Comforting Thoughts

Growing up in Southern California, I was surrounded by coastal culture, which has influenced me in many ways. No matter whether I lived in San Diego or Ventura county, I was never more than ten minutes away from the beach. Every weekend, it seemed, my dad would take us to the beach as family so we could play in the water, build sandcastles, catch hermit crabs, see the tide pools, and most of all, spend time together. I was enchanted by all the beach had to offer. Every sandcastle built was a palace for a hermit crab and every tide pool a thriving community. Whenever I stepped into the water, my imagination would run wild. Despite how often we went, I always enjoyed our days at the beach.

land where the animals roam freely. We then moved north to Encinitas for a couple of days on the ocean with daughter Sammy and her boyfriend.

We lived in a small house on a Navy base on the east side of the island in a city called Ceiba. All of the houses were nearly identical, all of them small, grey and made of concrete to protect against hurricanes. There was a park in my backyard that all the kids from the neighborhood would come to play at, but even better for me, there was a mysterious patch of woods behind that park. I would spend most of my days there walking along the trail and looking for interesting flowers, eat wild bananas straight from the tree, and sometimes finding iguana eggs.

Hawaii was definitely one of my favorite places to live. I definitely had the most fun living there. Our family would go to the beach often, and I had many great experiences with them. I remember it always being beautiful outside, and that memory has stuck with me

Happiness is one of the most significant dimensions of human experience. Many people can argue that happiness is a meaningful and desirable entity. Studies indicate that everyone pursues happiness in various aspects of their life. Our four fathers saw happiness as a need, so they made the pursuit of happiness as one of the three unalienable rights branded in the Declaration of Independence. There is a sense of complexity behind the meaning of happiness; its definition is not definite. Think of happiness as a rope; there are many thin fiber strands bonded together to become the strength of the rope. Like the analogy of the rope, there are numerous factors that can contribute to an individual’s overall happiness in life. This study is going to

A moment of contentment is more than pretty scenery, it’s a moment in time where I let go of my thoughts. When I am truly content my eyes close. I see nothing, I hear nothing, and I feel nothing. I am just existent. My serene moment came last summer while vacationing at the beach.

Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?

The peaceful and joyous setting of

I am the happiest when I am at the beach. Just to put it all together , I love it so much because when I was younger Florida was kind of my second home and I have just grown to love it. We still go every summer and when summer comes I just can't wait to get down there and lay on the beach and listen to the waves, smell the salt water and sunscreen. I mean let us all be real here and say that we all love going to the beach and relaxing. To get away from a tiring school year and those hard days at work. So as you can see I am the happiest when I am at the

Simply walking out of my front door can do the trick.  The outside world is quite the peaceful place.  Leaves rustling in the wind, birds chirping, the breeze whispering as time moves on.  I could go sit under my tree in the backyard and relax with a nice book.

Every summer,my family has the tradition of going down to Wildwood Beach for a week . Wildwood is like home to me. There I have countless memories such as riding a huge 12 person bike, ordering zeppoles for breakfast and getting the icecream truck at midnight every year. The beach is where we all saw my baby cousin's first steps and where I went on walks during sunset with my papa before he passed. Every year we all count down the days to be down there, all together, to make even more memories. The beach represents me in so many ways . I love the feeling of the sand on my feet and the calmness I get being

A place in my life where i feel perfectly content is the baseball field. This is because when i'm on the field i can be standing in the outfield in my natural position and hear quiet. Another reason is when u hear the hard knock of the bat hitting the ball and looking up with the ball flying right towards you. Smack The ball hits my glove the game and then I realized that my team had won the game.

I am an very laid back and love nothing more than to have a good time

As a kid I spent more time on the beach, or by a body of water than I did in my own house. Even though each body of water is different I loved all the same. beach, lakes, rivers, even pools, all had its unique smells, textures, colors, and memories.

The place where I feel most comfortable is a place where I am calm. A place that is peaceful in its own ways. It is the place to go to get away from all my troubles. It is the one place where I could sit forever, and never get tired of just staring into the deepest blue I have ever seen. It is the place where I can sit and think the best. A place where nothing matters but what is in that little moment. The one place capable of sending my senses into an overload. This place is the ocean.