gratitude: noun the state of being grateful : THANKFULNESS
grateful: adjective 1 (a) appreciative of benefits received (b) expressing gratitude
2 (a) affording pleasure or contentment : PLEASING (b) pleasing by reason of comfort supplied or discomfort alleviated
It’s the season for being thankful, which somehow seems like a bittersweet thing. Thankfulness or gratefulness should be a constant pulse. It shouldn’t be a quality paraded about during some of the busiest months of the year.
I’m not pointing fingers or any such thing; I’m just as bad about complaining rather than praising. I get lost in the hustle and bustle of trying to figure out “what next” and of attempting to maintain some sort of sanity between a day job, a side business, CrossFit, volunteer work, and a limited social life. I, too, need to be reminded to be thankful. Perhaps it’s fitting that such a reminder comes during a busy holiday season. The season does, in a way, mirror life.
If gratefulness should be a steady piece of life, a metronome keeping time, how to incorporate it? How to keep it at the forefront of the mind? What would it take for me to keep thanksgiving in my heart even during the very bad, terrible, no-good days? I’m not sure, but I’m going to try to figure it out.
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