Today I am grateful for coffee. On the days when my personality doesn't want to be near itself, coffee helps lubricate my interactions with the world. Thank you coffee!
Before I began this gratitude experment over a year ago I was completely unhappy and dissatisfied with life. A friend challenged me to come up with three things every day for five days that I was grateful for. I thought the challenge would be impossible. How was I supposed to come up with THREE things one day let alone five days? I also thought that being grateful was simply learning to settle with unfortunate circumstances.
I was so very wrong. By the third day of the experiment I hadn't run out of things to be grateful for. In fact, I was having trouble choosing which three would get the spotlight that day. Over a year later I still have too many things I am grateful for to list in one day and that happens everyday. Even the days that aren't going my way. A year later I am happy and exceedingly blessed and instead of settling, I've started doing what makes me happy. Doing this group is one of those things. I am not a social person but I am a lover of people and an advocate for positive living.
So today, I am grateful for those first five days of the gratitude experiment. Without which I would be in emotional and mental poverty.
