What's a simple pleasure in life?

Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

Came to mind before opening comments, was not disappointed.
Yeah, +1 to this
BTW, I too am a huge fan of Bambi. Great movie.
Or good dentition…

Cats purring. It's my favourite sound in the entire world

Milk and chocolate chip cookies

They can only be a good thing

Drinking water with ice in it.

Naps.

Hugs

A fresh pot of rice.

Cooking for those you love

cloud watching

Also watching sunrises or sunsets.

Cheap fun (sex)

Chocolate with a cup of tea or coffee

Nitrous oxide

Walk. Read. Write. Sketch.

Which are things that can easily (and cheaply) be done together. Go out have a walk, take a pocketbook, a pencil and a pocket notebook with you. Go sit in park, or any nice place you prefer, and start reading the book. Close the book. Get the pencil and notebook out of your pocket and start writing about what you just read. Or about the things you see around you. And why not sketch them too, using the same pencil and notebook?

Why do I bother carrying an extra pocketbook, notebook and a pencil and not simply use my phone? Easy: I want to enjoy those moments, I want them to help me feel better, not worse. With those there is notification to ruin the moment, there is constant anxiety and no fomo either.

Which, to me at least, is another very 'simple pleasure' I get in life: not having any social media apps on my phone.

Thank you so much for that inspiration! I am seriously considering changing back to a dumbphone. The permanent checking and scrolling does me in, and I want my analog life back. Got myself a pile of printed books now I just have to remember to take one of them out and dare to make notes or draw in public.
- You're more than welcome. I'm real glad to hear you got yourself a pile of books. That's great, hope you will enjoy them :)
  The permanent checking and scrolling does me in, and I want my analog life back.
  Getting back to analog can help fight that. Like stepping out of a roller-coaster can help realize the world around us may not be that stupid crazily spinning place it was the instant before.
  now I just have to remember to take one of them out and dare to make notes or draw in public.
  Just start doing it and be ok with the fact that you will probably feel silly for a while doing it in public. That feeling will go away if you keep on doing it and it will just become another habit of yours.
  For me, that odd feeling lasted the longer with sketching. I have no artistic talent at all, I just enjoy sketching so doing it in public felt real awkward. I just kept at it and today I can stop right in my tracks in the middle of a busy sidewalk to sketch whatever I noticed, or to take some notes. I just don't care.
  I am seriously considering changing back to a dumbphone.
  If it helps: don't forget you don't need to spend any money on a new phone. You can easily 'dumb down' your smartphone. That's what I did with mine: it's a smartphone with no app installed on it beside the very few apps I really need (things like banking, security and 2FA). I even removed the email. I don't browse the Web with it. There is nothing that urgent that I need to be able to answer immediately or that I need to check it online when I'm out, it can wait for to be back home (and I fear I might forget I can always write a short not in my notebook).
  That phone is really nothing but an expensive dumbphone, but it works great for me since it doesn't force to live like the Luddite I'm not ;)

Watching my kid eat well. These days that's enough to make me feel calm and contented.

Breathing

That first cup of coffee, while it's hot but not too hot.

Taking your dog on a walk in the forrest shade on a hot summer day