"Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude."
Nick Vujicic
I woke up today feeling more grateful than I usually do. I was sitting on the couch with my son watching Curious George, drinking my overly creamer-induced coffee, and thought I am so lucky. I may not have the big house I thought I would; I might not have found an agent or a publisher as of right now; I do not have the 4 kids I always dreamed of having; I am not the at-home mom I always wanted to be....
but that is life. I am almost 40 so I will never have four of my own children, but who knows what the future might hold. My house is small and still looks the decade it was built (always 1970s!) but every day when I pull up in my driveway, I think to myself how much I just love it. And I might not be a bestselling author nor have an agent to call my very own, but who knows what life will bring me in the months and years to come.
The point I am making is that I am thankful:
The point I am making is that I am thankful:
- Thankful for my family and friends.
- Thankful for my son (I might just have one child, but he is a truly amazing one!).
- Thankful for my husband that puts up my weird personality and my constant speech issues that come out of nowhere (last weekend I said cWazy instead of crazy and I burst into a fit of giggles of which I couldn't control. Yep....a 14-year-old in an almost 40 yr old woman's body.)
- Thankful that I am still following my dream of writing no matter what.
- Thankful that I have a job that challenges my every being every single day, yet leaves me feeling fulfilled at the same time.
- Even though I miss some of my friends every single day...especially at odd points of the day like when I check my email and it is full of everything but what I want to see....or listening to Guns N' Roses and remembering stupid conversations that actually mean a lot to me....or when I want to make a silly face yet my old coworker isn't around to laugh with....or at lunch wanting a bout of laughter like in the old days....or really anytime...I am so very thankful that I have those memories. I am such a hermit at times and so those moments mean more than they might to another.
- AND extra thankful for the weekends where I can spend quality time with my son and seeing the beauty all around us.
Disclaimer: Yeah, sorry for being such a sap today. Wow! What can I say other than I guess the next post will need to be crazy, extra dark because the sappiness has been expelled as of right now! :)