A little over a year ago, I wrote up a post that listed a rather random assortment of 50 things — small moments and feelings and notions that exist between life’s bigger happenings. Things that, when considered, turn out to be pretty significant matters in themselves. I love having that list to look back on when I’m stuck in a spell of feeling sorry or sad, or when I could use a reminder that life is so much more than the things I choose to assign weight to.
With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, I decided to model a post after that one. But instead of listing a medley of everyday things, here I’m calling out the 25 things I am most grateful for right now.
- The general health of the people I love most
- My own health
- Family — both by blood and by choice
- Animals (my dog Pearl specifically, but I’m quite happy all animals exist tbh)
- Home — both the one in California and the one I’ve made for myself in Tennessee
- The people who make home, home
- The roof over my head
- The bed I sleep in each night
- The job I have that I worked so hard to obtain
- The benefits I have access to on account of the job I secured
- The salary that gives me the freedom to purchase for both need and want
- A running vehicle and the means to fill up its tank regularly
- My education
- My parents for sponsoring said education
- Access to clean drinking water and nourishing food
- The means to travel and experience different ways of living and thinking
- The objective support of my family and friends to pursue life the way I choose to
- The independence, conviction, and self-love that I have procured
- The ability to feel a full spectrum of emotions, including sadness and anger
- Art — in all its wildly inspiring and entertaining forms
- Weekends
- Simple luxuries like coffee, cookies, and fuzzy slippers
- Good, honest people
- Mother Nature and the vital resources she provides
- Democracy
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