What are the positive things you love and why?

I am on the phone with my good friend D Dave_dutchman , and he has kindly shared with me a rap that he wrote. He recited it for me once, and I insisted on having him do it a second time so I could type it out for you all:

Dad Rap

(Verse 1)
I'm always handing out advice,
Like cut once and measure twice.
My New Balance are thrice as nice,
Pants jacked up high as satellites.

My belt strapped on and my shirt tucked in
Drip so sick, need penicillin
I wear my watch 'cause I know the time,
When the dad's talking, act a like a mime.

(Chorus)
Got big dad energy
Tell you an old story

Mow the lawn and get stuff done
Droppin' jokes on everyone

Got big dad energy
Say walk it off when you scrape your knee

Now its time to press your slacks
Take a baby Aspirin, prevent a heart attack

(verse 2)
One in the hand is worth two in the bush
If you question me I'll say shush
Dad rap straight spittin' facts
My knowledge melt you like you was wax

Can't hold a candle to this flame
That's the name of the game
I say things like that's how the cooking crumbles
Remember where you came from and stay humble

(Chorus)
Got big dad energy
Before you leave you better pee

My beard is going gray
Stop you and ask how's your day

Got big dad energy
He'll help you move for free

Go fire up the barbeque
Find that dad energy in you!
 
My addition to this will be tame by the standards mentioned of family, friends, puppies, nature, and sunsets but this is just one positive thing I enjoy.

I don't just like a good story but the memories that last from them. And it can be from any form of media books, movies, shows, plays, video games, music, anything. If it leaves that lasting memory from a scene that was set someway or other then it counts.

I remember being young and sitting there in the theater only to realize Darth Vader is Luke's father. Mind blown.

The first time I read my way through The Deed of Paksenarrion and in my mind it hit just as hard as seeing the Lord of the Rings trilogy on the big screen. If you like fantasy and mix in someone who was a Marine and writes with that boots on the ground mindset of experience they you might like that series. Fantastic character development that almost makes you think it was first hand experience.

Or the whole YOU SHALL NOT PASS only to end in the hastily whispered, Fly, you fools! To be able to defeat a massive otherworldly enemy only to be taken down at the last second as you look up to your friends that want too much to risk it all to save you but you have to send them away. And then fall... Woof. I knew it was coming having read the books but seeing it so well done is a next level feeling.

Apologies for it being sacrilegious music but the first time I listened beginning to end of Ozzy's Ultimate Sin and that whole album hit hard for me. A close second was first hearing Megadeth's A Tout Le Monde. Fantastic song that even today I turn up the volume (not to 11) as I'm driving.

This one is hard to condense down. Played a video game where it's basically the mole people came up and invaded and we have pretty much lost to them. Your teammate always carries this locket with a picture of his lost wife who was captured and may be prisoner, labor camp, or worst case dead. But he keeps the faith alive that he will find her. Plot points later and he does find her. The "camera" is panning around them with him embracing her and it shows her just like the picture in the locket. But it hit me fast there's no way she can look the same, she's been locked away underground for years now this makes no sense why would they make such an obvious mistake this is kinda lame and kills the vibe of the scene and OH NO OH NO the scene is changing. So they made the image of what he remembered her looking like to the husk of what was left of her as she's now dying in his arms. And I don't care if it's "just a video game" that scene was better than I had seen Hollywierd pump out lately at that point in time.

Back when Star Trek the Next Generation was still new on the air there was a bit where Picard said something like, You're capable of not making mistakes and yet still losing; that's not weakness that's life. That statement stuck with me and I still think about it sometimes.

This last one is as much the memory of arguing with friends as it was watching the movie. We argued over the meaning of "Rosebud". I stand by what I thought he meant.

I dated a woman in my twenties that was far classier than I was and she wanted me to take her to an opera, Of Mice and Men. I was not a "go to an opera" kind of guy. I fully became a "go to an opera" kind of guy.

In retrospect I meant this all as one thing but several examples of that one thing to make any kind of sense.
 
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