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What it's like to eat ice cream for the first time

Feel-good Fridays: Can you remember what your first lick of ice cream was like? This adorable video reminds us that it was likely love at first taste.
By Flannery Dean
PGA champ Lorie Kane's favourite places in Charlottetown, PEI, Cows Ice Cream Shop Photo, Masterfile.

Inspiration and those all too infrequent a-ha moments can come from the unlikeliest places.

On the hunt for a moment of illumination — what better way to end a long week — I’ve spent much of the morning watching videos intended to inspire people to live life to the fullest and embrace their innate nature. I watched Oprah guru, Eckhart Tolle offer some solid and practical advice on how people can get more out of life by doing less — basically, take out your earbuds and listen to the birds sing. And then I listened to a handful of celebs and thinkers such as India Arie and Maya Angelou offer their  “best advice”.

It was interesting viewing, sure. But nothing beats this adorable video (via Gawker.com) of a baby girl getting her first taste of ice cream for overall uplift and joy.

In the 37-second video, the stroller-bound little one gets her first lick of what looks to be a vanilla waffle cone. Her reaction — a slight pause to consider this new taste and then instant bug-eyed delight — is priceless and in its sheer sweetness may make up for a week’s worth of work and domestic frustration.

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For me the video offers a necessary reminder that not everything in life has to be analyzed and broken down into feelings or thoughts that then get broken down even further into motivations, etc. (I'm getting a headache just thinking about how often I reduce my day to a miserable list of worries and anxieties.) Watching the video it's abundantly clear that life is a thing to be enjoyed. Kind of like a vanilla ice cream waffle cone.

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