Your "happy place"

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Do you have a "happy place", either physical or a place you go in your mind? Where do you go, or what do you think about, that makes you feel completely at peace?

Mine is sitting by a river, watching the water flow by, and the birds and turtles going about their day. Watching a hawk or osprey soaring overhead is the best. All my troubles seem to be lifted up and away.

What's this "happy" you speak of?

My happy place is usually in my bedroom in front of my laptop.

Well what I really like is a good American Diner style restaurant. I used to work the night shift in Lansing, Michigan and was usually up late on my off days to.

I liked to go to this local place called The Fleetwood Diner at 3am. I enjoyed driving there at night when the city was slowed down. I'd sit at the counter having many refills of coffee and a Greek Omelet with hot chili sauce on it. Afterwards I might go for a walk around Michigan Avenue by the capital building or the Red Cedar Bike Trail.

I'm not in Lansing anymore but anytime I'm moving through a city when it's quiet at 3am and I stop by for breakfast or a burger at a diner counter I just feel content.

I used to have one. It was the place where my grandparents lived. They had a house by the river. It was quite isolated from other people and the nature was so beautiful there. I could just sit under a huge tree by the river for hours with no one disturbing me.
My grandparents are gone now and the place is sold but I still go there in my mind. That's my happy place.

I meditate.

My mind is my happy place.

My room definitely. Computer desk , and my bed.

My "happy place" is my imaginary world. For a while it took place in a single country called Aspergeria. But ever since I started getting into sci-fi, Aspergeria has been changed into a planet (more specifically, the home planet of myself and my imaginary fraternal twin sister) and the adventures of myself and all of my imaginary friends now take place all across different galaxies and even alternate universes, aboard our spacecraft, the Intrepid.

Mine is the TV area of my apartment, where I post on my Wii.

Of course, my true happy place is the one-centered non-dual knowledge/existence/bliss etc etc.
But beyond that mine is one of a number of actual physical locations....

The Balm-Boyette Scrub wilderness
The Ocala National Forest
Smoky Mountain National Park
Acadia National Park
Big Sur

I go there. I'm happy. It's that easy.

There's a certain tree, by a certain river, near a certain cave in the town I grew up in.

The tree is a sugar maple, the river runs slow and muddy, and the cave is little more than an overhang, but when I go there, it seems that I am the only person in the world, and I can finally relax, let my guard down, and have a good cry.

It's been 22 years since I've been there...

the library for sure. its where i have always felt protected and safe and at peace. there is no safer haven than between the shelves stacked high with books smelling sweetly of must, warm sunshine filtering through those heavily laden towers, slience echoing through the building. one of my favourites is fisher library at sydney uni. specifically level 8. it is dark, warm, quiet and abandoned. you can do whatever you please between its narrow, high shelves and no one will notice or care. also the queer youth group i go to. the building is old, small and crammed full of stimuli- books, art, posters, food, banners and there is no homophobia, transphobia or sexism.

My room on computer listening to music or in my mind crushing on Miranda Cosgrove or doing that while on comp in my room listening to her music