My younger self would be AMAZED that I found a career where I have a regular work schedule, weekends off, paid holidays, and don't have to put in a request to ever get more than one day off in a row.
I've always enjoyed how useful my sense of humor is, particularly as a coping mechanism. With a brand new cancer diagnosis it's jumped from useful to mandatory. I know so many people who would fall to pieces. Plenty of my medical team members have been concerned that I haven't been angry. Then they realize I enjoy gallows and twisted comedy just like they do. It will be one of the most important tools I have.
I'm grateful for the significant ways in which I'm able to create the life that I want, and also able to reflect on and figure out what that life looks like in the first place.
(I don't mean this in some manifest-good-things, positive-thinking, prosperity-gospel kind of way. I mean luck, privilege, self-awareness, and amazing friends and family.)
Building on that, I'm grateful to see those things as blessings, and also to see where I can help close the luck and privilege gap. It's a wound in our society. I don't like looking at it, it doesn't feel good, but it feels right to acknowledge the reality and try to shift it.
A common/mundane thing that I'm grateful for: Wikipedia.
When I was a kid I thought flying cars would be the norm; however, having immediate access to a FREE encyclopedia that contains anything from Mesopotamian history to summaries of Punky Brewster episodes *and* fits in the palm of your hand?
Not as exciting as a flying Corvette, but probably a lot more practical (and safer).
My younger self would be AMAZED that I found a career where I have a regular work schedule, weekends off, paid holidays, and don't have to put in a request to ever get more than one day off in a row.
I've always enjoyed how useful my sense of humor is, particularly as a coping mechanism. With a brand new cancer diagnosis it's jumped from useful to mandatory. I know so many people who would fall to pieces. Plenty of my medical team members have been concerned that I haven't been angry. Then they realize I enjoy gallows and twisted comedy just like they do. It will be one of the most important tools I have.
I'm grateful for the significant ways in which I'm able to create the life that I want, and also able to reflect on and figure out what that life looks like in the first place.
(I don't mean this in some manifest-good-things, positive-thinking, prosperity-gospel kind of way. I mean luck, privilege, self-awareness, and amazing friends and family.)
Building on that, I'm grateful to see those things as blessings, and also to see where I can help close the luck and privilege gap. It's a wound in our society. I don't like looking at it, it doesn't feel good, but it feels right to acknowledge the reality and try to shift it.
A common/mundane thing that I'm grateful for: Wikipedia.
When I was a kid I thought flying cars would be the norm; however, having immediate access to a FREE encyclopedia that contains anything from Mesopotamian history to summaries of Punky Brewster episodes *and* fits in the palm of your hand?
Not as exciting as a flying Corvette, but probably a lot more practical (and safer).