This is going to be a unique Thanksgiving for me. I mean, it’s not like they all aren’t unique in some way, but in the last couple of weeks, I’ve been forced, through my own doing, to look around me and decide what really matters.
I guess we spend a lot of time doing this, I mean those of us who over analyze (you call it obsess, I call it growth– tomato, tomahto) and spent the better part of our twenties wracking our brains do, anyway. But this Thanksgiving I feel like I’m giving myself a little bit of a break. It’s not really intentional, just a by-product of voluntarily turning your own life upside-down, and of not knowing what’s ahead. Of accepting that I don’t know what’s ahead.
What I’m saying is, I can sit here now, in my home, and know that what I’m thankful for, what I’m blessed to have, are the very things I’m investing myself and my time in every single day. The moment I was able to look around and see that will forever be burned into my memory.
Hilly says:
Thank you for this post. I woke up in a crankalicious mood and as the day has progressed, I too have been able to let all of this positivity into my soul and look at the happy stuff rather than the bad.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:39 am
barbara says:
Willie makes a very good point, and so do you. Even though I am woefully turkeyless, I am counting my blessings too.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pm