What's the activity, state, location, situation - anything - that gives you the greatest enjoyment in life? The most pleasure, the most contentment, the most bliss, the most happiness. Or your top 3 things, if you can't choose just one. Thanks!
Ask HN: What's your greatest enjoyment in life?
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#2Having a meeting I don't like get cancelled.
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#3Cliche, but good family time. Nothing beats a weekend where all my cousins, nieces and nephews are together. Its particularly fun now when all my cousins and siblings have kids and they’re all under four. It gets chaotic but also so much fun
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#4I will be tad shameless & mundane: I don't enjoy working after 9-6. No great intellectual side hobbies to burn the midnight oil. For me, two things give a lot of bliss:
1. Watching a new interesting show or a re-run on Netflix, sipping a cup of coffee (or having a few drags of vape occasionally).
2. Going on a long aimless drive with country music, and stopping somewhere along the coastline to enjoy the view of sea or ships sailing at a distance.
I don't have kids or pets. Living in Japan. The horrors of everyday dealing with GCP/AWS & Japanese office regimen needs occasional quenching by solitude.
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#5For most content, helping people by writing code. Not that cringe enterprise code, nor the framework-based “nice” code. The one that does the thing just like a short, perhaps blunt, phrase makes a point.
Getting blackout drunk etc once a year with my less responsible friends and wreak a little havoc at the place. Sinking couch in a pool, terrace broken by falling/wrestling, next day investigations, you get the idea. Going off the rails helps with stress much better than vacation (unless it’s included into the setting).
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#6Gardening, followed closely by woodworking
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#7Good food and anime.
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#8My daughter.
Nothing comes close.
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#9I'm about to be a dad this year. Every day as the date approaches, I am getting more excited and scared at the same time. Never felt anything like this. I recall the pure happiness without an ounce of worry when I was a kid, and I also get happy that I might have a chance to give this to my kid. At the same time, I feel a lot of pressure that I will fall short of being a good dad. I am yet to experience being a real dad yet, but I think this really might be the greatest enjoyment in my life.
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#10When someone I care about has a problem and I’m able to fix it. Nothing else feels quite as awesome or meaningful.
Conversely, nothing else feels quite as terrible as when someone I care about has an unfixable problem.