Gratitude

To tell you the truth, (and why would I do differently?); I have been a little down recently (the past year or so, funny how time morphs after age forty). Various things not worth listing, but I have been searching for a way to get out of a slump. A friend, Sara, has been using her Facebook status as a Gratitude project landing place. Post three things you are grateful for; thirty consecutive days; no repeats. Well, this has been refreshing. And it has got me to thinking about what I am grateful for. Since I do most of my writing in my head I just walk around thinking, "I am grateful for my children, my health, my Breezecatcher, rain, my parents, my home, all my aches and pains that let me know I am alive..."

I didn't know if I wanted to be a copy cat and create my Gratitude project on my Facebook, but I was certainly tempted. Using my finely honed procrastination skills, I rationalized that I could wait until August to begin my Gratitude project. I would do it for the calendar month. Yet I was still not committed to the idea.

I checked out the book, The Happiness Project, from the library. I got up this morning around 1:30 a.m. and begin flipping through this book. I didn't realize until then it was divided into activities by month. I go to August and there it is, "keep a gratitude journal." I am taking this as a sign.