This year at the Brighton Festival I went to see the show Every Brilliant Thing. It was amazing! Brilliant even!
The story is about a guy who, trying to deal with his mother’s depression, starts a list of every brilliant thing in the world. He tried to leave them non-materialistic. It starts like this:
- Ice cream
- Water fights
- Things with stripes
- Christopher Walken’s voice
- Rollercoasters
(This is the entry I got to read out loud, nr 777,777:)
and it goes on and on and on, the list encompasses nearly 1 million brilliant things! I really recommend you go and see it if it comes to ‘a town near you’ 🙂 It’s wonderfully uplifting and makes you wanna start a list yourself!
And that’s exactly what I did…. I reckon I’ll work on it in the future 🙂
- a summer breeze in the stifling heat
- a good, heart-felt hug
- a soft, sweet white wine
- the world/ universe of Harry Potter
- starting a new book on a summer’s day in the park
- sweet popcorn
- fairy lights
- the beginning of a F.R.I.E.N.D.S. marathon (and the rest of course but that’s just too big of a concept to handle right now)
- artificial flowers (because I hate seeing real ones die)
- anything cat-related (really, anything)
- spontaneous afternoons off work
- sunshine
- the smell of freshly baked anything, especially bread
- the colour of green in spring and summer
- crafting (of course)
- 99 cone of ice cream
- new technology
- a good conversation that covers everything and anything
- having a few close friends, not a lot of acquaintances
- lamb (sorry to the veggies out there)
- sitting on the sofa watching food programs snuggled into a big duvet (in winter)
- good storytelling in movies (e.g. Good Will Hunting)
- the smell of parks
- the smell of autumn
- sitting in the sun with nothing around except a strolling cat
- BBQs
I think I wanna keep this up… It really, really makes you feel great about life. What a beautiful idea and thing to share with people ❤
What would be on your list?
Leave a comment