What brings you joy and happiness or, what are you passionate about?

Community with people, whether they're friends or just acquaintances from hobby groups. Making art. Reading good fiction. A better physical state from exercise, etc.

Philosophizing. Programming and finally accomplish that very difficult task. Reading an unexpected revelation or an incredible quote in a book.

My weekend mornings are doing it for me this summer. I just sit in the garden watching the birds, and my cat running after them, while I drink coffee for at least an hour.

For me it's been getting into retro tech, some homelab stuff to

Finally doing my first ardupilot builds after years of watching rctestflight youtube videos...

Every Saturday and Sunday morning, I do my gardening.

I spend a few hours pruning my tomato plants, adding clips to hold up cucumber vines, check my eggplant and zucchinis, spray everything down because it all has powdery mildew, and I water all of my potted herbs and flowers. I start early, like 6:30-7am because no one is awake and all I can hear are birds chirping*. Eventually, the neighbors wake up and I can smell bacon cooking before I go inside and make my own breakfast.

*the birds chirping are usually from the hummingbird wars that take place on the hill behind my house. They zoom fast overhead and attack each other behind the hibiscus fence.

The last time I felt genuine happiness was when I heard my characters voices for the first time. The joy someone gets from hearing something they made become real is a happiness and excitement I can't explain

Playing my dobro or basses. Really, making music of just about any sort.

Making something and it works. Bonus points if other people think it's cool as well.

Competitive team video games as a way of having fun while getting to know yourself and others better.

I used to have a lot of things that brought joy/happiness, but the only one I have now is nature. Birds, trees, soil, bugs, lizards, rocks, clouds... Endlessly fascinating.

Anime! There's something about their way of storytelling that tugs my emotions no other medium can do.

I have never experienced such things, at least from what others have said what those things are, people try to explain it to me and it doesn't make much sense. I can understand passion but joy and happiness is such a odd concept to me. Like what gives me dopamine? Or things that you feel "good inside". It's all so confusing.