Gratefulness Challenge Day 12

What a Tuesday! Lots of catching up from taking Monday off, but worth the extra busy day. It was great to actually venture out of the house after hiding away for 24 hours. Also caused the things I chose to talk about today for my Gratefulness Challenge to be more related to the outside world and how I choose to interact with it than yesterday, which was much more focused on internal appreciation.

1. Options: The reason I decided to write about options is because I think I began and then deleted a description of about five different things while writing todays post. This made me think of just how many options we have in life. Not only do I have a plethora of things to be thankful for from the past 24 hours (that in itself is pretty phenomenal) but I also have billions of other options presented to me on a daily basis.

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Gratefulness Challenge Day 9

So today’s Gratefulness Challenge post is going to be short and sweet. Not because I’m any less grateful than usual. Sometimes it just doesn’t take a lot to get the point across.

1. Sleep: Never have I been so happy to see my bed as when I got home last night. Sleep is so precious in my life right now and I was exhausted. Getting to drift off into slumber and then magically wake up refreshed and ready to greet the day is so wonderful! It’s as if the simple act of shutting your eyes and then opening them again is able to make you see the world in an entirely new light.

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