The Book of Awesome
Neil Pasricha
Language: English
Pages: 416
ISBN: 0425238903
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile. Sometimes it's tempting to feel the world is falling apart. But awesome things are all around us:
- Popping bubble wrap
- The smell of rain on a hot sidewalk
- The other side of the pillow
- Hitting a bunch of green lights in a row
- Waking up and realizing it's Saturday
- Fixing electronics by smacking them
- Being the first table called up to the dinner buffet at a wedding
- When the cashier opens a new lane at the grocery store
- The moment at a concert after the lights go out and before the band comes on stage
- When you're really tired and about to fall asleep and someone throws a blanket on you
- Sleeping in new bedsheets
- Finding an old mix tape
- Intergenerational dancing
- High-fiving babies
- Bakery air
- Snow days
The Book of Awesome reminds us that the best things in life are free. Based on the award-winning, multimillion hit blog 1000awesomethings.com, it's a high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments. With wise, witty observations from #1 international bestselling author Neil Pasricha this treasure trove is filled with smile-inducing musings that make readers feel like kids looking at the world for the first time.
AWESOME!
Interspecies action – figure wars When you go out for lunch and come back to a way better parking spot When the free bread they bring you at the restaurant is warm Taking off your glasses or contact lenses after a long day The moment at a concert when the crowd figures out what song they’re playing That one car that randomly travels with you on the highway for a really long time An inbox of personal emails when you wake up in the morning Passing under a bridge on the highway when it’s
Pounder, right? Well this was a two-hundredpounder. • Vending Machine. Here’s where you duct-tape little bags of chips and chocolate bars all over your body. If your party’s working properly, they’ll be ripped off you within ten minutes of getting there. • The Random Closet Mishmash with a Funny Name. You’ve got a purple tie, dark shades, and leather pants so you go as a Club-Going Comedian With A Black Eye. You’ve got a bridesmaid dress, oven mitts, and a tiara, so you go as Lounge Singer
supermarket celebration. AWESOME! Slurping hot soup on a cold night Say it’s a cold, bone-shivering night. Say there’s snow shooting sharp, shooting sideways, shooting into your eyes, and the wind is just howling and twirling into mini-tornadoes, slicing and dicing deep through your coat and into your chest. Your fingers are icicles, your nose a dented, frozen strawberry, and your cheeks look like someone ran them over with a cheese grater a few times. On nights like this, just face it:
Nick started up a rant of his own. “You know, you would think my glue movie would be The Usual Suspects,” he began. “I can pick it up anywhere and knowing the twist makes every scene more interesting. Like, what’s true, what’s made up? I’ve seen it twenty times and I still don’t know. But then again, it’s completely unwatchable when edited for television. In the police lineup scene they say something like ‘Hand me the keys, you very large cockroach.’ It’s awful. So ... now that I think about it,
your jaw drops because you can hardly believe you’re seeing your old friend’s face right in front of you again. Chills rocket up your spine, love sucker-punches your chest, and big salty tears well in the corners of your eyes before streaming like hot rivers down your chubby cheeks. You laugh, sniffle, and shake your head before giving the person beside you a big hug and smiling up at the world. Clouds part, bugles blare, and everything suddenly fills up with the giant swelling sensation of