Gratitude is a hot topic. It’s "a thing". It needs to be talked about and we lack it, in general, as a culture, but when things become hot topics, they lose their weight for me.
What I’m realizing now, is that gratitude is powerful. Stirring it up and focusing on it, can change the course of your day. If you do it day after day, it can change your life.
The flip side is, when you are dealing with life, and if it’s at all heavy, sometimes this stirring it up and focus is beyond difficult.
In this new world of self help and kale salads, we can beat ourselves up over so much. I’ve decided that gratitude won’t be one of them this year. If I can’t write out 10 things in a cute leather bound journal while sipping organic herbal tea, I’m still a decent human. I can even still be grateful.
This holiday season I’m taking it one day at a time. Slowly but surely feeling all the feelings. And I plan on doing it my way. I will ask for help from a few trusted people when needed, but I will not be doing it by anyone else’s standards.
This is new for me. As I stumble through big life stuff, I’m being forced to try to do things differently. I’m being hit with a little humble pie. Sort of smacked in the face! I like that visual.
I spent a lot of years thinking I had things figured out. I was dead wrong. Listen, I was living my truth, I was thinking I was cool, but I was in a bubble. Bubbles burst sometimes. And then we see a little more clearly.
So I don’t know shit. I know we are all just trying to figure it out. Sometimes it’s in a pretty leather bound journal and sometimes it’s while we’re elbow deep in life.
So feel your gratitude. Or don’t. But enjoy some damn stuffing!
Love, Liz
