A year ago I realized that I had so many beautiful things in this moment but I was so focused on my dreams for the future that I'd forgotten how good I had it. In an effort to have the 20/20 vision that usually comes along with hindsight I re-analyzed and found I needed nothing to be happy, content, and full of life. Instead of remembering the good old days, we can focus on the good old Now.
Since everything in this gift of life is going so beautifully (sometimes I have to keep repeating that idea to make it through the day, see I'm not nauseously optimistic) it's time to take one dream that's been occupying my brainpower and make it a reality. That dream is to finish a book. Why not make it a positive book that gives a fresh outlook?
I'm grateful for the ups and downs. I'm grateful for falling when I'm standing on top of the world. I'm grateful for my soul mates and soul families. I'm grateful for the ones who told me to write about the beauty I saw in life when I was complaining about being bored with it. I'm grateful for being able to share it with you.
Some of the things these entries may encourage you to be grateful for have been polluted, diluted, damaged. But how can anything be repaired unless we are first grateful for it? Keep the negative and pessimistic thoughts out of you while you read this. When you fall and scrape your knee, do you think badly of the knee for being damaged? Or is that the time you look back and reminisce about the good old knee? No!
So stand up, brush off your dirty knees, and be grateful for them. Even if they're scraped. Even if they hurt. Even if they have arthritis. Even if you can't use them anymore. Even if you only have one. These are the little details that cloud our minds and leave us wanting. As long as you are wanting you are not being grateful. And if you just can't bring yourself to be grateful for your knees. . . be grateful for your elbows instead.
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