Of gratitude and its magnitude
“Thank you for…” I always advocate practicing gratitude. I appreciate being grateful and nostalgic about people, places, and situations that have occurred in my life, often beyond what I had imagined. But sometimes, reality demands to be felt. Things happen, and changes come on all fronts. And you’re left with no choice but to move forward. Whatever time to be had in adjusting, you’re in the front seat, taking it all in WHILE adjusting. The change in management with the job you finally love. The change in personalities of the people you thought would forever be in your life. The supposed-to-be-changed and dealt-with stuff, but a decade down the road, they were falling back into the same old habits. These are shifts you never asked for. These are shifts that require time, but because life happens, you’re in it while trying to live with it. Difficult. Exhausting, even. You think of the many possibilities. You consider plans from A-Z. You thought, “So this is how things would go f...