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How Grateful Am I for My Ability to Write All the Things?
To me, writing is easy — and I am deeply grateful for this. But that’s not so for everyone.
It is easy to get caught up in recognizing what we don’t have.
Hell, entire industries exist trying to sell us what we don’t have by convincing us of needs we were unaware of. It’s not hard to find yourself feeling lacking because you don’t have the doohickey that will make you and your life amazing.
This often gets focused on the material. But the immaterial is what we live with most. All kinds of things that we cannot see, touch, or otherwise experience with 5 of our 6 senses make us up.
While it’s easy to look to, at, and for the material when it comes to being grateful, the immaterial can be equally — if not more — important.
The intangible is often so seemingly small that it’s easy to disregard. Like breathing. Being (hopefully) healthy. Having a roof over your head. Owning a device on which you can read articles like this one.
This is still about things. It’s also possible — and equally empowering — to be grateful for talents, skills, abilities, and personality traits.
