when the clock struck midnight my father wished me a happy birthday. like normally we don't celebrate birthdays at midnight and it's just a new trend but somehow my father decided to just wish me.
saturday (11th jan): i woke up to a wonderful surprise. my mother was nice to me when she woke me up and sang me happy birthday. and also made me a card and wrote me a letter. they hurt now but when i first read them they actually made me feel amazing. my morning overall was great. i got to take a shower and put on my new clothes. my mother said that they make me look good. even though i disagree, it was good to hear.
also, quite a lot of people wished me a happy birthday. my cups friend, school friend, a very old friend i'm no longer it touch with... it felt good for a bit. our neighbour from where we lived till i was 11 - she wished me and sent a picture of me on my 7th birthday. gosh i have never seen that picture before and oh my, i looked so pretty. i was was 7, so sweet and cute looking, with lovely hair in a pink birthday gown. hard to believe that was even me. i look nothing like that little girl now.
i had lots of special food for my birthday. food doesn't excite me, and it's hard to eat so much food when hunger is always so low, but tastier, out-of-the-ordinarly kinda food makes it easier to eat. for breakfast it was sandwich, kinda usual but still good. pulao and dal for lunch. then cake and ragda pattice in the evening and puris, aloo dum and kheer for dinner. that's a lot of food. too much food. but yeah i have to eat it somehow.
and i don't remember what other good stuff happened. i mean, the latter part of the day didn't exactly go well, only the morning was good. but yeah.
sunday to tuesday (12th-14th jan): nothing much good that i can really recall. had some of the worst days of my life with just endless pain. i'm sorry. cant try digging into those days to write something.
Lots of good stuff here. Focus on that. @exuberantBlackberry9105
wednesday (15th jan): i got to wake up 30 minutes later than usual today because i had asked my father to drop me to school today. and i could have a little chat with a cups friend this morning that actually made me feel kinda good for the first time in days. it's good to have someone who understands and can kinda read your mind.
i hurriedly got ready this morning and somehow still managed to get to school on time and was in the classroom before the first bell. that's funny given how late i left the house.
in school, i heard someone say that they stayed up till 2:30 am doing this project that we had to submit. somehow it comforts me to know that i'm the only kid who stays up late doing projects.
in the maths period, the teacher was asking us to submit our compulsory internship ppts. not subject specific but he had to do it because it he's our class teacher too. so we had to get it to school on a pen drive and copy the ppt onto a folder on the smartboard. and the teacher was looking over our work quickly before we submitted. for almost everyone, he would point out something that needed to be corrected. plus, none of the ppts i saw really looks that good and neat. i thought mine looked a lot better comparatively.
when it was my turn to submit, the teacher didnt point out any corrections. that was good. and also, at the end of the day he told me that i had done the good job with it even though i had a big problem with it in the beginning. it was good to hear him say that and made me smile.
okay it's getting late. i should try sleeping. will type the rest tomorrow hopefully.
You should really celebrate that powerpoint! I know how much you didn't want to do it and didn't know what to do for it. You actually do pretty awesome work sometimes!
@exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 thank you! 💙
i said i'd type the rest later but never did. now a week later, i don't even remember what i was gonna say, so i'll have to let it go.
@exuberantBlackberry9105
A good moment happened today, I got up early in the morning, replied to some forum posts and liked them. I feel good by my actions.
Thank you so much for this post! 😊
@Admirablerainbow2825 aww that sounds lovely! thank you so much for sharing hehe. i'm glad you feel good. 🤍
coming here after so long. it feels weird. but whatever, i guess i'll just say something...
wednesday (23rd jan): so i somehow made it in time for the bus this morning after a ton of rushing. guess that's a good thing? and i didn't even get time to eat a few biscuits at home. luckily my bus got to school early today before all the other buses. so i was the first one to get to the classroom and could eat there before anyone else came. or i'd have been on no food till 9:30 am lol after waking up at 6.
i saw my friend today for the first time since last thursday. because since then either i'm absent or she's absent. but yeah i saw her today and we had a pretty good time together. talking and laughing a lot. she was in a very good mood yet not overexcited. which is just perfect. i loved some of her jokes today and laughed a lot. for example, her invention of law of conservation of time and measure of one moment (1 moment = 5 minutes + 23 seconds + 6 milliseconds + 4 nanoseconds). i'm glad she came to school today because otherwise, my thoughts eat me up alive even when i'm in school. i need someone/something to keep me distracted you know.
we hardly had any classes in school today just timepass because 10th grade had their farewell today and all the teachers were there and we had a parent volunteer in our class. but i was able to use the time to do some chemistry work done and quite a lot of history homework done. i still have lots to do but i did get a lot done. and my friend was busy with her work of catching up with missed schoolwork so she want poking her nose in my books and not looking into my work too much.
some people were playing our annual day video on the smartboard today. and my friend and i finally figured out the video looks so bad. i knew it looked bad but only figured out today. sometimes its nice figuring things out, you know. also, my friend and i were also able to sort things out about this geography group activity. there was a student who was being pushed into our group by some others and we were able to talk to the teacher and get her out of our group because we know her and we know she wont do a thing. this feels like a bit of a relief.
in the bus ride home, this second grader came to sit next to me and he was so cute. he took out his tiffin box with some neatly arranged cherries and started eating. i was just watching him and how the cherries fit perfectly into that tiny little box. then he started looking at me so i just smiled and looked away. but then he offered me one of course i said "no thanks, you can have it" because i was looking and really don't want his food. but how sweet... not many children actually like sharing things you know, and when some kid's willing to share it's always nice. it genuinely made me smile for once. little children can sometimes be so sweet. also, some of the other cute, innocent stuff he was saying really reminded me of how differently little kids see the world than us older kids do. and all the simplicity in how they perceive the world. it's weirdly comforting.
i washed my hair today. that's good? and kinda tidied up my room a little while ago. also, i was finally able to vent somewhere and get some stuff out of my head and talk to someone who makes me feel safe and understood. everything was eating me up inside. getting it out really helped a lot. i felt such a sense of relief and getting it out of my head. the best i've felt in a while.
my mother has been quite tolerant to my bad behaviour today and not gotten mad at me even when my father got furious. i guess that's good.
oops, it's supposed to be wednesday, 22nd jan. typing past midnight and the computer clock shows the date as 23rd lol.
What an awesome message! Write more like this.
When you do write here you show the you from within that can be happy for a few minutes. I know how hard you struggle to find her sometimes, but she is there.
I am so proud of you every time I read something that you write here. You can still find beauty. Keep up the good work.@exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 thank you. i dunno about feeling happy for a few minutes though. most of my good moments are really just moments when i don't feel that bad. and lately they're just good things happening that might not even change how i feel.
The moments aren't supposed to change how you feel completely. They are supposed to give you 15 minutes or a half hour of peace.
Once you can see those 30 minutes a day every day as good (yes the rest of the day is ***) then something really weird starts to happen after a few months. All of a sudden you realize that you are up to 45 minutes or an hour. Your brain is starting to calm down just a little.
No day is ever going to perfect but when you can have one where more than half of it is pretty okay then you are getting somewhere. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 to be honest i dont know what peace is. i'm not sure if i'm ever at peace. but yeah, little bits of feeling okay are nice.
Peace=little bits of feeling okay. It is that simple. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 i feel 'peace' is a confusing word that's hard to really understand, for me. google defines 'peace' as 'freedom from disturbance; tranquillity.'
Yes, you are momentarily free from disturbance and tranquil. It doesn't mean that it is necessarily going to last more than 15 minutes. No one is tranquil all the time. Take the little victories. @exuberantBlackberry9105
I just wanted to say, your post always pops up in my timeline or however you call it here on cups..and I always click on it and hope you had some more good moments. For some reason it feels very good and comforting to me to read these before bed :)
I feel like you're struggling a lot so I just wanted you to know that I think you are such a good and brave girl and I hope you'll have TONS of good moments in your future!
@tinkatuff aww that's so good to hear. i'm glad you find it comforting to read before bed, that sounds really nice. i never knew my sharing of good moments ever helped someone else feel good and find comfort.
thanks a lot for letting me know. that quite motivates me to post more if they're helping you somehow. feel free to read these whenever you need and if you'd like to share your good moments too, i'd love to hear them hehe.
to be honest you're right, i am struggling a lot lately and things have been really hard. thank you so much for your message, it brightened up my morning a bit today. 💕
thursday (23rd jan): somehow i wasnt feeling that sleepy when i woke up today on very few hours of awful sleep. guess that's good. and checking cups and finding something nice (@tinkatuff, your message) was good.
in school we had house assembly today. last year house assemblies would all be really boring and everyone would be unprepared. but today's was better than what it's been for the last year. that's nice. and we were outside in the basketball court for the assembly and the morning sun shone into my face, which i liked.
the lesson we're doing in english right now, i really love it. the homework of the lesson is stressing me out but i love the lesson nevertheless. the first time i read it at home a few months ago, it made me cry, in a good way. a lot of the feelings described in it a very relatable for me and anything that's relatable, i'm gonna like it. the situations may not be the same, but the emotions are. one line is particularly very relatable. "I didn't want to grow up, change or have to handle life it it was going to be this way. I just wanted to curl up and d1e." that's exactly how i feel, except in the present tense. i know it's not a very "good" thing, but finding something that exactly describes my own feelings in the good part. it's not that often that i find something like this, but when i do, it's like i know someone in the world gets that feeling and understands me. plus the lesson reminds me of some of the good and comforting things in the world, and also the kindness that i guess sometimes can happen in the real world. and the ending is really sweet. i love this lesson.
we hardly had any classes at all in school today. most of the day was just timepass. but i was able to spend some good time with my friend and get some work done while we just had free periods all day because either teachers were absent or the forgot they had a class and never showed up until a student went and called them. but my friend and i were able to have a pretty good time doing work, talking and laughing. it distracted me from all the thoughts and the pain and i felt okay while it was all going on.
we had library class today and i issued a book with plans to read it. i took a short book because with longer books i tend to never finish them and that's not fun. so the one i took, i don't particularly love this series, it's not that calming and comforting, but as long as it's enid blyton writing i'm willing to read it. most of the library was empty today because half the class was roaming around. so it was quieter. the talkative kid who sits next to be and disturbs me in the library wasn't there so i was able to read a few pages. i think that's a good thing. i was also reading on the bus ride home when i drifted off to sleep.
we had no internet when i got home today. so i was able to clean up my room instead of wasting away time on the phone or something. that's good.
things have been really awful at home today and nobody feels good, everyone's mad at the other person and it's really rough. after a lot of drama and pain and bad thoughts, i finally figured out why it all happened. because my father stayed home today and annoyed my mother. so she couldn't calm down from me making her mad this morning and it went on all day and my father only intensified it. glad i could at least figure it out so it hurts a little less.
after dinner tonight, reading something and watching some youtube that really comforted me, and then listening to some music while doing cups work after ages - it felt good. i wish i could spend more time doing just this and forget about school. i actually felt good and even felt like singing along for a bit.
then coming to my bed with the laptop to type this out while sitting with my blanket and hugging my pillow. love my pillow. speaking of pillows, i better go to bed now, it's getting very late.
That is actually a really good description of your day. I know how hard it was to see your day from the "reverse" I survived okay side when it was rough with your parents.
I am especially glad that you loved the English lesson and realizing there are lots of people fighting the same battle as you. And you found a library book that you could read as a distraction. Excellent. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 thank you! i'm really glad you liked the description hehe.
friday (24th jan): somehow i wasn't that horrifically sleepy this morning despite not sleeping much and not sleeping well. guess t hat's good?
when i got to school, i was able to start working on some very old chemistry homework and kinda almost get it done. then history was a free period when i finished the rest and also got some other stuff done. somehow when i'm at school, it's easier to get work done and i tend to procrastinate less. because so many people can see me, you know.
my friend was kinda too excited today which i don't really like, but we did still manage to have a few good moments laughing and her just keeping me distracted.
the girl who always comes to me and my frined during breaks, without being asked to and despite being ignored sometimes, didn't come today. she was either absent or has decided not to come to us anymore. we find her annoying because she's always the one talking and never lets us talk to each other. so we're both glad to not see her today. and yesterday too and get some time to talk to each other alone.
okay i have other stuff to write but am too sleepy.
Glad that you are able to get more work done now that you are at school. It is weird how that happens that way sometimes. @exuberantBlackberry9105
@bestVase7265 oh lol i've been at school for a while, but this doesn't always happen. it only happens sometimes when i know what i have to do and we get lots of free periods.
sadly, i no longer remember what else i even thought i would say.
hey, i'm sorry i haven't been posting lately. just been going to bed really late and not having time or energy for this and been kinda busy with schoolwork. i'm sorry. i hope to get back to this habit soon.
tuesday (28th jan): it is quite late right now, 1 am, and i'm sleepy to i cant elaborate much but some of my good moments today have been some lovely interactions on cups, and some stuff that made me laugh in school though school was awful in general. getting some work done in school and little talking with someone in the morning when the class is empty except us two. the sun looked wonderful while we walked to our field trip destination. and of course washing my hair, which makes me feel awake and kinda fresh.
then laying in bed and cupsing a bit this evening. also getting some homework done, though very little and basic, when i thought i wouldn't be able to do anything today. and i tidied up my room. today for the first time in ages, i have done some homework, have spent a fair amount of time on cups, and am also going to bed in a clean, tidy room. these three things hardly ever all happen in one day.
and the biggest good moment for today, being able to kinda annoy my school friend by not sending her today's notes till she asked for them. for some reason it felt so good. and then she was online when i was sending them. and her astonishment was just so wonderful. it made me laugh so hard. she thought none of the classes would happen today and thus randomly skipped school. and most of the classes ended up happening. her reaction was just so fun to watch. she ruined most of my day today but eventually did make me laugh at her.
sorry everything is in random order today. i'm sleepy and don't have time. hopefully from tomorrow, i'll post on this thread daily and with a little more elaboration, clarity and order of events.
oh, and the comfort of my bed, only and only when i'm supposed to get up in the morning. it can feel so uncomfy at night in the morning it's always great hehe.
A very successful day if you were able to do all three things that make you feel a little better! Glad that your situation with your friend ended up laughable! @exuberantBlackberry9105
wednesday (29th jan): my day was going so well until 11 am today. everything was going alright and i was actually feeling pretty good.
i got a little more than usual sleep last night and i think i slept a bit better. when i woke up, i felt quite alright and not too sleepy or anything. i didn't fall asleep on the way to school today.
in school, i got to getting my books organised while talking to this classmate whose bus also gets to school early. somehow it feels good temporarily, even though i dont like her.
then assembly on the basketball court. i had taken off my sweatshirt as soon as i got to school so it was nice being outside without a sweatshirt in the very slight cold. we then had mass drill class and were left to play. my friend and i had some fun just roaming around while talking and playing catch-catch. lol. 9th graders playing catch-catch.
then in english class, i could somehow not get too stressed even though i have a lot of work left to do. and in history, i got my notebook back and the teacher didnt notice the blank pages in the middle of my notebool that i had just glued together. i even got two "Neat!" remarks along with two little stars. ⭐
my mother was kinda fun when i just got home from school today. it really helped after the disaster i had today in physics class that ruined my day.
i was feeling really down and decided to watch some youtube. and i actually found something that made me cry. it helped, and also reminded me of the kindness of this world. also, i just realised that when i just naturally start crying, it doesn't help but it helps when i watch/read something that makes me cry, then it helps.
i figured i can stay home from school tomorrow so i can rest a bit and catch up with old work. it feels good to me so far.
my mother made dosas for dinner today. they were really nice, and so was the potato sabzi. i finisbed my dinner quite quickly.
i'm not sure if anything else happened, i'm really sleepy right now. time for me to go to head hehe. bye bye.
I haven't read the stuff about the physics on the other page yet, but you really frame what happened in the rest of the day around it well. I especially liked you being outside and just playing for a bit. You deserve that after all the hard work that you do. @exuberantBlackberry9105
Oh, and I should post something nice about my day too. We also had a nice dinner tonight that was especially good because we went out and I didn't have to cook it. I had lots of different kinds of dips and salad with pita bread. It was also nice to just have some relaxed conversation with my husband and son after a crazy few days starting the semester. @exuberantBlackberry9105
