http://imgur.com/zz726

His name is Bleu. He is my world!

Hello guys, I created this subreddit to get the good out of others lives. I'm sure were all tired of hearing about hundreds of breaking news happening on a daily basis (globally and locally).

Lets lighten the mood a bit, so tell your story about something that happened or recently happened that made you feel good. It's always nice to hear these types of stories and we can all learn from them and hopefully pass it on.

With that, I'll leave it up to the good people of Reddit to make this community shine.

It has been a while since I've heard of why people are happy today. All I hear about on the news is casualties, money for reparations.. Etc.... I'm happy because someone has had the initiative to create a subreddit just about being happy. I have a feeling once this gets up and going it will really brighten someone's day!

Putting only "I'm happy because..." in the title.

This sub reddit would work much better if it was handled the way Firstworldproblems is in terms of titles. Put the reason (or at least a part of it) in the title so I don't have to click to find out why you're happy. Feel free to expand in the text, I'd love to read about why you're happy if I can relate.

If you all could do this it would make ME happy.

Thanks! And stay happy!

My cat although sick does not have cancer like the vet thought she did. here is a beautiful picture of my baby.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/66778422@N07/6080381606/

Then i made this comic about it to help spread the word. http://imgur.com/GCRTi?full

After 10 months, I can finally stop thinking about her.

I am a healthy, decent looking young man with an exceptional knack for learning. I am self-aware, and am able to have conscious thoughts about what ever I wish. I am free.

I've married my best friend. The love of my life. This man is not only a great leader for our little family, but a hard worker and extremely intelligent. His heart is huge and he's the funniest man I've ever met. He still manages to make my heart race and give me butterflies in my tummy when he walks into the room. I can't imagine my life with anyone else. He makes me happy, really very happy.

I'm just starting so I'm happy with what I have!

I have an amazing and beautiful girlfriend that loves me and is currently serving in Afghanistan. http://i.imgur.com/WYwnT.jpg

This is my first reddit post so be nice. Tbh I don't care if I get downvoted. My husband is a wonderful man. By time he turned 20 he was already a certified emt working at the local fire station. Now he is enlisted in the navy as an fmf corpsman. He lives to help people in need, but also, along with that, he strives to make me the happiest woman in the world. I love him with all my heart, and he loves me too. Unfortunately because I'm also enlisted in the navy, we can't see each other often, but that doesn't stop him from making me feel loved every day. I know it's mushy, but that's why I'm happy.

I'm happy because my girlfriend cheated on me. This may make some people wonder why I'm happy, but it made me realize that hey, if she is going behind my back she's not the right girl for me. Sometimes you just have to look at positive aspects of negative situations, if she does that to you then obviously she is not worth having!

Best feeling ever :)

My dog is always ridiculously happy to see me, no matter how long I've been away from home.

My son was born 10 weeks early. I had severe preeclampsia while I was pregnant and had to have an emergency c-section. He was born 2lbs 12oz. He was SO tiny and had to stay in the NICU for almost 2 months due to him being so early and suffered from apnea and jaundice. It was one of the hardest things I've had to face. Him being mine and my husband's first baby, we were so worried. But God took care of him. He gave our son the best of care. The NICU he was in was amazing, with wonderful nurses and doctors. Today, my son is 4 months old. He's almost 11lbs and is completely healthy and happy. He's my little miracle. We named him Victor after my husband's grandfather. A fitting name I think, he really is a victor! My son makes me happy, and he encourages me to be a better person. He makes me appreciate life more than I ever have.

Today is a great day!

Because even though I'm broke as shit, everything I own is in disrepair, and I can't get a job to save my life, I have the most supportive friends that make me want to carry myself through each day.

I'm twenty years-old and it seems like half the people I know have at least one child, but usually more. I'm happy that I don't have that responsibility. While other people my age (and younger) are changing diapers and up feeding the baby at 3 in the morning, I can go out and have a good time and enjoy being young. I can spend my money on frivolous shit instead of worrying about formula and baby wipes. If I decided to move to Europe on a whim, I totally could.

In other words, I'm happy that I have my freedom.

I had a cheerful thought the other day. What with the riots and the poverty and the general unpleasantness, I figured I'd share it in case you needed something cheerful too.

When I was fixing my telly, I found out about a strange little problem that old rear-projection TV's tend to develop. In a CRT rear-projection, you have three cathode guns in separate chassis, one each for red, blue and green. They sit at the bottom of the set, pointing upwards, and their light is reflected from a great big mirror and onto the front of the set for you to see.

On top of each CRT is a very delicate lens that enlarges the picture, like a big magnifying glass. Exposure to too much heat will damage the lens, so in between the CRT and the lens is a reservoir of clear cooling fluid.

This stuff is nasty. It's poisonous, electrically conductive, and generally not something you want to flavour your tea with. Because it's conductive (and mounted right on top of a set of very sensitive circuitry), the reservoir has to be very carefully sealed - one drop of spillage will easily destroy the TV.

Algae will eventually develop in the fluid. Worse on the blue guns, sometimes on the green, never on the red - the algae can't form in that wavelength. This turns your picture orange and blurry, necessitating a fiddly and complicated fluid change.

It might be a bit silly of me, but thought it was kind of remarkable that in a reservoir of poison, sealed forever from the outside world, exposed to unreasonable levels of heat and regularly saturated with X-ray radiation, life can form, flourish and evolve. No matter what the conditions, there'll be something that can come to life in them.

So the next time you're feeling down, remember... it could be worse. You could be the TV repairman who has to change the fluid while trying not to think too hard about whether he's wiping out a tiny civilization.

Sleep well.

I've been a second degree black belt in karate for a while, so I had mostly forgotten the joys of gaining new ranks. Then last week after months of training I reach Green Belt in Yoshitsune Jujutsu. So I'm happy :D

Reddit, you have no idea how humiliating it is to be working at a near minimum wage job in retail when you have a finance degree from a well known university and experience in your field. It was a horrible, scarring experience, but it is finally over! I got a job with a great company (didn't get a bailout! doesn't lay people off!) with superb benefits (Health insurance! Paid holidays! Paid vacation! Vision! Dental! 20% off Chinese hookers!). Not only that, but everything else in my life is going great, too. The weather is nice, the local sports teams are winning, I'm listening to Prince, I refinanced my debt at a MUCH lower rate, and most importantly, I got not one but TWO FREE ONION RINGS IN MY BURGER KING FRIES!!! Fuck yeah!

It is an amazing feeling.

I truly have been my own worst enemy lately, my self esteem has always been poor, but these last few months have been the absolute worst for me. I feel worthless, I feel fat, I feel ugly, my house is a mess, I'm having issues keeping with my diet, I don't know what I want to do with my life.

But right now...It has all gone quiet, and I am finally able to take a minute for myself. It feels like the calm in the eye of the storm. I like it.

I met the love of my life two years ago, and I didn't even know it until recently. We live on opposite sides of the state and we met by chance- we work at the same sleepaway camp during the summer. We are madly in love and very busy planning our future together. I've waited a long time for this and that's why I'm so happy.

I will be tutoring kids, but I don't care. It's a JOB. :D