《生命中最美好的事都是免费的》：你好，小确幸.docVIP

《生命中最美好的事都是免费的》：你好，小确幸 　　尼尔?帕斯理查 　　尼尔?帕斯理查（Neil Pasricha），加拿大知名博主、作家及演说家。尼尔于1979年9月出生于加拿大安大略省，父亲为印度裔移民，母亲为肯尼亚裔移民。他曾就读于加拿大顶尖学府女王大学（Queen’s University），工作几年后又去往哈佛商学院（Harvard Business School）攻读MBA。然而，让尼尔成名的并不是其光鲜的履历，而是他于2008年创立的全球第一个记录美好生活瞬间的博客――1000 Awesome Things （）。该博客在极短的时间内席卷欧美国家，并使尼尔在2009年至2010年间三次获得有“互联网奥斯卡”之称的威比奖（The Webby Awards）最佳博客奖。同时，尼尔基于博客内容相继出版了《美好的事》（The Book of Awesome）、《生命中最美好的事都是免费的》（The Book of [Even More] Awesome）、《假期中美好的事》（The Book of [Holiday] Awesome）等作品。这些作品出版后常常登上《纽约时报》畅销书的榜单。 　　Excerpts1） 　　When a Baby Falls Asleep on You 　　You’re a human pillow. 　　Feel that tiny heart beating on your chest， that strawberrysized hand gripping your finger， and those baby powder breaths softly whispering in and out ... 　　When you were a little baby you fell asleep on people all the time. Now that you’re all grown up you’re helping another life on its way. And just think： One day way off in the distance this softly sleeping snuggler2） will be doing the exact same thing for someone else. 　　AWESOME！ 　　Watching Cream Go into Coffee 　　Swirling seas of milky white twist and twirl like strange and distant galaxies3） in the far corners of outer space. As you grab a rushed coffee break in the chatty workplace cafeteria or cutlery4）-clinking dining hall， just stare deeply into your chipped ceramic5） telescope and enjoy the two-second escape from reality to watch those floating clouds mix and melt deep into the swirling darkness. 　　AWESOME！ 　　That One Person Who Laughs When You Tell a Really Bad Joke 　　This is also known as The Pity Laugh and it somehow manages to save your terrible joke from being a complete bomb. See， now you didn’t serve up a dud6） that hit dead air. No， no， your humor is just a little highbrow7） and hard to understand， that’s all. 　　AWESOME！ 　　Taking Your High Heels Off at the End of the Night and Walking Home in Bare Feet 　　Give your tired， aching soles a soothing break after a long day of painful slave labor. 　　It just feels li